Zohran Mamdani: “The population of black children and teenagers down by 19%…”

“For all of the conversation around fear of capital flight, there's a real flight that has happened. We've lost 200,000 black New Yorkers from New York City over the last few decades alone. The population of black children and teenagers down by 19% from 2010 to 2019. And that is a hollowing out of this city. So many of the most iconic black neighborhoods now seem more iconic for the history than what the future could hold because of that fear of displacement.” (06:48–06:54)

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