Zohran Mamdani: “We saw the population of black children and teenagers drop…”

“… South Carolina, where they worship at a church in New Jersey or in Connecticut, where in the last few decades, this city has lost about 200,000 of its black residents. We saw the population of black children and teenagers drop precipitously from 2010 to 2019. And that is a function of the inability of city leadership to reckon with the most pressing crisis at hand, which is ensuring this is a city that everyone can afford.” (00:35–00:43)

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