New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is not backing down on his “mission” to redistribute wealth, saying it is needed in order to rectify racism.
“If we think we’re going to deal with structural racism and segregation without redistributing wealth, we’re kidding ourselves. We’ve got to be real about nothing changes unless you put the resources behind it. And that’s what we’re doing,” de Blasio said during a press conference on Monday.
He also commended Fox News for its “fair and balanced coverage” of his previous comments on redistributing wealth.
“And Fox News apparently was very interested in that, and they quoted one of the sentences that I said. I said that we needed to recognize that [if] we’re going to address all this structural inequality, structural racism, we would actually have to do things differently. And so here’s the quote from Fox News summarizing. They said, ‘NYC mayor sees the redistribution of wealth as an important factor toward ending structural racism in education,’” he said.
“Exactly right. I don’t get to say it very often, but Fox News got it exactly right. Amen. We are going to fight structural racism through redistribution. So Fox News, congratulations. Fair and balanced coverage right there,” he added.
On Friday, de Blasio said it is “our mission is to redistribute wealth” within the city’s school system, adding, “A lot of people bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact, the phrase we need to use.”
Some, however, reacted to de Blasio’s initial comments by declaring that they don’t support communism on Twitter.
I reject communism. https://t.co/9PA7vpjPl5
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 19, 2020
Don’t ever let the Democrats say they’re not Communists. https://t.co/7Svjh2Srub
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 19, 2020
Say NO to communism. NOW. https://t.co/4qY291YLtD
— Dr. Kelli Ward ?? (@kelliwardaz) December 19, 2020
New Yorkers are fleeing his city and this is how he handles it? ?
Mayor de Blasio: “Our mission is to redistribute wealth”https://t.co/71fzDosmer
— Mary Vought (@MaryVought) December 19, 2020
