Mamdani advisor under fire for resurfaced ‘white supremacy’ tweets but landlords are really upset about hearings ‘to shame and embarrass them’ | Fortune

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new tenant advisor is backtracking after her tweets calling private property a “weapon of white supremacy” resurfaced online.

In an August 2019 post on X, then known as Twitter, Cea Weaver wrote “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy,” Weaver wrote. A screenshot of the post was shared by the conservative account Libs of Tiktok.

Another X account, PNW Conservative, posted an undated video of Weaver advocating for property as a “collective good.”

“For centuries, we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good.

In transitioning to treating it as a collective good and toward a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,” she said. “And it will mean that families, especially white families but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than we currently have.”