Rev. Al Sharpton convened top Black city and state elected officials for a summit to discuss public safety.
The leaders will privately met in Harlem Thursday evening and marking the first such meeting of New York’s Black leaders, who hold more citywide and statewide offices than ever before.
In December, Sharpton called for the meeting given the historic milestone. Some of the elected officials that attended include Mayor Eric Adams, State Attorney General Letitia James, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.
“We have more Blacks in power than Adam Clayton Powell could have ever dreamed about,” Sharpton said in a published interview “There has to be some way we can all sit down and say, ‘We may not agree on these 10 things but we can agree on these three things.”
Together we are strongest. May this be the beginning of bigger and better collaborative efforts, which could redound to the benefit of the Blacks and Hispanics in New York City and State.
To witness black political, community and religious leaders work together as public safety officers to find ways to protect the general public, is definitely a step in the right direction.
Yes, there are many more black politicians in New York then ever before, but that doesn’t equate to black political power.
I’ll go a step further and say we have no Black political power left in NYC. Not when we are fighting for everyone else and watching all of these other groups benefit from our efforts while we (Black New Yorkers) are left behind.
Can you name any other group or race, whose communities have been torn apart to accommodate everyone else’s?
Can we address how Al Sharpton’s 145th street storefront is a dump? All the money he uses on his suits but no capital improvements on the facade @ his storefront church of injustice
For more details see “Here’s What Eric Adams and NYC’s New Black Leaders Need to Do” – For this generation to avoid the mistakes and pitfalls of previous ones, they have to start with an urgent agenda of economic development. https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-eric-adams-and-nycs-new-black-leaders-need-to-do