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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The Lenape Indians or the Dutch?
Harlem isnt named after a place in Africa.....
AOCs district.
No, the event was in Harlem which is not in her gerrymandered district.
Ahhhhhh. Can’t have “The MAN gentrifying their nabes”! Most of them leftist, WHITE hipsters.
Pass the popcorn.
there was no ‘brown’ community 30 years ago, was there? It seems more an artificial construct that has been and will continue to be to the detriment of American-heritage black folk, whose relevancy is getting lost in the sea of immigrants who do not share the American experience.
oh yeah, I forgot...”and we don’t want the irish”
hey...how’d you do that?
Heh heh... pretty neat, eh? Check your FReepmail.
It's similar to Silence of Lambs: What do you covet? you covet what's near.
With the left it's 'what's something good to accuse your enemy of since you can't fight on the merits?' ... what's near-at-mind, what comes up first.
I’ll make him glad with my preventative measure — Brooklyn is way at the bottom of my list of places I would want to live in the United States. Indiana is fine, thanks.
Put 'em back.....the way they was. 🎶
... or for Puerto Ricans to to return to that benighted island.
Dogpatch, USA
:-)
Truth be told....MANY hard working NYers have left the state for places like....Dogpatch USA.
He’s perfectly fine with Middle Easterners and Central Americans moving in, to take their place, I’m sure.
I wonder if Eric also includes newly arrived illegals. They’re taking jobs that locals used to do.
When I left the NYC area over 30 years ago:
You can go to Hell, I will go to Texas!
Haarlem, Holland
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it, I can't say.
People just liked it better that way.
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