Mayor Adams likens white woman to slave owner as he flips out over question on rising rent in NYC

“First, if you’re going to ask a question, don’t point at me and don’t be disrespectful to me,” he said calmly.

A disrespectin has occurred.

When you're an elected public official part of the gig is taking criticism and sometimes not being treated in a kind and respectful manner.

TBH he went total ghetto on this woman. This will be to his detriment. I would have expected that response from some fast food worker feeling disrespected at a McDonald's in Queens, rather than the mayor of a major city. Shame on him for playing the race card and not dealing with the core question. Whenever the word disrespect is used things escalate always.

BTW white crotchety old Jewish women who frankly probably treat everybody like crap are part of your constituency as well Mr Mayor if I'm not mistaken that's what you're paid to do.

Is Mayor Adams Anti-Semitic?

I say "go for it Mr. Mayor"! Anything he can do to insure he's a one term mayor is AOK with me.

Mayor Adams hates Crackers!

It’s insane and hilarious how dumb he is, that old Jewish lady not her ancestors owned any plantations ever. He has to make everything about race, yet she is expected to bow down to him because he’s black.

MAYOR ADAMS-

YOU WORK FOR THE CITIZENS OF NEW YORK CITY, THEY ARE NOT YOUR SUBJECTS!

FUCK OFF!

"What a Fucking flaming asshole" Total dickhead!!

Fuck him!

The constant race-baiting nowadays is getting really old.

Hell no, time for him to go. She's asking about housing affordability, and he wants to play some race card. He is unfit for the position of Mayor of NYC.

R5- I would have to agree.

Watch the first 5 seconds.

This fucker needs to be removed from office. Can they do a recall election?

I don’t understand the question and… RACISM!!!! RACIST!!!

Chip on shoulder.

I never listened to him before. Wow, he's pretty ghetto. I just assumed he would be better spoken than he is.

You bitches miss me now, dont'cha?

R2, "white crotchety old Jewish women" are absolutely the most passionately pro-Democrat constituency in this city. Theirs are the windows festooned with "BLM," "I'm with HER," "In This House We Believe...[list of platitudes], trans flags, and all the anti-Trump signs that can fit in the remaining space.

I can confidently say that if Adams took a crossbow with a swastika on it and winged this woman in the shoulder, she'd still march herself, shoulder sling and all, to the polls to vote for him again if he were the D candidate.

He's got nothing to lose by attacking her.

Racist narcy with an attitude. Hopefully he’ll be voted out next time around.

You voted for him, so why are you bitching?

The little racist is a little thin skinned.

He likes using the race card as needed. Racist prick.

raci$t le$bian troll alert!!

Since 2016 when racism was re-ignited by TFG, I have so much more respect for the Obamas and the absolute garbage they put up with for 8 years while still maintaining their class and decorum. What has happened since is appalling ☹️

[quote]Is Mayor Adams Anti-Semitic?

Of course not. He hates ALL white women.

Really, Mr Mayor. Do you kiss your boyfriend with that sassy mouth?

He is ugly both inside and out.

If he can't take an old annoying Jew, he's completely unqualified to run New York City.

He's a one-termer for sure. Too thin-skinned and too tone-deaf.

She seems to be raising her voice because she is 20 feet away from him and also seems like a very typical born and bred NYer. At her age she is probably on a fixed income so may be pissed if he is breaking campaign promises about rent.

Only some people are allowed to be angry any more and are characterized as strong. Others will be called karen for having an opinion.

He’s a cunt.

Since when is pointing whilst saying “You said” a crime?

R31, come on. Since when have angry New Yorkers ever confronted a mayor? Since when have they ever had beef with a mayor? Complained about a mayor? Never happened until there was a black mayor. Adams is right. This is all racism.

R12, There are no laws in New York State allowing Recalls. And in New York, citizens can't put a Referendum on the ballot. How convenient for the politicians.

R32 That’s not true. Are you a New Yorker? Real New Yorkers are fiesty and engaged. And will confront a mayor.

He betta not fuck wit da Italians!

