"If you think I'm going to condemn that, you're crazy! Ah, here's my limo."
Posted on 01/20/2020 6:49:59 PM PST by karpov
He has a dream — of leading a New York City that is home to far fewer Midwesterners.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams — the leading fundraiser in the 2021 mayoral race — used Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday to deliver an inflammatory broadside against newcomers from the nation’s heartland.
“Go back to Iowa, you go back to Ohio,” he said during a speech in Harlem.
“New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.”
Speaking at the National Action Network’s “King Day Celebration,” hosted by founder the Rev. Al Sharpton, Adams implicitly played the race card as he denounced gentrification by singling out two states, Iowa and Ohio, that are 91 and 82 percent white, respectively.
Adams also rattled off a litany of social crises — including drug abuse and gun violence — that he said were ignored when they only affected the nation’s “black and brown community.”
He then declared himself “unapologetic” as he invoked the slain civil-rights icon, saying that “if you know the spirit and anything about Dr. King, he did not allow others to be comfortable while everyone else was living in horrific conditions.”
Adams — who raked in $437,099 in political contributions during the past six months, with major donations from the real-estate industry — railed against what he called the “displacement of the people who made this city.”
“You were here before Starbucks,” he told a crowd of about 300 who greeted his remarks with cheers and applause.
“You were here before others came and decided they wanted to be part of this city.”
Adams referred to the transplants as “folks who [are] not only hijacking your apartments and displacing your living arrangements, they displace your conversation
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AOCs district.
What would happen to a politician who told blacks to go back to Georgia?
They don’t want Americans but they’ll welcome illegals no questions asked. Got it.
Trump said “go back” (to your districts)
And all hell broke loose.
But this cat meant it. And. ?
Nothing will happen to him. He’s a Democrat.
I dont want em to go back to georgia.
I want em to go back to africa if this place is so awful.
The Lenape Indians or the Dutch?
Southerners to Leftist Yankees who have moved down here in droves “y’all go back to where you came from......”
I imagine most of the whites in his district are looking to eventually get out - to someplace like Iowa.
Good question to ax.
We here in western Joisey would like to send the new Yawkers back to new Yawk.
What...no go back to Mexico? El salvador? Etc.? Hmmm....
"If you think I'm going to condemn that, you're crazy! Ah, here's my limo."
What a freakin’ racist.
democrats George Wallace, Lestor Maddox and Robert Byrd couldn’t be more proud.
...olks who [are] not only hijacking your apartments and displacing your living arrangements...
Hey, New Yawk - the next time you get your horse shot out from under you, the rest of us aren’t going to take it so personally.
The Dutch.
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