New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, exalted the city’s legacy of immigrants on Friday in a historically laden, ideological counterpoint to a US semiquincentennial address that was expected later in the day from Donald Trump – who has sought to deport immigrants en masse throughout his second presidency.
Speaking from behind a desk at New York’s city hall that belonged to the US’s first president, George Washington, and which itself is a century older than the Resolute desk in the White House, Mamdani was surrounded by naturalized citizens like himself as he listed the waves of immigrants who shaped the city.
“Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty,” Mamdani said. “Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown. Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island. Jewish people escaping pogroms, Italians fleeing poverty. Syrians seeking economic opportunity.
Props for telling the truth about the Irish Famine.
Pro immigrant speech for 4th of july is way more appropriate than anything trump says ever
“My fellow Americans” Mamdani knows the context of this phrase. Not my fellow New Yorkers.
I see comments from people all over the world who say Mamdani is their mayor, too ❤️🔥 Certainly hope more Americans outside of NYC can feel the same.
He’s turning into an amazing Mayor… Here’s hoping he can carry it off. The part the conservatives are most afraid of is that his plans will work…because they will (are already to an extent) work and serve as a template for other cities and states if they do.
They talk about “mini mamdanis” like it’s a bad thing lol
I want a maxi-mamdani… Like 3 or 4 of them in one candidate. ;-)
MASTODON
I will vote as far left int he primaries as I can…
But in the general, I will vote as far left as I can. Don’t care who it is.
I’m done he knows when he says that, he means it
However, refreshing to vote for a politician, who doesn’t have to lie
possibly my favorite gif in the last 5 years, maybe ever
My face when they say taxing billionaires will make them leave the state.
Mfw they say the DSA is taking over the Democratic party.
He gives me so much hope. I know better, but it still happens.
Hope changes the world…even if it’s a little bit at a time.
He’s new in politics and he’s already acting like a president. Could we see a new FDR in our lifetime? Both are New Yorkers after all.
He’s not eligible because he isn’t a natural born citizen. That said I’d totally vote for him
And yet America is about to crown a 3rd term President. Interesting indeed.
