The speech came on MLK Day. Looks like he forgot about King’s ‘content of character’ over ‘color of skin’ comments.

New York – Remember back last July when President Trump, referring to “the Squad”, said, “if they don’t like it, let them leave?” Do you remember the media meltdown? Do you remember him being called a racist for using “divisive rhetoric” to describe the beloved “squad?”

Well today, we have a Democrat candidate for mayor of New York City using rhetoric similar to what the president used last summer, however in this case, because after all he’s not “orange man”, you’re not hearing much from the media about it, save the New York Post.

Eric Adams is the Brooklyn Borough President, and currently enjoys the status of being the leading fundraiser for the 2021 mayoral race in the Big Apple. As of last week he had over $2.3 million in his war chest.

On Monday, at a “King Day Celebration” hosted by noted race hustler Al Sharpton, Adams was having none of the so-called “newcomers” from the Midwest. The event was being held in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day.

“Go back to Iowa, you go back to Ohio,” he said during the speech in Harlem.

“New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.”

Adams was less than secretive about the not-so-hidden message he delivered. He played the race card by singling out two states, Iowa and Ohio that are 91 and 82 percent white respectively. Can you imagine if a white politician had made similar comments about African Americans? The media would be in full meltdown mode, and rightfully so.

Yet, they’re quiet on this.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams tells new New Yorkers 'go back to Iowa' https://t.co/n2TDSd1AFC pic.twitter.com/pDaXRV2UxN — New York Post (@nypost) January 20, 2020

Adams then went full social justice warrior, naming off a number of social issues such as drug abuse and gun violence, which he claimed are ignored when they only affected the nation’s “black and brown community.” Adams failed to mention that gun violence in the black community is primarily perpetuated by other blacks, as statistics have repeatedly shown.

Adams then tried to appropriate Dr. King, saying, “if you know the spirit and anything about Dr. King, he did not allow others to be comfortable while everyone else was living in horrific conditions.” Very true, Mr. Adams. He also said that men should be judged “not on the color of their skin, but the content of their character.”

Apparently, Adams has forgotten that part.

Adams also denounced what he called the “displacement of the people who made this city.”

“You were here before Starbucks,” he said to about 300 people who cheered the remarks.

“You were here before the others came and decided they wanted to be part of this city.”

We wonder if Adams also rejects the financial influx that comes from having “outsiders” move into the city and avail themselves of the economy and spend their dollars in the city. Plus can you imagine all those millennials with no Starbucks to drop their money at?

Adams referred to the so-called transplants as “folks who [are] not only hijacking your apartment and displacing your living arrangements, they displace your conversation and say things that are important to you are no longer important. And they decide what’s important and what is not important.”

Ironically, for all the railing against outsiders and complaining about “hijacking your apartment and displacing your living arrangements”, a large amount of his political contributions have come from the real estate industry. So just as people such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders whine about “millionaires and billionaires” while holding their hands out and taking their cash, so does a hypocrite like Adams with the real estate industry.

Not everyone was on board with Adams’ message. Jenna Hockman, 28, a caterer from Brooklyn who has lived there her whole life, complained that Adams was “blaming individuals instead of the system that enables developers to build these high-rises that are pricing people out.”

“I am concerned about placing responsibility on the individuals that are moving to these neighborhoods and not the people who are making money from these individuals moving there,” she said.

In Ohio, the Republican leader of Cuyahoga County, which includes the city of Cleveland, said that Adams “took Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of unity and made it a divisive message.”

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Likewise, the chairman of the Ohio GOP, Robert Frost said that he would welcome anyone from New York who was put off by Adams’ message to move to there.

“We got a lot of great things going on in Ohio. Ohio has an open door if people are frustrated in New York,” he said.

And the best thing is, Ohio probably actually keeps their criminals in jail, especially the frequent flyers, unlike New York where it is a free for all.

Adams seems to be making a lot of friends in New York. Last month, he criticized an “LGBT-friendly” senior housing development in Brooklyn, saying that the project was “not going to be inclusive.” Seems a bit of a contradiction there, but we’ll move on.

One political operative told the Post that, “This is a continuation of what we see from Eric Adams dividing people and sort of polarizing New York City by pitting people against one another.”

“That’s what he did on the LGBT stuff and that’s what he’s doing now.”

Of course, all liberals need to stick together, so while Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office initially refused to comment on what Adams had said, they changed their tune later on Monday.

“They mayor doesn’t agree with how it was said, but the borough president voiced a very real frustration,” spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said.

“We need to improve affordability in this city to ensure New Yorkers can stay in the city they love, but New York City will always be a city for everyone.”

Buckle up, New York. If this guy gets elected mayor, he may make de Blasio look like the second coming of Rudy Giuliani. On second thought, never mind.

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