{"id":465569,"date":"2022-06-19T22:35:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-says-nyc-need-to-do-better-in-juneteenth-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:35:27","slug":"eric-adams-says-nyc-need-to-do-better-in-juneteenth-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-says-nyc-need-to-do-better-in-juneteenth-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams says NYC need to &#8216;do better&#8217; in Juneteenth speech"},"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-6a28a82e1bee7\" 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-6a28a82e1bee7\" 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-says-nyc-need-to-do-better-in-juneteenth-speech\/#%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_says_NYC_need_to_%E2%80%98do_better_in_Juneteenth_speech%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Eric Adams says NYC need to &#8216;do better&#8217; in Juneteenth speech&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_says_NYC_need_to_%E2%80%98do_better_in_Juneteenth_speech%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Eric Adams says NYC need to &#8216;do better&#8217; in Juneteenth speech&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>New York City needs to \u201cdo better\u201d in preventing black residents from being driven out of their neighborhoods, Mayor Eric Adams said on Sunday, during an address marking the Juneteenth holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Central Park, Adams compared the modern-day uprooting of people of color from neighborhoods across the US \u2014 including the five boroughs \u2014 to slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen\u00a0I was in Ghana last year, [I] saw how families were displaced, torn apart and brought over to America through slavery in the hulls of the ships, living in dungeons, spending months and months living in their human waste, having their babies taken from them, and saw them dispersed and displaced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s no different here,\u201d Adams told the crowd at the Central Park Conservancy\u2019s Juneteenth Celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot look in the rear view mirror and say we should have done better when we are here right now,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s do better right now. Let\u2019s acknowledge the presence of people to be part of the community that they built.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor pointed to Seneca Village, which was established in 1825 in the western portions of what is now Central Park, and became home to more than 200 free black people \u2014 who were evicted about 30 years later to make way for the iconic Manhattan green space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine being displaced over and over and over again,\u201d Adams said. \u201cWhen this village was torn apart to build this park, we displaced the energy of Seneca Village. It never came back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/seneca-village-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Speaking in Central Park, Adams compared the modern-day uprooting of people of color from neighborhoods across the US -- including the five boroughs -- to slavery.\" class=\"wp-image-22723913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/seneca-village-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/seneca-village-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/seneca-village-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Speaking in Central Park, Adams compared the modern-day uprooting of people of color from neighborhoods across the US \u2014 including the five boroughs \u2014 to slavery.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michael Noble Jr. for The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not commemorate Seneca Village when we\u2019re creating another destruction of a Seneca Village,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should think about that as we jog through here as we watch this beautiful space that [Frederick] Olmsted built, as we look at how great this Central Park is in the center of Manhattan, we displaced some families here. We destroyed lives,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cThere were families here long before Starbucks. They were here, and they provided a foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black communities in the area were forced to move and rebuild in other neighborhoods, such as Harlem, downtown Brooklyn and Bedford Stuyvesant, Adams said, adding, \u201cAnd now what\u2019s h<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>ening now? We\u2019re displacing them again.\u201d<\/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\/06\/mayor-adams-02-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"May Eric Adams commemorates Juneteenth in NYC.\" class=\"wp-image-22724072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-02-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-02-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/mayor-adams-02-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York City needs to \u201cdo better\u201d in preventing black residents from being driven out of their neighborhoods, Mayor Eric Adams said  during an address marking the Juneteenth holiday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\/@NYCMayor<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo one wanted this land. This land was not attractive. No one wanted Manhattan,\u201d Adams added, referencing less prosperous decades in New York City\u2019s history. \u201cThese churches left here to have to go and build in other locations like Harlem, downtown Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, New York City\u2019s second black mayor, noted that black Americans have in recent decades been forced out of neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta \u2014 communities he lamented had been met with \u201cdestruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting anew over and over again, and we wonder why we see some of the crises that we\u2019re facing in black in brown communities,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery time they were able to have a foothold, they were displaced again. As soon as you started to build something, it was torn apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Adams \u2014 who in April announced Juneteenth would be a paid holiday for municipal workers \u2014 encouraged the roughly 40 attendees to not just reflect on the past but to also make sure it does not repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s educate our children so that they know that there were folks who were here that built this city that we call New York,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Juneteenth, one off America\u2019s oldest holidays, marks the official end of slavery in the US on the date in 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the last remaining Confederate sympathizers that they lost the Civil War, so all slaves needed be freed. In June 2021,\u00a0Juneteenth became\u00a0the 12th federal holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Adams on Saturday started the weekend with a visit to\u00a0a synagogue in the Hamptons.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Sunday, the mayor\u2019s office announced that City Hall and several other buildings will on Sunday and Monday evenings be lit red, black, and green \u2014 the color of the Pan-African flag \u2014 to pay tribute to the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this Juneteenth, we proudly say Black history is American history,\u201d Adams said in a press release. \u201cToday is a moment to remember and celebrate the countless contributions of Black Americans to our country, while simultaneously recognizing the many sacrifices and hardships our community has faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope all New Yorkers will join with me in acknowledging the freedom Black Americans were denied for far too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The municipal buildings set to be lit red, black and green are Bronx Borough Hall, The David N. 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