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America\u2019s favorite socialist import, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, just dropped his Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity <\/span>Plan<\/span><\/a> and unsurprisingly surmised that white New Yorkers are too wealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n According to his new report, a 375 page bureaucratic word salad spread across 45 city agencies, the median net worth of a white household in NYC is roughly $277,000. For black households it\u2019s about $19,000, a nearly 15-fold difference. Mamdani\u2019s solution to this <\/span>abhorrent<\/span><\/i> problem, is a \u201cwhole-of-government\u201d race-based overhaul that explicitly prioritizes \u201cblack and brown New Yorkers\u201d who\u2019ve supposedly been \u201cpushed out\u201d for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n This is an odd way of saying black and brown people are going to be given special treatment over their white counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n The plan is textbook grievance politics dressed up as compassion. It lays out hundreds of goals, more than 800 strategies, and over 600 indicators across all 45 city agencies, to try and put down the white folk. From housing and health to pothole filling, these agencies must view their work through a \u201cracial equity lens.\u201d In other words, resources, jobs, and contracts will be doled out based on skin color, not merit, need, or behavior. This will coincide with anti-racism training for city workers, pay equity mandates by race, and new \u201cTrue Cost of Living\u201d measures \u2014 all absolutely necessary to ensure a nation\u2019s success, right?<\/span><\/p>\n It won\u2019t be cheap. The Mayor\u2019s Office of Equity and Racial Justice and the Commission on Racial Equity (a mouthful) is already budgeted at $10.2 million per year, which is a 42% jump from last year. Meanwhile, New York City is staring at a $5.4 \u2013 $7.1 billion <\/span>budget<\/span><\/a> shortfall. But sure, let\u2019s keep pouring money into this black hole of DEI bureaucracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Harmeet Dillion, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, immediately said she would look into the proposal, and reminded Americans that\u00a0there\u2019s no such thing as \u201creverse discrimination\u201d \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s just plain old discrimination, and it\u2019s illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n The real driver of these gaps isn\u2019t some ancient conspiracy keeping black and brown New Yorkers down. It\u2019s the policy machine the city built over decades. Benefit structures that penalized marriage and work over dependency didn\u2019t close wealth gaps \u2014 they entrenched them, weakening family formation in the communities they claimed to help. Meanwhile, high <\/span>taxes<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>crime<\/span><\/a>, failing schools, and endless red tape pushed productive families out. Mamdani\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t reckon with any of that. It just adds a racial lens to the same failed apparatus.<\/span><\/p>\n This is the horseshoe theory in action. Marxist \u201cequity\u201d meets identity politics and ends up in the same place, punishing success to buy votes. The <\/span>Supreme Cour<\/span><\/a>t already gutted race-based preferences, correctly identifying that explicit discrimination by race violates the 14th Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause. Mamdani knows this, he just hopes Trump\u2019s DOJ is too busy to sue.<\/span><\/p>\n New Yorkers deserve color-blind policy, not skin-color equity delivered by a Champagne socialist. Prioritizing one race over another doesn\u2019t close \u201cinequity\u201d gaps, it widens resentment and accelerates the exodus of <\/span>taxpayers<\/span><\/a> who actually fund the whole circus. When the bill finally comes due \u2014 because it always does \u2014 by way of higher taxes, worse services, and more crime, the same \u201cdisproportionately affected\u201d communities will be the hardest hit.<\/span><\/p>\n Mamdani ran on affordability. Now he\u2019s pivoting to race essentialism because actual solutions such as school choice, cutting regulations, enforcing the law, and promoting two parent families are politically inconvenient for a Democratic Socialists of America mayor. It\u2019s easier to blame \u201cwhiteness\u201d than failed ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n They call this \u201cracial equity.\u201d I don\u2019t think so. Because once government starts picking winners and losers by race, you don\u2019t get justice. You get Martin Luther King, Jr. rolling in his grave. You get South Africa with better bagels. And you get a whole bunch of angry, poor, and divided New Yorkers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n