New York City Mayor Eric Adams compared an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor to a plantation owner after she complained about rising rents in New York.
The exchange took place during a town hall meeting in the Washington Heights neighborhood on Wednesday.
In response to questions raised by Jeanie Dubnau, an assistant professor of biology at Rutgers University and decades long tenant advocate, Adams said: “Okay, first, if you’re going to ask a question, don’t point at me and don’t be disrespectful to me. I’m the mayor of this city and treat me with the respect I deserve to be treated.”
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He continued: “I’m speaking to you as an adult. Don’t stand in front like you treated someone that’s on the plantation that you own”
Jeanie Dubnau was born in Belgium after her parents fled Nazi Germany. She is well known in New York as an advocate for tenants’ rights as the co-founder of the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (RENA).
According to The New York Post Dubnau said that Adams’ response to her was merely “to avoid accountability for his policies:
He didn’t have an answer,” she said. “That was just a deflection that’s all, because he doesn’t have any answers.”
“He’s a landlord himself. He said, ‘Oh, I don’t raise the rent on my own tenants.’ Who cares about his own personal tenants? He’s raising the rents on thousands and thousands of people in New York City.”
Dubnau said Wednesday’s meeting proved that Adams is “an enemy of all the rent-stabilized tenants in New York City.”
“You know, Mayor Adams is a landlord stooge and the enemy of tenants in New York City,” she said. “He gets millions of dollars from real estate.
“That’s the main issue here.”
She also isn’t holding her breath for an apology from the former NYPD captain.
“Oh, he’s not going to apologize,” she said. “I mean, you know the mayor. He thinks he’s the greatest and doesn’t want to be criticized.”
Adams spokesperson Fabien Levy defended Hizzoner’s outburst — saying “this administration has invested more money for housing than any in New York City history.”
“The mayor’s comments are the mayor’s comments. We stand by the mayor’s comments,” Levy said.
Dubnau was born in Belgium shortly after her parents fled the terrors of the Nazi regime in Germany.
After hiding out in Belgium and France throughout World War II, she and her parents emigrated to New York City when she was 8 years old and has resided in the Big Apple ever since.
Now a volunteer tenant organizer since 1960 and the current chairwoman of Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, Dubnau has publicly taken other mayors to task before.
NYC is run by the Jesuits and that’s why it’s HQs for their General They are MILITARY . The mayor is way down the ladder He’s like a messenger boy .
Is this NOT delusional HATE-SPEECH… anyone???
Holocaust is a HOAX.
Fool my grandparents were there you idiotic retard
I sippise yoyrs were in lrison or working har in tne ,9cal knock shop .
“my grandparents were there” NOBODY CARES. 100s of millions of native Americans were killed when this country was conquered and they don’t do a fraction of the whining j€ws do.
A CIA FOIA document released in 1975 stating j€ws wanted to remove the religion question from the 1960 census because it proved in 1950 well over 10 MILLION j€ws came to America as illegal immigrants during the 1940s “holocaust.” In other words J€WS LIED. About WWII persecution and the holocaust. You’re a freakish pack of snake oil dirtbags.
You and your black slave race can f-ck right off with all your victimhood demands for privilege. You all have upended EVERY peaceful society on earth with your non-stop lies. I hope you all get what’s coming to you.
These useless Simians don’t belong in a civilized society.
You don’t Your not.
For the hundredth time you phucking moron, it’s “you’re” not “your” Learn what a phucking contraction is before you criticize someone else.
The definition of “holocaust survivor” is anyone Jewish person who lived during the time of WW2.
It is just another deceitful trick the ‘chosen’ people use.
At least we know that slavery was a real thing that happened.
When all the lies are demolished, the TRUTH will still stand tall.
Other than those ships owned by the DeWolfe & Potter family, we do know for a fact that each and every slave ship was owned by Jewish people. The same goes for the majority of the slave plantations, in the US and the Caribbean. They traded Rum made on their slave plantations in the Caribbean, to Africans to buy even more slaves to sell to the Americans.
Rubbish.
You imbecile fake identified transparency .The slave trade was done throughout the Empire insert the Crown law of Catholic Edward the Confessor unless they switched the coronation crown at some stage that they’ve kept secret Othetwise regardless of the church of e gland the law throughput the British Empire had been under the Catholic Crown.Thats what legalised the trade If pixies in your head owned the slave boats makes no difference the fact is they were operating a legal business under the British Crown Law .Who bought the slaves is TOTALLY irrelevant also .They were law ABIDING SUBJECTS of the King .
Slavery at that time,e had never been illegal anywhere The fact it wasn’t everywhere was simply because the class structure under monarchies was such that they always had plenty of labour at cheap prices anyway in their peasants class.Theybdidnt need to buy what they could have for free But because they expanded America so fast they heeded labour as they did in the sugar plantations in Caribbean treasure islands .All as subjects of the King of England, not as citizens .
Fast forward to once slavery was made illegal for the first time in history ,then suddenly they had to start taking prisoners to Australia as labour They were cheaper than slave’s, they were free, and they didn’t have to be cared fir thevway slave’s had to be under the law. They could be locked in cells denied family ,worked till they dropped ,fed crap, and had ho legal rights at all .They were a real bargain .Still are right now today prisoner in his majesties hotel here in this state earns 64 dollars a week working in the prison factory for 40 hours , and is grateful because otherwise they couldn’t buy any tobacco or sweets.
Ha,ha. Another douche bag politician that thinks he is royalty.
Hilarious.
Roseanne responds to the hateful accusations You tube.
And again these interviewers are so conniving or stupid or both So often they have guests with great experience insight wisdom and they lock them down into their petty intentions either because they’re stupid or evil.
So often the speaker makes a huge point opening the discussion into extremely pertinent areas and the interviewee just slams the door shut in their face The guest and the audience It’s repugnant.
That’s what Eric Adams needs, 40 acres, a tractor and a sack of cotton seeds.
Maybe he can do a better job there than as NYC Mayor.