{"id":105481,"date":"2026-01-20T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:44:13","slug":"how-many-racists-does-mayor-mamdani-mean-to-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105481\/","title":{"rendered":"How many racists does Mayor Mamdani mean to hire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to keep <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/15\/us-news\/mamdani-taps-new-chief-equity-officer-who-axes-social-media-after-admins-prior-missteps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Afua Atta-Mensah on as his chief equity officer,<\/a> he \u2014 and she \u2014 owe New Yorkers a whole host of honest, humble and convincing answers about the transparently racist social-media history City Hall tried to scrub.<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks to the busy bee(s) at \u00a0the New York Young Republicans Club <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/18\/us-news\/mamdani-chief-equity-officer-disparaged-liberal-white-women-in-now-deleted-x-posts-tax-them-to-the-white-meat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who made records of her X history before it got deleted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main problem isn\u2019t her regular use of \u201ccomrade\u201d for fellow ultra-lefties; that could easily be a kind of self-aware joking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the retweets or replies on posts complaining about white women.<\/p>\n<p>On a tweet griping \u201cwe don\u2019t talk about white liberal racism enough,\u201d Atta-Mensah replied: \u201cFacts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a thread following a post asking, \u201cWho\u2019s not police but FEELS like police to you?\u201d she reposted the reply, \u201cwhite women at nonprofit organizations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>She replied to \u201cA lot of y\u2019all are Amy Coopers to the Black women in your non-profits every day,\u201d a post comparing white women to \u201cCentral Park Karen\u201d Amy Cooper (who called the cops on a black birdwatcher), with, \u201cTHIS IS A WHOLE WORD!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One more wasn\u2019t just about white women:<\/p>\n<p>Another reply, to a post saying the show \u201cSuccession\u201d made the writer want to\u00a0\u201ctax these people to the white meat,\u201d she answered \u201cTax Them To The White Meat!!!\u201d \u2014 adding a hand-clapping emoji.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani is already standing by Cea \u201chomeownership is a weapon of white supremacy\u201d Weaver; looking to also brazen his way past Atta-Mensah\u2019s newly-revealed bile would send a pretty clear message that one kind of hate has a home in his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver pretty plainly still holds her odious views, only finding her phrasing \u201cregretful.\u201d Maybe Atta-Mensah can do bter.<\/p>\n<p>Surely, if she really means to do \u201cequity\u201d work, she\u2019ll outright disown her past words \u2014 pleading guilty to foolish posturing or ill-conceived venting or something.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t make the mayor fire anybody, nor force his aides to explain themselves \u2014 but eventually the public will notice his repeated refusal to even address his appointees\u2019 blatant racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to keep Afua Atta-Mensah on as his chief equity officer, he \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42273,302,304,9,11,10,49,51,50,299,3863,17534,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-105481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cea-weaver","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-racism","19":"tag-x-formerly-twitter","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}