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What a beautiful message of inclusion on MLK day.
Adams has always been a tool.
Folks feel excluded in many ways by those who arrive with Christopher Columbus attitudes. Even though it isn't getting headlines note Espaillat's comments as well.
Those who arrive vote for AOR and want bicycles all over the place need to be aware that their attempts to hijack the process is leading to a backlash from the same people of color who they pretend to love.
And MLK wasn't the Santa Claus that some insist. He was very much about the excluded being included and the hypocrisy of Northern White Liberals.
but I've met just about as much entitled, rude and condescending transplants as well..
These are the ones of whom he referred. It wasn't about folks from Iowa. It was those from Iowa WHO DO NOT FIT IN! Just as immigrants must learn the rules of a community to which they migrate so too must domestic migrants.
Do you prefer transplants that are unskilled and require financial assistance to live here?
We are losing the middle class like mad. We should be grateful that anyone who can hold a job and pay taxes wants to move to NY.
FACT. Immigrants account for under 40% of the population yet way more than 40% of the laborforce. They come here to WORK They are LESS likely to depend on social supports because they aren't entitled to such until they become citizens, or 10 years of residence, whichever comes first. If an immigrant wants welfare they go to Europe.
Now chat about the opioid immigrants from PA if you wish to discuss those who come to NYC for its welfare.
What Adams really is saying is that he wants all the whites and asians out of the city, especially the White Ethnics (particularly Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans) and Chinese Americans. Whites and Asians demand safe streets and safe schools, things progressives have a lot of problems with. But he can't say that so he says 'Iowa and Ohio blah blah blah...'
Adams woke vision is of lovely cities likes Detroit and Newark which lost their white ethnics years ago.
The Asians and white ethnics are just as impacted by rude transplants. Who do you think suffers when these people want to turn Manhattan into a bicycle run and bar cars from the city? The most under served parts of NYC are the far eastern corners. The first communities to be gentrified were the white ethnic ones.
I have no interest in gentrifying any of the ghetto areas he's referring to.
Harlem, Fort Greene and Bedstuy are where many of these folks go to. Local businesses shut down, transforming the cultures of these areas. Listen to Espaillat who no doubt has seen this in Washington Heights.
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