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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams tells new New Yorkers ‘go back to Iowa’
New York Post ^
| January 20, 2020
| Olivia Bensimon, Khristina Narizhnaya and Bruce Golding
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 Mondays Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday to deliver an inflammatory broadside against newcomers from the nations 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 Networks 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 nations 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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TOPICS: US: Iowa; US: New York; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; blackkk; blackracism; brooklyn; brucegolding; ericadams; gentrification; harlem; iowa; jerseycity; joanterrellpaige; khristinanarizhnaya; nationalactionnetwrk; newjersey; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkers; newyorkpost; nyc; oliviabensimon; racecard; starbucks
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Productive whites and Asians pay for the social services consumed by Adams' constituents.
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:49:59 PM PST
by
karpov
To: karpov
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:51:05 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: karpov
What would happen to a politician who told blacks to go back to Georgia?
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:52:29 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: 2banana
They dont want Americans but theyll welcome illegals no questions asked. Got it.
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:53:34 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: karpov
"New York City belongs to the people that was here...." Let me guess......
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:54:35 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: karpov
Trump said go back (to your districts)
And all hell broke loose.
But this cat meant it. And. ?
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:55:24 PM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower Ciaramella. PASS IT ON)
To: A_Former_Democrat
Nothing will happen to him. Hes a Democrat.
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posted on
01/20/2020 6:56:50 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: 2banana
I dont want em to go back to georgia.
I want em to go back to africa if this place is so awful.
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:00:08 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: karpov
New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is. The Lenape Indians or the Dutch?
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:00:21 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
To: karpov
Southerners to Leftist Yankees who have moved down here in droves “y’all go back to where you came from......”
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:01:56 PM PST
by
FLT-bird
To: karpov
I imagine most of the whites in his district are looking to eventually get out - to someplace like Iowa.
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:03:07 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: 2banana
To: karpov
We here in western Joisey would like to send the new Yawkers back to new Yawk.
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:08:04 PM PST
by
certrtwngnut
(4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
To: karpov
What...no go back to Mexico? El salvador? Etc.? Hmmm....
To: karpov
“New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.”
The Irish ?
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:08:18 PM PST
by
stylin19a
((2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever))
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"If you think I'm going to condemn that, you're crazy! Ah, here's my limo."
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:08:58 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: karpov
What a freakin’ racist.
democrats George Wallace, Lestor Maddox and Robert Byrd couldn’t be more proud.
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:09:18 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
...olks who [are] not only hijacking your apartments and displacing your living arrangements...
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:10:45 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: karpov
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.
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:11:10 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
To: stylin19a
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posted on
01/20/2020 7:11:55 PM PST
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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