{"id":421923,"date":"2022-03-26T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-rightly-asks-blacks-to-help-save-nyc-streets\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T12:05:17","slug":"eric-adams-rightly-asks-blacks-to-help-save-nyc-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-rightly-asks-blacks-to-help-save-nyc-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams rightly asks blacks to help save NYC streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a8a9a4dff\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22a8a9a4dff\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-rightly-asks-blacks-to-help-save-nyc-streets\/#%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_rightly_asks_blacks_to_help_save_NYC_streets%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Eric Adams rightly asks blacks to help save NYC streets&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_rightly_asks_blacks_to_help_save_NYC_streets%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Eric Adams rightly asks blacks to help save NYC streets&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>I may not be the church-going type, but I certainly know a sermon when I hear one \u2014 and Eric Adams has been doing an awful lot of sermonizing since assuming office Dec. 31. Of course, with his focus on gun violence and post-pandemic recovery \u2014 rather than education reform and economic inequality \u2014 Adams\u2019 preaching sounds far different from that of his predecessor. But what\u2019s most different about Adams is his message and his audience: Accountability in the black community.<\/p>\n<p>Few topics are more taboo for white politicians \u2014 even a white politico with a black wife and black children, like Bill De Blasio \u2014 than asking African-Americans for a bit of self-reflection. But it\u2019s actually an everyday occurrence among black folks themselves, particularly in the African-American church, whose lofty oratory style Adams often invokes when facing the press.<\/p>\n<p>Take the aftermath of the fatal double shooting of police officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora in late January in Harlem. Flanked by a mostly African American supporting cast \u2013 including New York\u2019s first-ever female Police Commissioner, Keechant Sewell \u2013 Adams\u2019 press conference offered a stark rebuke to police-defunding progressives who\u2019ve dominated law enforcement conversations since the death of George Floyd nearly two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NYC Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 Message to the City After NYPD Officer Killed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTfge_3JrMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Instead, Adams issued a call to action that was clearly intended as a rallying cry for his own community, who bear the brunt of the city\u2019s surge in gun violence. \u201cWe must stand united against these killers,\u201d said Adams, a former NYC police captain amid a crowd of fellow officers. Those who stand against this effort, Adams continued, \u201care co-conspirators to the violence we are witnessing.\u201d\u00a0Many in the crowd sighed an audible \u201camen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few days later Adams employed similarly pointed language when issuing his comprehensive 15-page \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/home\/downloads\/pdf\/press-releases\/2022\/the-blueprint-to-end-gun-violence.pdf\">Blueprint to End Gun Violence\u201d<\/a> plan. It \u201cwill take all of us,\u201d he said, to end killings like Rivera and Mora \u2014 along with the shooting of 11-month old <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10428439\/Bronx-baby-girl-shot-head-spending-birthday-hospital.html\">Catherine Rose Ortiz<\/a> in the Bronx that same week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nyc-crime-scene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were shot and killed during a domestic violence call at a Harlem home (above) in January.\" class=\"wp-image-21648321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nyc-crime-scene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nyc-crime-scene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/nyc-crime-scene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYPD officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were shot and killed during a domestic violence call at a Harlem home (above) in January.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Adams understandably didn\u2019t single out any particular ethnic group, the data surrounding the city\u2019s gun surge make for some pretty compelling parsing. In 2020, for instance, NYC police data<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-york-citys-shooting-surge-hit-black-and-hispanic-communities-hardest-11609074001\"> revealed that 96% of shooting victims were either black or Hispanic<\/a>, while eight predominantly minority and lower-income Bronx and Brooklyn neighborhoods had the highest number of shootings citywide. Nearly exact statistics were revealed for 2021, which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/analysis_and_planning\/year-end-2021-enforcement-report.pdf\">saw some 90% of murder victims<\/a> and nearly 97% of shooting victims were also either black or Hispanic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most tellingly, shooting <em>suspects and arrests<\/em> followed an almost entirely similar demographic breakdown \u2014 which means that for gun violence to end in New York City, black and brown people must stop shooting and killing other black and brown people. In other words, the \u201cus\u201d in Adams\u2019 \u201call of us\u201d missive is literally the mayor himself \u2014 and many of those who look like him. And, when Adams repeated the phrase \u201cit\u2019s our city against the killers\u201d during that Harlem Hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance, he almost certainly understood that those killers \u2013 as well as their victims \u2013 usually come from communities like Harlem.\u00a0These are communities Adams knows first-hand, having partially grown up poor<em> <\/em>\u2014 as one of six siblings \u2014 in a fourth-floor walk-up in Brooklyn\u2019s still impoverished Brownsville neighborhood. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-family.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Eric Adams, with his mother, Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter, and his five siblings, grew up poor in Brownsville, Brooklyn, before moving to Queens.\" class=\"wp-image-21648331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-family.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-family.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-family.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Eric Adams, with his mother, Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter, and his five siblings, grew up poor in Brownsville, Brooklyn, before moving to Queens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course this makes for some difficult conversations, particularly among activists still committed to Portland-style police reform. For the most part, progressive groups have been unable to coalesce around a unified anti-Adams message. Part of the reason is that Adams \u2013 unlike many big-city mayors \u2013 is unafraid to<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/new-york-playbook\/2022\/03\/21\/eric-adams-vs-the-left-00018803\"> take on critics<\/a> at both ends of the political spectrum (including a well-publicized spat with a local Black Lives Matter leader just weeks before his inauguration). <\/p>\n<p>Nor is he afraid to take-on socio-political taboos many white politicians would never dare touch, such as his now legendary \u201cStop-the-Sag\u201d campaign in 2010 against young (mostly minority) men wearing low-slung pants. As a black man, speaking to black audiences about crimes (as the data confirms) mostly committed by their own, Adams\u2019 message is hard to dismiss with the hashtag outrage app-tivists typically deploy to stifle dissent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-police-captain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Before becoming mayor, Adams served as an NYPD police captain, which makes him uniquely qualified to understand violence in the city.\" class=\"wp-image-21648337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-police-captain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-police-captain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/eric-adams-police-captain.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Before becoming mayor, Adams served as an NYPD police captain, which makes him uniquely qualified to understand violence in the city.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Steven Hirsch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the launch this week of a pan-progressive <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/20\/new-yorks-left-disarray-eric-adams-00018688\">alliance named \u201cThe People\u2019s Plan,\u201d<\/a> Adams\u2019 indifference to left-leaning opposition may soon become harder. But as a former cop \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/07\/21\/486892032\/an-african-american-police-officer-on-his-choice-to-be-a-voice-for-change\">and teenage victim of police brutality<\/a> \u2014 his unique ability to speak to minorities will retain its potency for as long as he remains, well, a minority (a status he\u2019s unlikely to concede anytime soon). <\/p>\n<p>For nearly two centuries, Americans have preached the virtues of<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/within-these-walls\/caldwells\/reform-begins-home#:~:text=In%20the%201800s%2C%20a%20new,in%20an%20uplifting%20home%20environment.\"> \u201cactivism beginning at home.\u201d<\/a> For Mayor Adams, this message truly is a matter of life or death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>David Kaufman is a writer and editor who covers politics, culture and finance. <\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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