I don't remember David Dinkins having this kind of problem. Oh, that's right. He was a gentleman.

R24- He hates ALL white people.

R25- Adams is a HOMO?

R32, New Yorkers have never confronted a mayor? Lololololo. Where are you from, Mars? Have you even visited NYC? That behavior is woven into the very fabric of the City. Ed Koch alone……

R34, I thought my sarcasm was obvious, but here, have an /s tag.

It was obvious to me R40, New Yorkers hate every mayor we've ever had. Rite of passage, basically.

Hizzoners being yelled at is par for the course.

Decades ago, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor, I was standing with a rickety, 84-y-o Boston-Irish transplant who started berating Rudy as he squeezed by us in his UES haunt pub:

“They’re pahkin’ the gahhbage trucks on my street and I can’t get my cahhh out!”

Rudy forcibly pushed him out of the way as he squeezed by us with his security detail. It was alarming because Rudy looked like he enjoyed doing it.

That lady is a dime a dozen in NY probably talks like that when bitching to her neighbor about cat food prices. Plus most people who go to see politicians are there to squawk, not lavish praise. It’s an unfortunate exchange.

I loathe him. I didn’t think it was possible to get worse than DiBlassio but Adams is giving him a run for his money.

I despise this man. Not only is he an idiot—he's also self-righteous, annoying and vindictive. He hates New York and New Yorkers. Good god, I'd rather have BLOOMBERG!

R44- He indeed is a Dumbbell

He exemplifies the racism, ignorance and narrowness of view of way too many black people. By far, most Whites in this country are not descendants of slave owners and there were a hell of a lot more of black slave owners than there were Jewish slave owners, which is probably close to zero.

Citizen: Wah, my rent went up. [Points] You said no sucky rent increase!

Mayor: I’m the victim here!

Fuck the NY Post in general but the top commentor has a point: Adams fits the plantation owner role more than she does in this scenario. Why is he acting like he's the disempowered one here?

They keep pricing out the poor people and wonder why it's getting so gentrified.

Answering that question means protecting the city's diversity. Most people darker than sour cream are being squeezed everywhere but the Bronx. Then the WASPS come in and fuck up the local culture.

At the start of his term Adams announced he would be paid in BITCOIN.

Doesn’t that violate laws about politicians ginning investments?

Ethereum was gaining on Bitcoin at that point in a highly volatile, speculative market.

WASPS in NYC 😂

Mayor Lindsay is gone, honey, and the WASPS with him. Might be a few scattered here or there on the UES, Sutton Place maybe -- but there aren't enough left to fuck up a block, let alone a neighborhood.

R48-Spike Lee complains about disempowerment but ignores the fact that he’s RICH 🤑 and FAMOUS.

Enjoy your ONE term Mr. Mayor. Then, when you're recalled or booted from office, sit back and ponder why your nasty ass was booted. Perhaps you'll realize respect isn't a given, it must be earned. YOU should not speak to a constituent in that manner. You attempted to profile her as a racist. She was upset, but race had nothing to do with this. If you can't take heated, NON-racially motivated public discourse, you should never have run for office. It comes with the job. YOU Mr. Mayor made this personal, not her. This will not end well for you.

[quote] Since when is pointing whilst saying “You said” a crime?

A much greater crime is using the fey Britishism "whilst" on an America webforum.

Mr Saturday Night Playa doesn’t want to hear from rent controlled mofo cracker ass bitch

He messed with the wrong person. She is a long-time tenant advocate, there is video of haranging De Blasio, and an escapee from the Nazis.

He's a very limited man.

Did he always says "axe" for "ask" or is it an affectation?

R57, he has a very blue collar New York City boroughs accent. He sounds like most cops and firemen.

[Quote] A much greater crime is using the fey Britishism "whilst" on an America webforum.

R54 says as he uses the chiefly British fey

R58- White ethnics don’t say Ya’ll or Axe 🪓- That’s strictly black ghetto lingo.

Um—he was elected with a good dollop of support from Brooklyn’s very large Orthodox community. It made s difference. They get his attention as needed.

