NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani introduces details of his 'racial equity plan' for city

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, on Monday announced the details of his "racial equity plan," something he's legally required to implement after New Yorkers in 2022 voted to establish such a plan. Eric Adams, Mamdani's predecessor, never formulated a "racial equity plan" during his term.

In his remarks, Mamdani told reporters the effects of New York City's affordability crisis "are not applied evenly." He continued, saying, "So often it is black and brown New Yorkers who are hit the hardest," leaning heavily into the type of woke rhetoric favored by race grifters and many members of the Biden administration. Mamdani said the plan is just the first step of developing a "whole of government approach" to advancing a "racial equity" agenda.

The plan calls for addressing pay equity based on factors like skin color, gender identity and age, mandating anti-racism training for city employees, and building "an environment that values racial equity and provides our colleagues with a greater knowledge of the related theories of justice so that they may apply that knowledge when providing counsel to or defending City agencies."

"It places the work of 45 city agencies within a singular framework," Mamdani said, surrounded by only people of color at the press conference. Last year, during his campaign for mayor, Mamdani raised eyebrows when he suggested he planned to "Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods." He later tried to walk back the racial aspect of his plans to hike taxes, but the plan released Monday seems aimed at delivering on the campaign promise to target white taxpayers of New York City. 

Afua Atta-Mensah, the commissioner of the city's office of equity and racial justice, later spoke and alluded to the fact that such a plan arose out of the social upheaval following the 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “This plan was born from when New Yorkers were in the streets calling for justice," Atta-Mensah said, referring to a period during which many protesters resorted to rioting, violence, vandalism and looting in the city.

Reacting to Mamdani's announcement, Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, said in a post on X, "Sounds fishy/illegal. Will review!"

Below, watch a clip of Mamdani's remarks.