Black Star News Editorial
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Today, is the day when we will find out how badly New Yorkers want change, in New York City, as voters go to the polls to elect a new mayor. Will New Yorkers “play it safe” as some—including the economic elites—are pleading for by voting for a man who resigned as governor in the wake of multiple accusations of sexual impropriety against women?
Or will New York City vote for the candidate whose fresh people-centered ideas are a repudiation of hatemongers Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo?
As the race for the New York City Mayoralty escalated so too has the racism and fearmongering against African-born Muslim Zohran Mamdani. The current scandal-plagued Mayor Eric Adams and disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo have been pushing the fear card that Mamdani can’t be trusted to be mayor of New York City, because Mamdani wants the rich to pay their fair share of taxes, in a city of economic exploitation, where life is unaffordable for most New Yorkers.
The elections of Adams and Cuomo (and their failed stale policies) as mayor and governor, is an indication of just how desperately we need real change.
Eric Adams used Black and Latino voters to become mayor—before proceeding to betray our interests, while working to push the backward policing policies of the bloated NYPD and enriching himself and his cronies. Besides all the scandals, recent months have showed us just how morally vacuous Adams is.
A few months ago, Adams was denouncing Cuomo. But then he endorses Cuomo who he called “a snake.”
Adams obviously has received a nice payday from the filthy rich Wall Street folks who want economic inequality in New York City to continue. And since Cuomo is their last hope to stop Mamdani, they bought Adams out, and likely required him to endorse Cuomo. Moreover, Adams is expected to get a cushy job, perhaps from Donald Trump, possibly as an ambassador, where he can grift while traveling internationally.
We should ask ourselves this as well: what other crooked deals were made between Trump, Adams, and Cuomo? Trump has endorsed Cuomo.
Governor Cuomo is so desperate to return to political relevance that he has waded neck-deep into racist, anti-Muslim, fearmongering taking a page out of Trump’s playbook. Let’s examine some of this, along with Cuomo’s duplicitous hypocrisy.
During a recent Fox News interview, Cuomo talked about Mamdani being a dual citizen of both America, and Uganda where Mamdani was born. Cuomo injected this while saying that Mamdani doesn’t understand “the New York culture, the New York values.” A few days later, Cuomo was asked about this, during an ABC News interview, and he answered saying, “You can be a New Yorker and not understand New Yorkers, right? He has been very divisive through this campaign. He has said things that are highly inflammatory. And that’s not the New York way. Because you have the diversity that we have [in New York], you have to be very careful as a leader, not to inflame division.”
First of all, why did Cuomo find it necessary to mention Mamdani’s dual citizenship? Many Americans have dual citizenship—especially, rich white people, like those Cuomo certainly breaks bread with.
Of course, in this case, Mamdani was born in Africa, and is a Brown Muslim man. Cuomo is insinuating here that Mamdani’s loyalty is divided because of this. But does Cuomo feel the same way about the rich white people, who have dual citizenship, who are undoubtedly funding his smelly smear campaign?
Cuomo also exposed himself when he chuckled after right-wing talk-show host Sid Rosenberg made the racist comment that Mamdani would cheer on another 9-11 attack, before Cuomo replied, “That’s another problem.”
And when Cuomo falsely says Mamdani has been “divisive” he is talking about nothing else than Mamdani’s criticisms of the Netanyahu government of Israel—and its genocide program against Palestinians, in Gaza. We should all be “divisive” when mass murder is being committed, while politicians remain silent because of the blood-money in their bank accounts.
We should also ask Cuomo this: if Mamdani is so “divisive” why did the diverse voters of New York City reject Cuomo during the primary, and why is he about to lose again to Mamdani? Are the diverse voters of New York City dumb, Mr. Cuomo?
Cuomo is the one using divisive tactics purely for political gain. And Andrew Cuomo seems poised to make history, in a bad way, when he is again beaten by the next Mayor of New York City Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
