Mamdanis bonkers DEI scheme is divisive and could be deadly

Last week Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a “preliminary citywide racial equity plan” chock full of divisive, dangerous and even deadly ideas. He’s given the public 30 days to voice their concerns.Don’t hold back. This plan will expose non-minority city employees to a hostile work environment, put children at greater risk from abusive parents, and hand out tax dollars as reparations to enable “communities harmed by racism to purchase government and non-government land.”That’s just for starters.Under this 375-page plan, the city’s entire hiring, promotion and spending apparatus will revolve around group identities —  in a misguided effort to even the score for alleged past injustices against racial and sexual minorities, women, the disabled and immigrants.Equity will be at the core of how Mamdani’s City Hall will “allocate resources, hire and support our workforce, procure goods and services, design policies and deliver programs and exercise land use authority,” Chief Equity Officer Afua Atta-Mensah pledged.Forget treating people as individuals: This mayor intends to set up a citywide caste system. White and Asian city workers will be hounded in ramped-up anti-racism and implicit-bias training sessions and shamed into silence.

  Employees’ salaries will be adjusted and their job descriptions revised to ensure “100% pay equity across departments by race, gender and experience.” No mention of merit or job performance anywhere. In a section on city contracts for the nonprofits that deliver social services, the report makes Mamdani’s target clear: White-led groups will no longer be getting business. “White CEOs and leadership teams represent 64% and 61% of nonprofit administration, respectively, while making up only 39% of the City’s population,” the report complains.Those “gaps in the diversity of nonprofit leadership,” it claims, are to blame for shortcomings in how the city serves the needy.In the report’s most dan...