Condescension and race hustling is what you get when you elect a far-left activist as your mayor, as is the case with New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
On Wednesday during a town hall meeting in Manhattan, an angry, older woman conveyed her displeasure with the NYC Rent Guidelines Board’s decision to raise rents around the city “by up to 6 percent,” according to a report by the Daily Mail.
“You said before and after that you supported those rent increases,” the woman said while pointing her finger at Adams.
Even though pointing your finger at someone while talking to them is rude — go figure in New York — it was nothing compared to the hubris and audacity of Adams’ response.
If you going to ask a question, don’t point at me and don’t be disrespectful to me. I’m the mayor of this city, and treat with the respect that I would deserve to be treated. I’m speaking to you as an adult. Don’t stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own. Give me the respect I deserve and engage in a conversation up here in Washington Heights. Treat me with the same level of respect I treat you. Don’t be pointing at me. Don’t be disrespectful to me. Speak with as an adult, because I’m a grown man. I walked into this room a grown man, and I’m going to walk out of this room as a grown man. I answered your question.
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.@NYCMayor went off on a woman during his town hall tonight: "I'm the mayor of this city and treat me with the respect that would deserve to be treated. I'm speaking to you as an adult. Don't stand in front like you treated someone that's on the plantation that you own." pic.twitter.com/Qwn8TgYFD1
— Myles Miller (@MylesMill) June 29, 2023
Whether Adams actually answered the question before the exchange is immaterial. There’s a few things to unpack about his self-serving tantrum that activists and race hustlers like Adams tend to do in lieu of actually answering a question.
First, yes, Adams is the mayor. But who are you to talk to your bosses that way? That’s right. That woman is your boss, not the other way around. Her tax dollars enable you to have a job in the first place.
Second, to basically call the woman a slave owner is low and beneath the office. Someone who demands respect should be able to show respect for others as well. Instead, he treated that woman as if her anger towards Adams and the city was merely because of the color of his skin. That’s cheap and shows that Adams’ debate skills are limited, at best.
Note how Adams said to “Treat me with the same level of respect I treat you.” By his own logic, she should treat him like garbage, especially after he called her a planation owner.
No wonder New York City is basically done — it’s own mayor doesn’t understand the definition of respect. Maybe he should listen to a little Aretha Franklin so that he’ll at least know how to spell it.
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