NY Dems’ office ‘race’
Democratic pols from Buffalo to Brooklyn have made racist rhetoric about white people a pillar of their message to voters.
At the local, state and national level, New York’s left-wing officials without repercussion have decried that white people live in their neighborhoods, argued they should not be eligible for certain jobs and issued broad demonizing statements.
“Anti-whiteness is the fundamental premise of the left,” said Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald. “All that is needed to take out an institution or an individual is to publicly observe that that individual is white or that that institution — Western science, Western medicine, classical music, European art — has historically been majority white or may still be majority white today.
“[President] Biden routinely says that white people have an enduring problem with racism; we represent the dark soul of the US,” she told The Post.
Some, like City Councilman Charles Barron of East New York, Brooklyn, even boast about their anti-white bona fides.
“I have the distinct honor to be able to come before you and say I actually lost white population in my community,” he said at a June 2019 national summit on gentrification, while wearing a Mao suit, the Communist chair’s favored attire. “If you see . . . whites in my neighborhood, they’re passing through.”
Glenn Loury, an economist and professor at Brown University, who is black, said there is “a pernicious double standard.”
“I’m firmly convinced that backlash is coming,” he said. “People engaged in this casual white-bashing will rue the day when that sleeping giant is awakened.”
Here are the hateful highlights:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: AOC has used her powerful voice on Twitter to take on the issue of statues of white people in Washington, DC: “We have 100+ statues and portraits in the Capitol. Almost all of them are of white men. The erasure of women & BIPOC from American history is a feature of white supremacy.”
AOC (above, left) and white fiancé Riley Roberts produced a video in 2020 that covered “combating racism as a white person.”
City Comptroller Brad Lander: He often lambastes the voting patterns of white Americans. “It’s deeply depressing to live in a country where so many people vote for racist authoritarianism,” moaned Lander (center) as the 2020 presidential election results were being tallied.
City Council member Chi Ossé: The Brooklyn Democratic Socialist is among the chamber’s most prominent race-baiters. Ahead of the speaker election, Ossé (right) bluntly said a “cis white man” should not be considered for the job. Ossé also has chided the “incredibly white Animals Rights Movement” and criticized The New York Times for endorsing too many white congressmen. “Don’t trust white people with 0 friends of color in their circle,” he warned in May 2019.
City Council member Sandy Nurse: The Brooklyn lawmaker has warned about the violence of white people in sweeping terms. “White people are just outright murdering Black people with full impunity. We are headed for a very long summer of rage. #NoJusticeNoPeace,” she said in June 2020 after the death of a Black Lives Matter protester in Nebraska. “What more can actually be said? We have a national crisis of white men and boys massacring people across the country,” she tweeted in March 2021.
City Council member Lincoln Restler: In a July 2020 tweet, Restler, who is white, took issue with Justin Cohen, another white candidate who lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for an Assembly seat in Brooklyn’s BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood. “Most offensive was the white guy who moved into Bed-Stuy. Yes — Bed-Stuy, iconic home of Bk Black community — to run for assembly this year. At least he lost,” Restler wrote.
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani: The Ugandan-born Queens lawmaker went on a multitweet tirade complaining about white people winning too many honors at the 2015 Academy Awards.