Posted on 08/02/2026 4:34:30 PM PDT by Words Matter
In this new video, Victor Davis Hanson dismantles New York City Mayor Mamdani’s divisive Fourth of July speech, exposing the glaring hypocrisy of a multi-millionaire bicoastal elite lecturing the working class on systemic exclusion. Hanson pulls back the curtain on how his successes completely undermine his tribalist narrative. Don’t miss it.
Victor, let's take the most controversial one that's gotten some attention, though I don't know how widespread this is, and this is New York City Mayor Mandami's prepared remarks for the 4th of July. And here, if I just bear with me, here's what he said.
Um -- I'm looking at the text while you read.
[Mamdani:]
"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest," etc. etc.
And he talks about asylum and the persecuted Mandami. I know what you mean by people not having, because of the color of their skin. I mean, we had a president, poor guy, he had to be president, Barack Obama, for eight whole years. And then he got he left office.
And you know what? Mandami?
He's only worth 100 million bucks. That is so racist.
And he has four mansions. What?
Why can't he have six?
Why not seven?
And then, you know, look at the NBA. LeBron James, poor guy. He's so underpaid. Guy is worth 10 billion. He's only worth a billion dollars.
And I don't know, you should know about race Mandami, because you tried to gain the system. Why did you say you were an African-American when you applied to Colombia a few years ago?
Was it because African-Ameans are systematically discriminated like you just said? So then, therefore, you decided to show your solidarity with African-Americans by lying that you were one, so that you would ensure you would not get into Colombia. The fact you didn't get into Colombia wasn't because you weren't African-American. It's because they lied that you you lied and they found out you weren't African-American. So if you think that people of color are being discriminated, then why do you keep identifying as a person of color? Why do you think that you got so much intention? because you were really the first Indian American mayor and you went to town with that.
And you know another thing what he said was: "the right" belongs to America... "they will tell you."
I don't know who says that Jack, but he says:
"belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal."
Thus spoke the coloner, settler colonialist from Uganda where the Indian community, which is not native or indigenous, believe me, to Uganda, came to Uganda as colonial settlers and now controls 60% of the GDP of that country and they comprise one Mandami 1%.
You were the 1% and no sooner did you leave the 1% as a settler colonialist than you came in as, I don't know, you said you were a visitor, maybe you would use your own Marxist terminology you came in as more settler colonialist to another country. And what happened there, your father was an endowed professor at Colombia instantaneously. And your mother was a heavily subsidized filmmaker who was very critical of her host movie in those movies.
And guess who her chief funder was? Millions and millions of dollars from Qatar, one of the most illiberal places in the world.
And then you were a product of that privilege. And you belong to, I've said this before, you belong to the wealthiest, richest, most privileged of all ethnic minorities in America, the Indian-American community,whose per capita income is soarses above so-called white people. And so you say that you're exploited.
And he said, you know, another thing that really got me.
The rest of us, he said, "we should be grateful. Grateful."
Uh, I think all we ask is you come legally and we don't have 20 to 30 million people who are here illegally.
And the other thing all we ask is that you show some gratitude so that if you're Ilhan Omar you don't compare us negatively as a dictatorship, which we're not, to Somalia which it is in which her father was a member of a genocidal dictatorship as were a lot of the refugees who fled to Minnesota.
That's an untold story, Jack. Why we let in so many people who were connected with the Siad Berry dictatorship in Somalia? He we let in his son reportedly. He's here -' in Columbus, Ohio.
So this whole idea that this beloved community came over as refugees being oppressed is not the story.
In many, not all, but many cases they were part of what the Marxists call the victimizer oppressor binary and then they would have stayed there and enjoyed their privilege except Siad Barre killed so many people, over 200,000 in a civil war that he lost power and when he lost power his regime collapsed and the people who had been dealt an injustice wanted their revenge, and started to go after the Siad Barre people who then fled and the gracious America for some reason allowed them to come in and now they are saying that we are 'racist' and show we're 'hostile' to people of Color.
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Pearl. Every word.
Hans Gruber Dammami is a real African limb hanger screwball.
If that’s supposed to be a translation of something Victor Davis Hanson said on tape, it’s a bad job - REALLY bad. VDH would NEVER put sentences together like that and whoever put this to paper did a dishonor to what really must have been said or written. All meaning of what the article is supposed to be about was lost. It can’t be either VDH or Jamie Glasgov’s writing....
Much better - thank you....the way it should have been presented to begin with.
.......Siad Barre people who then fled and the gracious America for some reason allowed them to come in and now they are saying that we are ‘racist’ and show we’re ‘hostile’ to people of Color......
......America.... allowed them to come in—by the facilitation of Lutheran Social Services!
Sadly
Thanks
“The Dangerous Lie NYC Mayor Mamdani Just Told America NYC mayor exposed”
Does it count as being exposed if those who need to know don’t get the information? (Like the tree falling in the woods scenario.)
BTTT
Time has come for all these college edjumacated, fancy book learnin’ little Commies to be put to the wall.
For real.
This is what they intend to do to us. They shot and tried to kill our president.
They killed Charlie Kirk. They assault us with words and actions every single day.
If the Communists, because that’s what they are, win the midterms what they do to conservatives and the President will be a preview of what they’ll do to us if they take The White House.
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