Fake Black Power, Eric Adams, and Mamdani

As a former New York City resident, I have been closely watching the developments in mayoral race as the power struggle is about so much more than New York City’s geography boundaries. The race is a proxy fight for the future of the Democratic Party, America’s foreign policy orientation, and its domestic lobbying architecture, that heavily influences elections in the United States.

The New York Times asked a question: What Adams’s Exit Means for Black Political Power in New York? 

Maybe Adams exit creates a path for more systemic change vs cosmetic changes

Could the billionaires such as Bill Ackman (who helped oust the former Harvard President over so-called DEI) and foreign-minded lobbyists really prefer the best option for Black American New York specifically? Are these the type of people that prioritize Black American teachers, bus drivers, small business owners, plumbers, and retail and union workers? What’s really going here?

This week, Eric Adams endorsed former New York Governor Cuomo, someone who he previously called a “snake and liar.” Cuomo and Adams teamed up this week in an attempt to scare New York over having a mayor who happens to be Muslim, Zohran Mamdani.

Like Hillary Clinton and political advisor Mark Penn did with Obama and the Turban and Obama’s team against Minnesota AG Keith Ellison (media operation to smear Ellison) and connect him to the NOI so Ellison would never become Chairman of the DNC), political tricknology has been operationalized to scare voters, using racial and religious fears.

Here is what Eric Adams said about Mamdani:

“You see what’s playing out in other countries because of Islamic extremism. Not Muslims let’s not mix this up, but those Islamic extremists that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings, and that’s what I’m fighting for.” (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Did you know a whole 22% of American Muslims live in New York City alone? Cuomo and Adams both ignoring this fact tells you a whole lot about New York City politics.

Could the side that’s firmly entrenched with the Democratic Party establishment insiders and anti-Black American billionaires and their smear campaigns against those of different faith, really be on the side of any transformational change in New York? Cuomo has a reputation for corruption. Eric Adams has a record of corruption. Fortunately for Adams, his CIA-trained lawyer Alex Spiro, also is a top lawyer for Elon Musk, while Musk was on the side locked up with President Trump. Adams was able to get a pardon.

Adams, a former cop and bodyguard for Al Sharpton, has a very long and credible history working towards positive policy changes that benefit Black Americans in New York City. Adams should get credit for standing up to the Democratic Party establishment on “wide open” illegal immigration. However, Adams being Mayor isn’t really “Black Power” or anything close to it.

When you look at the powerful corporate and foreign-minded political interests backing Adams, as “their man,” he can’t be the Black American Man too, the working-class Man, too. It can’t be “Black Power” when the forces and capital underneath and controlling the politician, are decisively anti-Black American. “Black Power” shouldn’t be defined cosmetically, based on identity. It must be defined by policy risk taking on behalf of Black Americans, against a Black American policy agenda. Eric Adams represents “business as usual” with no possibility of transformational change.

Based on the timing of Eric Adams meeting with Netanyahu, dropping out the race, and endorsing Cuomo, it’s a reasonable question to ask was he forced or pressured by powerful forces to drop out and smear Mamdani with anti-Muslim bigotry. Based on how systemically corrupt New York City politics is, it’s a reasonable question to ask whether Eric Adams received a “big bag” from powerful elites, to help stop Mamdani.

Real Black POWER, would shake up and strike fear in the same billionaires and elites who love Eric Adams, would threaten the existing orthodoxy, not shine their shoes. Those that are underneath Adams, wouldn’t think for a second what’s best for Black American interests in New York, they are only concerned about their own interests.

In my book, Science vs Spook, 50 Lessons in Black American Politics and Culture, I argue Black America should materially discount the identity wrapper of politicians and measure them by policy risk taking on behalf of Black Americans, against a Black American agenda. I also argue it would have been better for us to treat the first Kenyan-American President, Barack Obama, white, and have focused more on his policy risk taking for Black Americans. If Barack Obama was going to trigger extreme whitelash against the whole of Black America and make everyone think America was progressing because of his identity, then we had better get more material for that trade, more benefits, for the extreme costs.

I provide a framework for looking at the “political cap table”: who are the investors, underneath the politician, to help us better understand their conflicts of interests and the areas they are most compromised. The real power is in “the back” and we should focus more on who is UNDERNEATH the politician as tricknology operations run against Black America, at the structural/systems level, can be more deceptive and manipulative in Black FACE. Eric Adams is no Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Summer Lee, or Jesse Jackson. Adams is the perfect expression of what the powerful elites are comfortable with, something that doesn’t threaten existing systems and keeps the existing structures, heavily skewed towards the billionaire elite and systemic corruption, exactly how they are.

The same elite networks backing Adams and Cuomo are compromised in the Epstein files. Another way to look at the New York City Mayoral race is which candidate is more likely to help cover up a powerful billionaire sex trafficking network and the Epstein files? Whose backing Adams and who is underneath him (and his orientation towards systemic corruption) is so much more important than his identity.

Don’t be shocked if a national statement is made on November 4th with heavy turnout (vs consensus estimates) against the “business as usual” corrupt establishment in New York City. The sophisticated media operations and strategic moves by powerful elites down the stretch will likely backfire and increase Mamdani’s momentum.

SCIENCE VS SPOOK: 50 LESSONS IN BLACK AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND CULTURE will help you detect fake/cosmetic Black Power and how powerful elites use Black politicians as FRONTS, for their own agenda.