{"id":194139,"date":"2026-04-12T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194139\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:40:38","slug":"mamdani-has-a-racial-equity-plan-to-inflict-pain-on-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194139\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani has a racial equity plan to inflict pain on New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York<\/a> is hemorrhaging jobs<\/a> and residents<\/a>, but instead of trying to make it an attractive place to do business, Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is pursuing his obsession with redistributing what wealth the city still has along racial lines. He\u2019s a socialist, which means, even 100 years after socialism<\/a> proved itself an economic, social, and democratic failure everywhere, that he is more impressed by ideological purity than by practical results.<\/p>\n

Mamdani released his administration\u2019s first \u201cRacial Equity Plan<\/a>\u201d this month, a 375-page document identifying more than 200 racial equity \u201cgoals and outcomes\u201d for the city\u2019s 45 agencies. These are to be pursued through 800 strategies and tracked by more than 600 indicators. You just know that anything requiring 800 strategies and 600 indicators is bound to find excuses for its eventual failure. But Mamdani promises that this \u201cwhole-of-government approach\u201d will embrace the values of \u201cvigilance, remedy, and reconstruction\u201d to achieve \u201cracial equity in every facet of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report begins by describing New York\u2019s history as one of \u201ccolonization, exploitation, and racial oppression,\u201d noting that \u201cthe land New York City stands on today once belonged to the Lenape people, who were forcibly displaced through settler colonialism.\u201d Yet, despite all this exploitation and oppression, New York\u2019s black population grew and thrived for nearly 320 years before peaking in 2000.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s Racial Equity Plan does not explain how or why racism suddenly became worse in the 2000s \u2014 it was then that everyone could see that race relations were, in fact, getting better \u2014 causing the city\u2019s black population start to decline. Now the rest of the city\u2019s population is shrinking too, as businesses relocate to more business-friendly communities. They\u2019re not leaving because they agree with land acknowledgments and think they should vacate in favor of earlier inhabitants. They\u2019re leaving because Democrats such as Mamdani and their leveling policies make the city inhospitable to entrepreneurs, wealth creators, and owners.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani report was reportedly scrubbed by city lawyers of all references to \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d and of explicit minority hiring goals to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration. But set-asides for minority-owned businesses in government contracting survived into the final version, as did mandated \u201canti-racism training\u201d for all city government staff.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for New Yorkers, this Racial Equity Plan does not include specific proposals for new tax hikes. But it includes plenty of other directives that limit how New Yorkers may use their property and will make it harder, not easier, to build the homes the city needs to become more affordable.<\/p>\n

These include a mandate that \u201cracial equity\u201d be considered in evaluating all new construction projects, the prioritization of \u201caffordable housing\u201d in all new construction, and the \u201cincorporation of non-residential uses in affordable housing developments,\u201d such as public health services and \u201cfresh food.\u201d All new construction projects must submit to \u201ccommunity-involved neighborhood planning,\u201d which will create more opportunities for activists to shake down developers for money. The plan even calls for a 20% increase in \u201chistoric resource surveys in underserved neighborhoods,\u201d which, again, will cause delays and add costs to new construction.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s focus on redistributing wealth rather than creating new wealth was on full display during his press conference, when he was repeatedly asked what specific policies he proposed to retain and attract big employers. \u201cI\u2019m wondering specifically if you could speak to retention of large companies,\u201d one journalist asked. \u201cDo you have any concerns specifically with the CEO of Partnerships of New York commenting on Apollo moving their headquarters? Is there anything in this report that addresses retaining these large companies that are already a big generator of jobs in the city?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani offered no specifics on anything his administration was doing to improve the city\u2019s business environment. Instead, he said, \u201cWhat this report is a reminder to all of us to do is to build a city where equity is not a footnote or an acknowledgment but is also a framework for how we deliver for the people of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

REPUBLICANS SHOULD END THE DEMOCRATS\u2019 SHUTDOWN THREAT<\/a><\/p>\n

Therein lies the problem. Mamdani is not focused on growing or even retaining jobs in New York. He thinks \u201cequity\u201d is more important than economic growth. Unless a large employer can prove to him that the jobs it maintains or creates predominantly benefit minority communities, he is not interested.<\/p>\n

That is why more and more large employers are leaving the city and will continue to do so until a new administration focused on job creation, not wealth redistribution, takes power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York is hemorrhaging jobs and residents, but instead of trying to make it an attractive place to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17446,7337,3415,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,1211,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-194139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dei","9":"tag-editorials","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-socialism","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194139","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=194139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}