Posted on 06/20/2021 1:16:46 PM PDT by karpov
Eric Adams ripped his mayoral race rivals Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia for campaigning together on Juneteenth — which he says represented a broadside against him, a black man.
On the holiday Saturday, Yang told supporters to rank Garcia, the former sanitation commissioner, second on ranked-choice ballots — a maneuver the front-running Brooklyn borough president said was offensive.
“That last-minute attempt to derail me on June 19! That is when they did that. While we were celebrating liberation and freedom from enslavement, they sent a message, and I thought it was the wrong message,” Adams said outside St. George’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.
“In a year with Black Lives Matters marches, when people talk about inequality, where people are talking about how do we lift up black and brown people in the city as well as all New Yorkers, that was their symbol on June 19, [on the day of] the federal holiday that was put in place,” Adams went on. “So I have a problem with that.”
Yang’s campaign fired back, calling Adams’ comments on the former businessman’s partnership with Garcia “wacky.”
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I would like to see the Declaration of Independence that these slaves wrote and signed..on June 19th, can anyone help me find a copy to keep the record straight?
“If you give a mouse a cookie” should be required reading for politicians
is Adams the lesser of evils?
Said from his house in Jersey City!
No
No. You don’t deserve any special treatment just because Joe Biden decides to pander for black votes in this way.
The fact that you even think you need special treatment, or protection from fair criticism, means you are not the man for the job.
Bkmk
There literally is no even halfway decent candidate for NYC mayor. There are some who suck slightly less than the rest. Adams and Yang would be in that group, but they still suck hard.
And Adams wouldn’t do the exact same thing to them on July 4? Memorial day? Father’s day?
Right...
More like the lesser of two evils.
Geez people just STFU.
I’m done with racism and diversity. It’s all meaningless
No! not on my holy JOONTEEF!
This June 19 garbage is so tiresome.
Three Democrats walk into a bar in NYC. Which one uses the race card first?
You could always instead celebrate the execution of the Rosenbergs, on the 19th of June, 1953.
stop the anti-Asian hate, Eric.
Looks like NONE of the NYC mayoral candidates are normal or nice people. They all have slimy commie agendas. So glad I got outta there!
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
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