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The Racial Ridiculousness Inside the Andrew Cuomo Circus
Black Cuomo supporters are trying to paint a parallel between Emmett Till, the Central Park Five, and New York’s governor. No, seriously.
One of the greatest weapons of systemic racism in America is the allied minds of Black people. In colloquial terms, sometimes it be your own people.
Albany, New York was a lava pit of exemplification last week, when the fight over whether New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should leave office after several accusations of sexual misconduct — the most recent and damning coming from his current aide — turned disrespectful. In an attempt to dissuade the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee from sanctioning an impeachment against Cuomo, Black supporters within the Democratic Party used analogies that were offensive to their own racial history. It was an unbelievable week.
Monday morning, PoliticsNY published an article bearing the headline “Exclusive: Black Female Ex-Cuomo Employee Questions Sexual Harassment Allegations.” (As if Black women are judge and jury for sexual offenses against women.) The piece centered on two Black women who previously worked with Cuomo: Harlem Assemblywoman Inez Dickens (D–Manhattan) and a second woman who remained anonymous. Both expressed concern that requests for the governor’s resignation or removal by party constituents could taint any investigation. But it was the latter who extended her Black card way past the limit.
The source attempted to place Cuomo’s Italian lineage under the same light as Black and Brown males who were wrongfully accused by White women and consequently punished inhumanely. The mystery woman shot heavy-handed lines like, “The history of White woman allegations is still given number one preference over anything.” In the midst, she — presumably in concert with the writer — compared the “railroad” job being exacted on Cuomo to America’s historic fear and subsequent destruction of Black males.
“Historically, White women’s unsubstantiated claims that Black males were propositioning, whistled at [sic] at or ‘recklessly eyeballing,’ them led to hundreds, if not thousands of Black males being brutally lynched and murdered — most notably 14-year-old Emmett…