I love him ❤️ and enjoy watching him putting down these Karens

Her ancestors were probably sent to concentration camps. A plantation she owns… bitch please.

He is such an ignorant, useless asshole.

R40 you use that /s to substitute wit.

R60, R57 axed about axed, not y'all. He definitely has a working class boroughs accent and working class Whites say axed all the time, they also say y'all but tend to say yiz, yous or yous guyz.

-R58, Brooklyn Native

The lady doth protest too much, and I don't mean the old White lady.

The video is absolutely appalling. He goes on and on, so defensive. He’s toast I hope.

Classless dolt! 😂

Housing Affordability. Uh huh. This woman wants handouts. Time for her to get a job like everyone else.

This woman blames Adams for rent increases. She doesn't seem to understand that rents are set on a private market. Probably some old school Communist type.

Not having constant massive increases in rent? Why, that's Bolshevism, Madam, Bolshevism!

Why is she still renting at that age?

Why not r72? And she's actually an advocate for other tenants. She has some questions about rent increases. Why is that something that must immediately be shut down and diverted into other discussions?

R70, that's not what she said. She is well aware how rent increases are determined, as are many New Yorkers. She was admonishing him for making comments supporting the large increases and being pro-real estate developers to begin with. She's definitely an olde timey lefty though.

"Okay first if you gonna AXE a question....."

JFC

[quote] At the start of his term Adams announced he would be paid in BITCOIN.

Did he follow through on that? Has it all evaporated cause of some stupid cryptobro bullshit, or all been stolen, cause of some stupid cryptobro bullshit?

He's so ghetto

Bring back old white Jews as NYC mayors.

Im tired if you New York cunts complaining about every mayor you have. Why don't some of you bitches run then?

Fran Lebowitz should be mayor

R32, I can not believe R34. He can't even understand a joke. What a moron

He has 9 W/W. He must be "liking" his own post. That's truly pathetic.

And R79, shut the fuck up and get out of here.

R73 because it isn't a good idea. It's better to buy a place.

Just renting forever and assuming rents will remain affordable (or that you can stay in the same apartment) isn't a plan.

Mayor Adams is absolutely deranged.

We gotta get rid of him, he is decompensating daily.

People like her taking housing stock off the market is what's driving rents up in NYC. Probably been living in the same apartment since 1975 and acts like she owns it.

Yes, it's all her fault, r84. How right you are to blame her specifically. You don't sound nutty at all!

Housing stock. Oh, fuck off, you sad cunt.

Pastaboi has a point. She does come across as entitled.

No one ever taught this woman that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Bless your heart r88.

It says she left Germany in the 1930s. So she was never in the camps. Not a Holocaust Survivor.

And by my calculations, Mayor Adams never actually grew up on a slave plantation, where pointing fingers was the ultimate punishment!

[QUOTE] And by my calculations, Mayor Adams never actually grew up on a slave plantation, where pointing fingers was the ultimate punishment!

That makes them both wrong then. And remember two wrongs don't make a right.

Mayors of major cities just suck these days.

Thank you for trying R65, but they are determined to hate Adams and they will defend this mean shrew of a woman til their deaths.

Yall think he fucks trannies on the side?

Only Holocaust survivors are allowed to question rent increases. It's right there in the bylaws.

R90, her mother left Germany in the 1930s because they were Jewish and anti-semitism was on the rise. She was born in Belgium and her family immigrated to the US from there when she was 8. I don't think anyone has called her a Holocaust survivor, instead saying she (and her family) had to flee from the Holocaust. She is far from a plantation owner. I think you're splitting spaghetti, pastaboi.

[QUOTE] her mother left Germany in the 1930s because they were Jewish and anti-semitism was on the rise. She was born in Belgium and her family immigrated to the US from there when she was 8.

So I guess that gives her a free pass to act like an abrasive bitch for the rest of her life?

Agree R98. Like it's supposed to excuse the way she talks to people. Unreal the entitlement.

[quote] So I guess that gives her a free pass to act like an abrasive bitch for the rest of her life?

