{"id":200572,"date":"2026-04-17T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:17:12","slug":"mamdanis-bonkers-dei-scheme-is-divisive-and-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200572\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s bonkers DEI scheme is divisive \u2014 and deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a \u201cpreliminary citywide racial equity plan\u201d<\/a> chock full of divisive, dangerous and even deadly ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019s given the public 30 days to voice their concerns.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t hold back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This plan will expose non-minority city employees to a hostile work environment, put children at greater risk from abusive parents, and hand out tax dollars as reparations to enable \u201ccommunities harmed by racism to purchase government and non-government land.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just for starters.<\/p>\n

Under this 375-page plan, the city\u2019s entire hiring, promotion and spending apparatus will revolve around group identities<\/a> \u2014 \u00a0in a misguided effort to even the score for alleged past injustices against racial and sexual minorities, women, the disabled and immigrants.<\/p>\n

Equity will be at the core of how Mamdani\u2019s City Hall will \u201callocate resources, hire and support our workforce, procure goods and services, design policies and deliver programs and exercise land use authority,\u201d Chief Equity Officer Afua Atta-Mensah\u00a0pledged.<\/p>\n

Forget treating people as individuals: This mayor intends to set up a citywide caste system. \u00a0<\/p>\n

White and Asian city workers will be hounded in ramped-up anti-racism and implicit-bias training sessions and shamed into silence. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Employees\u2019 salaries will be adjusted and their job descriptions revised to ensure \u201c100% pay equity across departments by race, gender and experience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

No mention of merit or job performance anywhere. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In a section on city contracts for the nonprofits that deliver social services, the report makes Mamdani\u2019s target clear: White-led groups will no longer be getting business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite CEOs and leadership teams represent 64% and 61% of nonprofit administration, respectively, while making up only 39% of the City\u2019s population,\u201d the report complains.<\/p>\n

Those \u201cgaps in the diversity of nonprofit leadership,\u201d it claims, are to blame for shortcomings in how the city serves the needy.<\/p>\n

In the report\u2019s most dangerous proposal, new official guidelines will discourage teachers, physicians and professionals from reporting suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to the city\u2019s Administration for Child Services \u00a0\u2014 just because black and Hispanic families are disproportionately reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than 100 New York City children in a typical year suffer horrible deaths from mutilation, starvation, scaldings and other alleged abuse at the hands of a parent or a parent\u2019s domestic partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani claims \u201cover-reporting\u201d is a problem \u2014 nonsense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The problem is under-reporting: At least half those children are never brought to the attention of ACS before they\u2019re killed.<\/p>\n

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Discouraging professionals who see the signs of abuse from reporting it will lead to even more deaths.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

And the entire profession of child protective services\u00a0is being commandeered by far-left ideologues<\/a> more concerned with masking racial differences than actually protecting kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cPulling kids out of dangerous homes isn\u2019t racist,\u201d explains Naomi Schaefer Riley, an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the reporters are themselves people of color, so the notion that the reporting is due to racial bias is bonkers.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Black children in this country are three times as likely to die from maltreatment as white children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s goal should be preventing those deaths, not hiding them.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers and city residents who want criminals off the street are both in the equity plan\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n

The report calls for reducing incarceration for criminal offenses, and for increasing \u201cthe disciplinary power of oversight bodies for law enforcement\u201d that supposedly \u201ccause harm to people and abuse their authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

To close the racial gap in employment opportunities, City Hall will literally be \u201cdistributing money to start a business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

No criteria other than race or other immutable characteristics for who receives these taxpayer-funded handouts.<\/p>\n

Item after item, Mamdani\u2019s plan is an exercise in vicious reverse discrimination \u2014 and a step backward from the principles of fairness and inclusiveness that Americans are finally striving to achieve.<\/p>\n

The US Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 ruling against racial preferences in higher education\u00a0and its 2025 ruling against racial and gender preferences in the workplace point the nation toward a society where everyone is treated as an individual. \u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the right direction: The best way to eliminate racial discrimination is to stop discriminating based on race. Period.<\/p>\n

Major companies like Home Depot, Goldman Sachs and Lowe\u2019s are rolling back their DEI programs and scrapping hiring goals based on race, ethnicity or gender.<\/p>\n

Even Disney is jettisoning its DEI obsessions of recent years, once again addressing patrons<\/a> as \u201cladies and gentlemen\u201d in announcements that offended no one but leftist scolds.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time America ends these distinctions, whether virtuous or invidious in intent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s equity plan should be rejected by all fair-minded New Yorkers who want to build a better city \u2014 together.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a \u201cpreliminary citywide racial equity plan\u201d chock full of divisive, dangerous and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,17446,27024,9,24,55,54,56,63,299,47162,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-200572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-hall","9":"tag-dei","10":"tag-identity-politics","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-racial-discrimination","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200572","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=200572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}