Chocolate City? New York City pols reveling in new Black Power surge

New York Daily News via MSN ^ | 07/17/2021 | Leonard Greene

[Olog-hai]

It’s not quite Chocolate City, but recent election wins by African-American politicians has the Big Apple on the verge of being the hub of black power.

Not only is the nation’s largest city poised to elect its second African-American mayor and its first African-American district attorney, New York City’s new (b)lack power surge has already made significant inroads in state government and may soon even shake up the halls of Congress.

And that’s just on the surface. Behind the scenes is a slate of party bosses, city council members and energized voters ready to usher in a new day for New York’s long-suffering (b)lack community.

“There is no question we are living in a golden age of (b)lack political power,” said Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), a freshman congressman from the Bronx, who is part of the city’s new political wave of influence. […]

What kind of leadership should New Yorkers expect from Adams? (Political consultant Charlie) King has two surprising words: Ed Koch. …

[dfwgator]

“Just got New York, I’m told”

[sport]

Good. They deserve each other. There is a lot money there that the politicians stole from the sheep. They can fight over who gets to steal it from there. The decent people need to move out and let be one big public housing project.

[bgill]

Here’s a crazy idea. How about we vote for who would do the best job rather than skin color and good hair.

[Roccus]

House mouse.

[Wallace T.]

Demographics are the key. The descendants of the Irish, Italian, Jewish, German, Greek, and other European immigrants from the 1840-1920 period are mostly gone from New York City, Staten Island partially excepted. Essentially, there are four major ethnic groups sharing NYC: American blacks, Hispanics, East Asians, and leftist and homosexual whites. Unlike Baltimore or Chicago, blacks are not a large enough group to become dominant. Neither are the white betas and Karens who dominate much of Manhattan and the gentrified areas of Brooklyn and Queens. I can foresee Asians and Hispanics allying against a black/white leftist coalition, if not in this election cycle, then in the near future.

[blam]

Oops.

You've waited to long to leave.

[Olog-hai]

This same Adams once switched to the GOP.

[Hieronymus]

Yes, but politics is the art of the possible Arguably the last truly principled unabashed conservative to run for Mayor in NYC was Bill Buckley (and I would argue that his principles had problems and there were certainly some positions that I would consider conservative that he was unabashedly against)-—and when asked what was the first thing he would do if he was elected mayor of NYC, he replied that he would demand a recount.

If you love NYC and think you could aid it as mayor by moving it away from the liberal cliff somewhat, doing what it takes to get in the driver’s seat makes sense.

I don’t care for NYC and have no illusions about being able to guide it—but realize that that may not be true of all people.

[Olog-hai]

Gaining office also is the goal of those that love power. Feigning a move away from the radical direction may gain the office, but then it becomes a tool for harm (cf. Bloomberg).

[Hieronymus]

Gaining office also is the goal of those that love power.

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This is a really big problem in a representative democracy.

We had a good start with Washington, but it has been somewhat downhill from there.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[dfwgator]

Finally!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I’ve got your back. :o)

[Olog-hai]

It was the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments that changed us from a republic to a democracy. Those implemented two planks of communism, by pulling power away from state governments and into DC and by centralizing a permanent tax on income.

As Woodrow Wilson said, “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same”. Therefore, the guarantor of liberty would be limited republican government by contrast; literally, democracy is a centralizing power that puts collective over individual and has proven so everywhere, and we’re seeing the endgame worldwide.

[Hieronymus]

Nice post.

If there was an anti-Rushmore, Wilson would certainly belong there along with FDR, Lincoln, and LBJ. I don’t know who I’d nominate for a fifth person.

[PhineasSpear]

So much for all the news about “gentrification” of black neighborhoods in NY.

[Olog-hai]

Lincoln? He’s on Rushmore, as is TR. Opus?

[Olog-hai]

Isn’t that white supremacy?

Have to laugh at Eric Adams’ recent claims about being opposed to socialism.

[Hieronymus]

Rushmore isn’t the Roman Martyrology. One can disagree with the choices while recognizing the good intentions.

Lincoln was dynamic, and had a big impact-—but that doesn’t mean he was good for keeping the Republic going the way it had been designed.

[Olog-hai]

The important thing about Lincoln was his story of repentance, which is one reason why God gave him the victory. Certain revanchist-minded self-appointed authorities do often omit that story.