You’re right. I know a lot of NY’ers and many are libs or even hard-core leftists. They complain about many things, but simply can’t lose their world-view. They cling to it like a life-raft. They best I can come up with is that they permanently live in a state of deep cognitive dissonance.
They should be honored to be the first white people to pay reparations—you can’t get more virtuous than that!