Zohran Mamdani: “Muslims in this city, for almost as long as we have been in…”

“What do you think of Sid Rosenberg? He used the term cockroach. I know. Your police commissioner had dinner with him. So Muslims in this city, for almost as long as we have been in this city, have had to deal with those with power and platform dehumanizing us. and to be called animals, insects, to be called a jihadist mayor, to be called a cockroach. This language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker, but also as someone who was born in East Africa.” (00:13–00:27)

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