Posted on 06/19/2022 5:41:40 PM PDT by thegagline
New York City needs to “do better” in preventing black residents from being driven out of their neighborhoods, Mayor Eric Adams said on Sunday, during an address marking the Juneteenth holiday.
Speaking in Central Park, Adams compared the modern-day uprooting of people of color from neighborhoods across the US — including the five boroughs — to slavery.
“When I was in Ghana last year, [I] saw how families were displaced, torn apart and brought over to America through slavery in the hulls of the ships, living in dungeons, spending months and months living in their human waste, having their babies taken from them, and saw them dispersed and displaced,” he said.
“That’s no different here,” Adams told the crowd at the Central Park Conservancy’s Juneteenth Celebration.
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Adams, New York City’s second black mayor, noted that black Americans have in recent decades been forced out of neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta — communities he lamented had been met with “destruction.”
“Starting anew over and over again, and we wonder why we see some of the crises that we’re facing in black in brown communities,” he said. “Every time they were able to have a foothold, they were displaced again. As soon as you started to build something, it was torn apart.”
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So f’ing tired of whining blacks.
Don’t like it here, go back to Africa.
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Embrace the suck, NYers: This is what you asked for.
Harlem—No whites allowed.
Meet the new mayor. Same as the old mayor.
hows the crime rate, eric?
Some blacks will never willingly assimilate. Or perhaps they prefer to “unassimilate”.
Asking such a question is racist!
Asking such a question is racist!
You have no foothold, you only have what the government is willing to give you for your votes. As soon a a big developer and dem donor wants what you think is you foothold they just take it.
Stupid has consequences.
A slave to typical Black leftist / ghetto / urban legend / “thinking”, and all their illogical beliefs.
truth is, everyone else has been forced out by the violence by a certain group....and it is only going to get worse.....
Adams, New York City’s second black mayor, noted that black Americans have in recent decades been forced out of neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta — communities he lamented had been met with “destruction.”
On the flip side, my aunt was forced out of Compton, CA back in the mid 60s (by people breaking into her house and throwing rocks through the windows).
It seems like Juneteenth has become a celebration of division.
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