Actually, being a New Yorker asking her Mayor to explain his bullshit gives her that free pass. Just as being on DL gives you your cunting pass.

Whore

Adams didn't handle that perfectly, but can you honestly envision having to be bossed around by the likes of her all the time?

The NYTs article also says that she was yelling because she didn't have a microphone and she wanted to make sure everyone heard her.

The rent is too damn high!

How is her past history even relevant here? Why is it brought up in the article.

[QUOTE] The NYTs article also says that she was yelling because she didn't have a microphone and she wanted to make sure everyone heard her.

Sure Jan. And I have a bridge to sell you if you actually believe that.

[quote] but can you honestly envision having to be bossed around by the likes of her all the time?

Yes, I'm sure every politician in New York City has survived equal traumas without falling apart.

I KNOW her. She orders people around all the time. It has nothing to do with the lack of a microphone.

I just watched. His reaction was fine until he went left with the plantation thing. As a mayor he's got to know he cant say shit like that. He was really about to go hood on her.

R11 he also calls out black people too for questioning why he would run.

People have to get over this race shit. A few bad apples that look like the good apples have people thinking everyone that looks like that red or green apple is the same. But not all apples are the same. Whether we're Golden or Fuji or Gala.

We need to remember we're still sweet inside.

His reaction was idiotic from the start. Just accept that not every constituent just loves your bullshit from start to finish, and go from there. Try to act like this isn't your first time at the rodeo, okay?

If anything he's like the plantation owner, the one with the power, cracking the whip on some little old Sophia Petrillo lady.

She's like his indentured servant, asking how she can afford her apartment while the fat cats on the panel don't help.

[quote]People like her taking housing stock off the market is what's driving rents up in NYC.

So "living somewhere" is "taking housing stock off the market"? You sound like a fucking genius!

Wherever rent controls have been phased out like Boston, the average rents did not go down, or even level off. They went up, sharply.

[quote] but can you honestly envision having to be bossed around by the likes of her all the time?

"the likes of her"

By which you apparently mean a Jewish woman.

A bossy yenta like her is a dime a dozen in NYC. They're all a pain in the ass.

Let Jackie Hoffman explain....

Oh, I can't wait for Sunny Hostin to discuss this on THE VIEW ! And then Al Sharpton covering this on POLITICS NATION.

If you're a grown man who watches that bickering hagfest called The View you are just sad.

I'm getting a strong troll vibe from "pastaboi"

R119 No, I'm an ungrown man who watches 'The View' so don't be sad. I took puberty blockers so I stopped growing.

[quote] remember two wrongs don't make a right.

However three lefts do

He just doesn't get how offensive and uncalled for the plantation comment was. He is really a pompous, racist asshole.

R123- He has also yammered on about how the lord told him to be Mayor or something. NYC does NOT need his Black Church Dogma.

R123 Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg have both said numerous times that Black people can't be racists.

Nobody even knows who this Sunny Hostin cunt is. Most people, certainly most grown men, do not watch the shrieking vaginafest show she is on.

Is he storefront Evilgelical? Or mega church? Or prosperity gospel?

R126 There's a popular thread here on the forum dedicated to Sunny Hostin with nearly 400 posts.

But if you want to believe that "Nobody even knows who this Sunny Hostin cunt is.", we won't disturb your private world.

So, you must watch it faithfully, R 126.

OP obviously racist Defacto. Now red tagged lol

[quote] If you're a grown man who watches that bickering hagfest called The View you are just sad.

Welcome to Datalounge, newbie! You will initially find our customs and habits strange and unfamiliar, I suppose.

Adams thinks God wanted him to be Mayor of New York. He's got issues with being challenged.

Would you let that woman talk to you like that?

"That woman," R133? That citizen of the city you're a public servant in, you mean? And what do you mean, "Would you let...?" The mayor does not let his constituents speak, you fool. He's expected to listen.

That's this mayor cunt's job to listen to his constituents.

Fuck outta here.

The most disgraceful display of privilege and entitlement I've ever seen. AND he's a fucking idiot.

