Zohran Mamdani seems to spend a lot more time in front of the cameras than he does working as the Mayor of New York City. In the most recent stop on his press tour, Mamdani was unable to rule out the possibility of imposing cash reparations on New Yorkers. "Here in New York, we were very complicit."
Mamdani won’t rule out cash reparations in NYC: “Here in New York City, we were very complicit. This is critically important. This is what it looks like to acknowledge what history truly was.” pic.twitter.com/zYRGveVVNJ
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 29, 2026
The DSA's fearless leader sat down with former NYT columnist and prominent progressive commentator Charles Blow for an interview that honed in on race, socialism, and all things woke—including the possibility of cash reparations.
Blow referenced a statement Mamdani wrote to a reparations committee during his campaign. In it, Mamdani wrote about New York's participation in the slave trade, saying, "The city should reconcile and repair this legacy of slavery, stolen wealth and discrimination." He added that he was proud to support the new reparations commission examining Wall Street’s complicity in the slave trade. Blow then asked Mamdani, "If a commission studying reparations in this city recommended cash reparations for people impacted in New York City, would you support that recommendation?"
"I stand by what I submitted," Mamdani responded. "The truth is it's not a personal assessment. We often think about slavery and the complicity of slavery as being exclusive to certain geographic areas of this country. Here in New York City, we were very complicit, and so I look forward to whatever those findings are," he said. "I can't give you an answer in advance of them, but I can tell you that this is critically important because this is also what it looks like to acknowledge what history truly was."
The only way to fund reparations, like much of Mamdani's agenda, is to radically increase taxes. So far, Mamdani's policies have resulted in an $11 billion loss.
Or, Mamdani himself could kick off reparations by selling his own estates.
We could start with profits from the sale of his mother’s $1.45 million pied-à-terre in NYC. He could also give up the family compound in Uganda and return it to the people of Africa. But Marxist commissars are always exempt from their own edicts. https://t.co/QcyIX6GFmM
— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) July 29, 2026
Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists are so radical that Mamdani's consideration of imposing cash reparations in the year 2026 doesn't even turn heads. What a scary direction to be headed in.