{"id":189304,"date":"2026-04-08T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:49:13","slug":"mamdanis-racial-equity-plan-revives-the-lefts-dei-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189304\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani\u2019s \u2018Racial Equity\u2019 Plan Revives the Left\u2019s DEI Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on the campaign trail that he wanted to increase\u00a0taxes on richer, \u201cwhiter\u201d<\/a>\u00a0residents? It seems he meant what he said.<\/p>\n

That much should be obvious following New York Mamdani\u2019s announcement on Monday that he\u2019s going forward with a so-called\u00a0Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The plan released by the mayor\u2019s office says that \u201cNew York\u2019s history has been one of colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s striking that a Muslim man born to Indian parents in Uganda, who only became a U.S. citizen in 2018 and yet is now mayor of the nation\u2019s largest city, sees no irony in condemning New York\u2019s history of \u201ccolonization.\u201d But that\u2019s just how it is on the Left. Only some colonizers are the bad ones.<\/p>\n

According to the Gothamist<\/a>, Mamdani\u2019s racial equity plan aims to \u201cimprove pay equity in city roles, provide anti-racism training for city staff, and improve data collection across various demographics, among other goals.\u201d While the plan seems to be lacking in specific details about exactly how this racial equity is to be reached (likely on purpose as we shall soon see), it appears to be set on the cornerstone of \u201cantiracist\u201d doctrines associated with disgraced\u00a0intellectual Ibram X. Kendi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The released document states that \u201cit is important to acknowledge and understand that there are different forms of racism frequently interacting and functioning at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a tip off that the city will find few if any forms of overt discrimination that most Americans with common sense would think of as racism. And that\u2019s no good, as they see it.<\/p>\n

Instead, the plan targets \u201cpolicies and practices that create unequal outcomes, whether or not those institutions intend to do so (institutional), existing inequities that spread within a system of various institutions (systemic), as well as different systems that interact to perpetuate widespread racial inequality (structural).\u201d<\/p>\n

To put it simply, any racial disparity that exists for one of the groups the Left favors is defined as \u201cracism\u201d and therefore in need of rectifying through force of law.<\/p>\n

NYC\u2019s Chief Equity Officer Afua Atta-Mensah said while announcing the plan that the racial equity plan was born during the George Floyd era.<\/p>\n

NYC’s Chief Equity Officer Afua Atta-Menseh tout’s Mamdani’s “Racial Equity Plan,” born during George Floyd era while “bearing witness to brutality unfolding on our streets and on our screens,” to “confront institutional and systemic racism.” pic.twitter.com\/mS2p1HV8XQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

This should be old hat to anyone paying attention to American politics post-2020. Mamdani and friends<\/a> are simply rehashing the ideology that brought us the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement and all sorts of other insanity during the height of the Great Awokening. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So, the equity plan represents continuity rather than a break for Democrats. The madness is back. You get what you voted for, New York.<\/p>\n

While this represents a return to the DEI-centric nonsense that\u2019s the never-ending obsession of the Left\u2019s political and cultural elites, one can certainly find a positive angle to this story.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a serious pivot from not long ago that highlights just how much the country has changed in the last few years. It points to the serious impact the Trump administration has had on civil rights law.<\/p>\n

Despite the clear philosophical framework that leads to using discrimination in the name of fighting discrimination, the New York City equity plan is stripped all references to DEI.<\/p>\n

A report by the New York\u00a0publication City & State<\/a>\u00a0found that \u201cearlier drafts of the 375-page \u2018New York City Preliminary Racial Equity Plan\u2019 included explicit references to DEI and the city\u2019s goals of hiring more people of color, which the city Law Department flagged as risky due to President Donald Trump\u2019s ongoing crusade against \u2018woke\u2019 DEI policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In many cases, City & State reported, explicit DEI goals and quotas were removed from the public equity document. You can be sure that\u2019s because they know the plan will be scrutinized by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the Office of Civil Rights, took to X and said the plan appeared to be \u201cfishy\/illegal\u201d and plans to review it.<\/p>\n

Given her other work, I\u2019d say this is\u00a0no idle threat<\/a>. Much like how higher education has relentlessly and perniciously skirted laws banning affirmative action, left-wing governments aren\u2019t going to give up now that the law is working against them. There are some in the Trump administration, like Dhillon, who not only understand that reality but also know how to fight it.<\/p>\n

Democrats are quickly proving that their \u201caffordability\u201d pivot has been little more than rhetorical fluff. Or, more precisely, when the Left speaks about the issue of affordability it\u2019s not in the way that most voters think about it. When they retake power, they\u2019ll go right back to the well of racial and gender grievance under the guise of affordability.<\/p>\n

But the cultural and legal Overton window has shifted.<\/p>\n

This quotation in City & State by an anonymous city employee warmed my heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t the \u2018new era\u2019 we signed up for,\u201d the employee said about Mamdani\u2019s plan. \u201cOur neighbors are being taken off the streets, and the administration can\u2019t even say DEI in a racial equity plan. This administration should be leading the way, not preemptively cowering in fear of Donald Trump or others pushing his hateful fascist agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Womp womp.<\/p>\n

What was once accepted as inevitability has become a real battleground, even in places like New York City. The Left must now be more careful in the way it talks about and implements in many cases blatantly illegal DEI programs\u2014thanks to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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