I can't wait to vote against this cunt mayor in the next election.

Crime in NYC so bad they have to lock up the small size ice cream.

The NY Post is trump-murdroch land. Not an acceptable new source.

Bye, asshole.

There are three or four sick and distressed homeless people on every average block in the East Village.

I had to call 911 on a screaming, ranting psychotic person who was on my block for hours last night. I know police saw them and just passed by.

Thankfully, EMS showed up, and they apparently consented to be treated. Adams needs to apply some of this empathy for the underdog/underclass to the homeless issue. It shouldn't take a call from a rent-payer to get sick people on the street into care and shelter.

Deflection from failing to answer the question.

When is he up for reelection?

Adams needs to apply some of this empathy for the underdog/underclass to the homeless issue.

Sorry buddy, but we have Mexicans that need five star hotel rooms so we are reducing homeless services.

The city Office of Management and Budget estimates it’ll cost over $4.3 billion to house, feed and provide other services to over 50,000 migrants living in 176 taxpayer-funded homeless shelters and hotels in the Big Apple.

The Biden administration has greenlit less than $150 million in grant funding for New York to help — as the city spends roughly $8 million daily on the crisis.

He's a posturing caricature and really needs to get voted out.

He lost me at “axed.” Ghetto garbage.

r134 I'm asking, as an individual (not as a Mayor) would you allow anyone to talk to you like that?

He lost me at Fernando Cabrera

Maybe Lori Lightfoot can be the next mayor. NYC voters are stupid enough to elect her as long as she has a " D" after her name.

While I don't agree with this woman's mission statement, I'm impressed on home much more articulate this 84 year old is than than the President.

[quote]I'm impressed on home much more articulate this 84 year old is than than the President.

How deliciously ironic.

If they had an edit button I would have fixed the post R148. But an edit button is above this site's paygrade.

R129 I do indeed. If you're new here, you will see there's a thread dedicated to that program which has nearly 400 posts in it's 27th ongoing thread. It has a loyal fanbase here.

R141-We have OPEN borders right now

R143- He talks like a villain on an old episode of Good Times.

She was wrong. He was right.

Fuck the racism and pandering to an old bitch who thinks her cause and her position absents her from standard and appropriate behavior at public meetings.

I don't like him. But the lack of understanding of his point and the fact that his emotional response, presented professionally, tells a major truth about the experience black men in this country. The "Holocaust survivor activist trumps elected black man" assertion is disgusting. She was wrong.

He was right.

R153, likening an old woman/constituent to a plantation owner is not professional. The fact that this is lost on you speaks of your racial issues.

R153 Wait I thought we already decided she does not count as a Holocaust Survivor. Is she even claiming that?

She's a dime a dozen in NYC! Everyone who lives in NYC knows this.

R153 the Holocaust connection came up to show she was one of the historically persecuted, not some descendant of slave owners as the mayor unprofessionally asserted.

She might be a bit of a loudmouth (I don't know) but how could she carry on making her legitimate point about the mayor and his staff not protecting New Yorkers from huge rent increases when he accused her of treating him disrespectfully due to racism?

What pisses me off is people hired to be standing up for their constituents deflecting important questions and besmirching those who can't defend themselves. Well in this case grandma came back swinging.

[quote] grandma came back swinging

A TKO in the second round

R117 That comedienne went in pretty hard and deep at that stereotype. The passage about the Spina Bifida and hair lip was rough, but disturbingly funny. It’s a pretty effective bit. I winced when she impersonated that indignant UWS lady from the audience confronting her in the lobby. We have some neighbors who sound and act like that in my co-op.

Madam speaks to His Honor as if he were a counterman at Zabar’s.

[quote]But the lack of understanding of his point and the fact that his emotional response, presented professionally, tells a major truth about the experience black men in this country.

I agree. He was not professional or justified in his response, but his reaction reflects how many of people of color perceive incidents like this.

SDE!

Mayor Adams should not have used that analogy, and, yes, as mayor he'll get a great deal of grief from New Yorkers.

