ERIC ADAMS, Brooklyn Borough President
“Go back to Iowa, you go back to Ohio. New York City belongs to the people that were here and made New York City what it is,” Adams said at an anti-gentrification rally in Harlem last January.
WHY IT’S DUMB: Not many people move here from Iowa or Ohio. But blacks comprise just 8.4 percent and 14.3 percent, respectively, of those states’ populations. As The Post reported, Adams played the race card in using those states as code for white gentrifiers. Adams isn’t anti-white, but he shamefully borrowed from Al Sharpton’s notorious “white interlopers” rhetoric of the 1980s to fire up a Harlem crowd.