When asked on The Root whether he’d support cash reparations for Black New Yorkers, Mayor Mamdani said he wouldn’t rule it out: “Here in New York City, we were very complicit.” The mayor promised an answer once the city’s Commission on Racial Equity reports back in 2027. Slightly inflammatory and highly performative, his answer hit his sweet

Mamdani should explain why residents with little connection to slaveholders must compensate residents with little connection to those enslaved.

When asked on The Root whether he’d support cash reparations for Black New Yorkers, Mayor Mamdani said he wouldn’t rule it out: “Here in New York City, we were very complicit.”…