New York City dwellers can expect another big boost in their taxes if yet another giveaway backed by Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is approved.
The latest scheme from the red Mayor: reparations for slavery.
During an interview with far-left “journalist” Charles Blow for The Root, a website that provides “Black News, Opinions, Politics and Culture,” Mamdani backed paying reparations to blacks who were never slaves.
Legacy Must Be Repaired
The interview was more of a tongue bath than a hard-hitting back-and-forth meant to put the close-to-communist mayor in the hot seat. Blow’s first question: “You have been mayor for a little over 200 days. … What campaign promise so far are you proudest of already accomplishing?”
That isn’t exactly what Blow might ask President Donald Trump. But in any event, the former New York Times columnist read back to Mamdani his campaign’s statement on reparations, a leftist obsession making headway in California, where slavery was illegal.
“When you were running for mayor, you submitted a written statement to a reparations convening that read in part, ‘New York City participated actively in the slave trade and furthered its legacy through racist institutions, policies, and laws. The city should reconcile and repair this legacy of slavery, stolen wealth, and discrimination,’” Blow said: