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.
Why is it so important for us to be governed by a combination of non-whites, non-white males, and non-heterosexuals?
They should be more like Baltimore, or Newark or East St Louis?
Because diversity.
I thought the goal was to be colorblind. I guess that’s passe’ now.
White bad.
Got it.
I guess it’s not OK to be white, then.
Maybe new York can get David Dinkins back as mayor?
“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.
Dinkins last chance at being mayor was in 1993. Even if he ran again in 1997, he would have lost to Giuliani again.
Not important parasites always whine it’s their agenda that is failing.
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?
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.
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.
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!
#CaucasianLivesMatter!
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