Zohran Mamdani: “Our city has lost 200,000 black New Yorkers over the past…”

“There already is a flight. It's just of working class people. And we know that the racial dynamics of this are also immense. Right. We've seen over the past few decades, Our city has lost 200,000 black New Yorkers over the past few decades. population of black children and teenagers declined by 19%. And you can feel that in this city, in neighborhoods that are shells of what they once were, and small businesses …” (38:43–38:48)

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