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New York’s Leadership is Mostly White. That’s Roiling the Speaker’s Race.
The New York Times ^ | November 7, 2017 | Shane Goldmacher

Posted on 11/07/2017 8:54:35 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

Rarely is the question asked: Is New York ready for a white male political leader?

But with a white man widely expected to be re-elected as mayor (Bill de Blasio), a white man as governor (Andrew M. Cuomo), a white man as attorney general (Eric T. Schneiderman), and white men as city and state comptroller (Scott M. Stringer and Thomas P. DiNapoli), race has emerged as a flash point in the elbows-out battle to lead the City Council for the next four years.

The speakership contest, for arguably the second most powerful elected post in city government, has raged behind the scenes for months, with eight men competing to replace the current speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito. Early conventional wisdom congealed over the summer that two councilmen from Manhattan, Corey Johnson and Mark Levine, had emerged as the front-runners.

Both are white — prompting a backlash among some influential black and Latino city leaders.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: identitypolitics; nationalism; newyork; nyc; nyt; race; racism; white; whiteman; whites

1 posted on 11/07/2017 8:54:35 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Why is it so important for us to be governed by a combination of non-whites, non-white males, and non-heterosexuals?


2 posted on 11/07/2017 8:56:07 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

They should be more like Baltimore, or Newark or East St Louis?


3 posted on 11/07/2017 8:57:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Because diversity.


4 posted on 11/07/2017 8:57:37 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I thought the goal was to be colorblind. I guess that’s passe’ now.


5 posted on 11/07/2017 9:00:42 AM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

White bad.

Got it.


6 posted on 11/07/2017 9:01:50 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Genoa

I guess it’s not OK to be white, then.


7 posted on 11/07/2017 9:07:34 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Maybe new York can get David Dinkins back as mayor?


8 posted on 11/07/2017 9:12:18 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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9 posted on 11/07/2017 9:14:09 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Why is it so important for us to be governed by a combination of non-whites, non-white males, and non-heterosexuals?”

Because it is an acceptable excuse to discriminate against normal white men who may be better qualified than women, abnormals or minorities.


10 posted on 11/07/2017 9:18:45 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: subterfuge

Dinkins last chance at being mayor was in 1993. Even if he ran again in 1997, he would have lost to Giuliani again.


11 posted on 11/07/2017 9:21:44 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Not important parasites always whine it’s their agenda that is failing.


12 posted on 11/07/2017 9:36:38 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

As I recall, Dinkins left a hell of a mess for Rudy to clean up. And didn’t Dinkins get thrown out of office for some corruption?


13 posted on 11/07/2017 9:48:23 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Because liberals focused on diversity want people to identify only by their minority traits. Ergo, only an official that shares the same minority traits can’t possibly understand or identify with the constituent. It is a tactic of disregarding the commonality of folks to accentuate their differentness that sustains the Democrat Party. They needn’t worry about the needs of individuals so long as they get people to identify as minorities and then find ways to throw bones at the minority group as a whole.


14 posted on 11/07/2017 9:52:44 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: caseinpoint

Correction: Only an official that shares the same minority traits can possibly . . .

Correction: Maybe the word differentness doesn’t exist but I think it is more expressive than using differences, imo.


15 posted on 11/07/2017 9:55:07 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

NYT: your obsession with surface characteristics of people is bordering on neurotic. Also, anyone who would write the words “ race has emerged as a flash point in the elbows-out battle “ in incompetent to write anything more complicated than a shopping list.
NO ONE THE F*CK CARES about this black/white $hit!


16 posted on 11/07/2017 10:59:33 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

#CaucasianLivesMatter!


17 posted on 11/07/2017 11:02:26 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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