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Eric Adams has once again demonstrated he is not to be taken seriously and should resign immediately.
Hear me out.
Code-switching is a Black person’s ability to speak the King’s English in certain situations while also being thoroughly versed in African American Vernacular English. This can usually be observed in action during a job interview or anytime a Black person is pulled over by the police.
But what is it called when a Black person speaks AAVE around a group of white people?
Because that’s exactly what embattled N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams spoke Wednesday night during a Rockaway town hall when he noted, “There’s a real history for me, I had a shorty that lived out here.”
But he didn’t stop there as he continued: “I used to come out… Taking that long A-train ride, you know, in the cold. Love is blind, man. Taking that long, long A-train, I did not have a car. And one or two times I didn’t have a token, so yes I did jump over the turnstile. It’s over, the statute of limitation is over.”
Fam, someone come and get Eric Adams! He’s out here wildin’.
The only thing wilder than telling a group of old white people that you “had a shorty” who lived out in “Rockaway” is admitting that you didn’t have money and once hopped a turnstile, all the while knowing that you are the mayor who criminalized turnstile jumping.
“If we start saying it is alright for you to jump the turnstile we are creating an environment where anything and everything goes,” Adams said in March 2022.
Adams didn’t just declare war on fare evaders, he increased police officers in subway stations, which many believe led to a Sept. 15, 2024 incident that left four people shot -–- including a police officer –– after one of the shooting victims evaded a $2.90 fare.
So it’s infuriating to hear the man who overpoliced the subway looking to criminalize fare evading just jokingly admit that he’s evaded fares in his past. It’s this kind of “do as I say not as I did” politics that has helped make Eric Adams a national embarrassment.
On Sept. 26, 2024, Adams was indicted on five charges including fraud and bribery. A 57-page indictment claimed that Adams had a history of “corrupt acts going back a decade and says he was a willing agent for the Turkish government, trading influence for illegal campaign funds and free trips around the world,” USA Today reports.
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Adams then cozied himself up to the Trump administration claiming that both he and Trump were being unjustly persecuted.
Shortly after taking office, Trump pushed for his “Department of Justice…to drop criminal charges against Adams, in what many see as a blatant quid pro quo for getting Adams onboard as a political ally to a Donald Trump administration seemingly intent on launching a radical remaking of the American government,” the Guardian reports.
So it looks like Adams got his swagger back, and he’s taking his barbershop talk into town halls. Luckily, for him and the rest of America, no one seemed to know what the hell he was talking about or why he felt the need to share the intimate and personal details of his life.
But he’s done this before like in 2015, when he gave a graduation speech and thought that was a good time to tell those in attendance that he’s been outside outside.
“As the state senator and borough president, I’ve had the opportunity to date some of the most attractive women in this city,” he said. “And I’m not taking you anywhere with me to a $500 dinner if you’ve got two tattoos on your neck saying, ‘Lick me.’”
Umm..what? Sounds like Adams is out here hanging in the Bronx because I’m not sure where he’s finding these women with the neck tats, but I’m going to need him to simmer down as no one cares about his fictional dating life. I’m actually more concerned that he was once a young man who broke a trivial law and then became an old man that has no sympathy for those who may have no money and have a “shorty” in Rockaway so they hop a turnstile.
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