{"id":21990,"date":"2025-10-30T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21990\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:03:07","slug":"zohran-mamdani-democratic-socialists-agenda-is-bad-for-black-new-yorkers-advocacy-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21990\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani, Democratic Socialists’ agenda is bad for black New Yorkers, advocacy group says"},"content":{"rendered":"

A national black advocacy group has launched a $2 million campaign against mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>, claiming their agenda is bad for African-Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just about policy \u2014 it\u2019s about principle,\u201d said Darius\u202fJones, founder and executive director of the National Black Empowerment Action Fund \u2014 which will be spending $1.3 million just through Election Day on Nov. 4 to warn against Mamdani and his DSA comrades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the DSA is pushing would hollow out everything generations of black New\u202fYorkers fought to build: safe streets, strong schools, and ownership of our futures,\u201d Jones told The Post. \u201cThey speak the language of progress while dismantling the foundations of progress itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

An anti-Mamdani ad launched by the National Black Empowerment Action Fund. National Black Empowerment Action Fund<\/p>\n

Black New Yorkers and Americans \u201crefuse to be the laboratory for failed ideology\u201d and will defend their \u201cright to safety, to excellence, and to advancement on our own terms,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

Jones previously served as the deputy national political director for former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign, and was the African American constituency director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).<\/p>\n

The NBEAF is spending the millions on ads and mailers while urging African-Americans at churches and mosques to reject the DSA and its candidates, including Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHE DSA: Dangerous. Senseless. All wrong for Black America,\u201d one of the flyers says.<\/p>\n

The leaflet warns DSA members \u201cHave an Extreme Agenda and it\u2019s threatening the Black community,\u201d adding the far-left group backs releasing prisoners, even violent criminals, dismantling the NYPD gang database and decriminalizing all drugs, including heroin and fentanyl.<\/p>\n

The ad claims Democratic Socialists of America priorities would \u201cendanger\u201d black families. National Black Empowerment Action Fund<\/p>\n

Faith-based leaders have joined the anti-DSA, anti-Mamdani campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what drugs do to families and what crack did to our neighborhoods \u2013 and what opioids like fentanyl are doing now,\u201d said Imam Qazi Qayyoom, founder of the Muhammadi Community & Interfaith Center in Jackson Heights, Queens. \u201cThe DSA\u2019s idea of justice would bring that destruction back to our doorsteps \u2013 and park it there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Qayyoom has endorsed Mamdani\u2019s election rival, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for mayor.<\/p>\n

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Pastor Zidde Hamatheite of the Wayside Baptist Church in Brooklyn said, \u201cThe DSA wants to defund the police and decriminalize hard drugs. That\u2019s not progress, that\u2019s surrender. And it\u2019s wrong for black communities in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DSA is against school choice and opportunity for parents and children of color, said the Rev. James Kilgore of the Friendship Baptist Church in Harlem.<\/p>\n

Democratic socialist<\/a> Mamdani opposes charter school <\/a>expansion and wants to phase out gifted and talented <\/a>programs in the lower grades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DSA wants to defund some of the only high-quality public schools we have access to and evict more than 130,000 black and brown children from those few high-quality public schools. How is that even remotely progressive?\u201d Kilgore said.<\/p>\n

National Black Empowerment Action Fund founder Darius Jones claimed that Mamdani and his DSA colleagues are \u201cdismantling the foundations of progress itself.\u201d Angelina Katsanis\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Most black voters are mainstream Democrats not affiliated with the left-wing DSA.<\/p>\n

During the Democratic primary for mayor, more black New Yorkers voted for Cuomo than Mamdani. <\/p>\n

But Mamdani won the primary and Cuomo is now running on an independent ballot line in the general election. Black voters are also loyal Democrats, and recent polling shows a majority of them have abandoned Cuomo and shifted to Mamdani as the Democratic nominee running on the party\u2019s ballot line .<\/p>\n

Jones said the anti-DSA initiative will be a long-term project extending beyond Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani campaign and the DSA had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A national black advocacy group has launched a $2 million campaign against mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Democratic Socialists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14663,1091,68,57,9,24,55,54,56,563,87,58,82],"class_list":["post-21990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-african-americans","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-exclusive","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-politics","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990","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=21990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}