Still, I sympathize with him. He's a Black man who no doubt experienced a white person berating or talking down to him. And this woman was doing that, too.

If you understand racism as linked to power and privilege and access to power and privilege, then Black people are not racist. Can they be antisemitic? Yes. Can they ve bigoted and prejudicial to certain groups? Of course.

But they are not racist.

R163, black people are often nasty, rude, angry, berating to non-blacks, usually for no fucking reason except they are entitled to and will get away with it. We all have at least one perpetually angry black person where we work, often several.

Bullshit, R153. He's a public servant. It's his fucking job to listen to the citizens of his city.

Some public figures think they are deigning to give the little people their time, losing sight of the fact they are employed to protect and serve these people and that their salaries are paid for from our taxes

Why is the OP grayed out?

[quote] Would you let that woman talk to you like that?

"that woman"?

We know you just want to call her "that Jewess." Just go ahead and say it.

r168 I don't want to call her anything. Never seen her before in my life. It's easy for you to sit on the internet and tell people how they should react. I know if someone started talking to you like that, you wouldn't sit there and just be berated (and Im not talking about if you were an elected official either). You old queens wouldn't stand for it.

Hey asshole R169, he's the mayor. A public servant. Guess what? Public servants get berated--and worse. And he had it coming. Now fuck off.

r170 didn't I just say Im not talking about public servants? I already commented that Mayor Adams was unprofessional and his comments were out of line.

So I guess your answer is yes, you would curse this woman out if she was talking to you like she was talking to the Mayor. And I can tell you are a disrespectful bitch as well, with how you are replying to me. Now you go fuck yourself, bitch.

No, I wouldn't talk to her like that, but I will talk to you like that, R171, you cunt.

[quote]No, I wouldn't talk to her like that

r171 is having a moment.

"I don't respect you because you're a shit mayor!"

She was using her Outside Voice.

The lady has power and privilege.

And the mayor doesn't, R177?

He is a descendant of people who were enslaved hundreds of years ago. She was a descendant of people who were slaughtered by Nazis in her lifetime; she had to flee. So, of course, he has every right to scream at her as if she had actually endured the direct victimization as much as he had. After all, he might get reparations and she won't.

[quote[] he has every right to scream at her

Wrong, R179. A public servant has no right to scream at a citizen of the city he represents, especially when it was an honest question about rent prices continuing to go up. He's a thin-skinned, corrupt asshole who ducks questions he doesn't like with faux outrage and playing the race card. He doesn't deserve to be mayor and I will vote aainst him.

Read the whole post. It wasn't serious, R180

NYC homelessness up 18% in 2023 despite sweeps, new outreach: survey

(More than 67,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the crisis began. Of those, 41,500 people are currently being cared for by the city, Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor for health and human services, said at a news conference on Wednesday.)

NYC homeless left on streets to die, illegal migrants placed in swanky hotel.

Some animals are more equal than others.

Has anyone mentioned that he is ugly as hell?

I wish white people got this sort of sympathy when they acted in a racist manner.

R185, especially when White people have a blatantly racist black mayor.

She responds

When you wrote "she responds," R187, I thought you meant Eric.

r184 his dick is probably a foot long tho

Stop talking!

[QUOTE] He is a descendant of people who were enslaved hundreds of years ago. She was a descendant of people who were slaughtered by Nazis in her lifetime; she had to flee.

And she has white skin privilege that helps her in every way in life.

Doesnt his black dick privilege count?

Why was this thread greyed out?

Asbestos eyes here.

Hopefully this nonsense will be brought up the next time this jackass is up for election.

[quote] can you honestly envision having to be bossed around by the likes of her all the time?

New Yorkers should be used to such SJWs. The plantation lady is breaking no new ground.

Adams is a clown. I wish we had ejected the trash lady.

^^whoops…”elected”

[quote]And she has white skin privilege that helps her in every way in life.

And so, he's mayor of the country's largest city, while she is a housing advocate. Tell me who has the privilege.

Exactly, R198. He has much more privilege and power than she does.