Shahana Hanif’s historic win in 2021 — she was the first Muslim woman elected to City Council in District 39 which includes Kensington, where she was born and raised, as well as Park Slope — and her astounding re-election campaign this year — in which she got 70% of the vote despite an opponent backed by the same billionaires who attacked Mamdani and who relied on the same hateful Islamophobia and false accusations of antisemitism — definitely helped jump-start the increase in the participation of Bangladeshi-American voters.
How can anyone look at the Mamdani election and not be proud to be an American? I am a white male with family roots in Scotland/Ireland, but I smile when I see non-white faces showing their eagerness to vote because I see the humanity that we share in those faces.
I am dismayed to see that Staten Island with a 60% white majority went strongly for Cuomo. How blind and fearful can you be? Thanks to all who have made it likely we've seen the last of Cuomo and who, no doubt, endorse Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty as every American should. MAGA? It is better to say make America greater than it has ever been. Mamdani shows the way to do it.
Shahana Hanif’s historic win in 2021 — she was the first Muslim woman elected to City Council in District 39 which includes Kensington, where she was born and raised, as well as Park Slope — and her astounding re-election campaign this year — in which she got 70% of the vote despite an opponent backed by the same billionaires who attacked Mamdani and who relied on the same hateful Islamophobia and false accusations of antisemitism — definitely helped jump-start the increase in the participation of Bangladeshi-American voters.
Stories like this are what keep my faith in humanity alive.
How can anyone look at the Mamdani election and not be proud to be an American? I am a white male with family roots in Scotland/Ireland, but I smile when I see non-white faces showing their eagerness to vote because I see the humanity that we share in those faces.
I am dismayed to see that Staten Island with a 60% white majority went strongly for Cuomo. How blind and fearful can you be? Thanks to all who have made it likely we've seen the last of Cuomo and who, no doubt, endorse Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty as every American should. MAGA? It is better to say make America greater than it has ever been. Mamdani shows the way to do it.