{"id":6431,"date":"2020-06-11T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-pulls-race-card-to-defend-wife-chirlane-mccrays-administrative-role\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:33:00","slug":"de-blasio-pulls-race-card-to-defend-wife-chirlane-mccrays-administrative-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-pulls-race-card-to-defend-wife-chirlane-mccrays-administrative-role\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio pulls race card to defend wife Chirlane McCray\u2019s administrative role"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio pulls race card to defend wife Chirlane McCray\u2019s administrative role<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 11, 2020 |<\/span> 4:33pm <\/p>\n

\n Mayor Bill de Blasio pulled the race card to defend wife Chirlane McCray\u2019s prominent role in his administration on everything from the city\u2019s coronavirus response to slashing the NYPD\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been critics from the beginning,\u201d de Blasio said during his daily briefing Thursday when asked about concerns that he\u2019s crediting her with the decision to shift money from cops to youth services to boost her future political career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019re uncomfortable because she\u2019s a woman or an African American or an African American woman,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McCray, who was at the briefing trumpeting her new plan to help mom-and-pop restaurants in minority communities recover from the coronavirus pandemic, said she actually doesn\u2019t enjoy the public platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not someone who thrives in the limelight. I don\u2019t, like, need the attention of both being in front of the cameras. In fact, it\u2019s very difficult for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do what I do because I care about people. I care deeply about these brown and black communities that have been affected disproportionately by the COVID-19 virus,\u201d McCray said.<\/p>\n

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit the city McCray said she was considering running for Brooklyn borough president and began launching city-funded initiatives in Kings County.<\/p>\n

One of her most vocal critics is Councilman Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn), who\u2019s also running to become the next Brooklyn borough president.<\/p>\n

Reynoso, who is of Afro-Caribbean descent, blasted the couple.<\/p>\n

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Bill de Blasio speaks alongside his wife Chirlane McCray during a memorial service for George Floyd at Cadman Plaza Park in the Brooklyn, NY.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhile the mayor continues to play politics with his family and ignores the demands of New Yorkers, I have been on the steps of City Hall since I took office, standing side by side with New Yorkers of good conscience<\/a>, demanding repeal of 50-A, demanding the firing of Daniel Pantaleo, demanding the passage of the Right-Know-Act and the chokehold bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mayor fought us at every turn and Chirlane stayed silent,\u201d Reynoso said.<\/p>\n

A council source, who asked for anonymity because he was afraid of making McCray an underdog in the race, called de Blasio\u2019s use of race to answer the question \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at where the loudest criticism has come, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

He noted that Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who is also black, accused the mayor of using his biracial family as a political shield last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is me talking, like, you can no longer hide behind your black wife and children, not anymore,\u201d Williams said during a press conference live-streamed on Facebook<\/a> Friday. Williams\u2019 rebuke came a day after de Blasio was booed off the stage at a George Floyd memorial in Brooklyn for his handling of anti-police brutality protests in the Big App<\/a>le.<\/p>\n

Female minority members of de Blasio\u2019s staff recently penned a letter lobbing similar attacks on the mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral of de Blasio\u2019s ex and current staffers said that he has a penchant for naming his black wife and children in staff emails and public statements when he wants to shield himself from criticisms from people of color on his staff,\u201d according to The Root, which obtained an exclusive copy of the missive.<\/p>\n

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