Mamdanis Race Plan sets dangerous goals thank goodness its unlikely he delivers

Bad news: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s just-released Racial Equity Plan is promising to address “disparities” in racial outcomes based on a dangerously flawed understanding their causes — and seemingly with a distinctly anti-American solution: racial favoritism.Good news: There’s little sign, based on the plan and on his record, he’ll actually deliver on his promises.Start with the fact that America was founded on the principle of equal opportunity, not outcomes.Only minds twisted by the fantasy of a socialist utopia would expect outcomes to be the same for everyone, despite pivotal differences between them — most notably, the effort they put in.And would then resort to blatantly unfair, unlawful and wholly ineffective means in supposed pursuit of that equality.Remember, the nation’s successful civil rights movement was premised on securing equal rights, not outcomes, for blacks and other racial minorities, and later, women. Equal opportunity was, is and always should be the ideal.The Mamdani plan’s main mistake is that it assumes racial disparities are chiefly the result of “historical harm” — never mind that slavery ended 160 years and the civil-rights reforms rolled back most official racist policies more than 60 years ago.Indeed, the plan sees “systemic racism” sewn into the fabric of the city’s history, governance and policies.And then hints of addressing disparities by giving minorities an edge, in one form or another.Fortunately, except in a few places, the report offers little meat on the bones for achieving that.

It largely calls for studies, recommendations, data, etc.— as opposed to actual, immediate, concrete changes.

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