Re-Fashioning Society to Reflect 'Race Socialism'

"Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and white neighbourhoods."

"That is just a description of what we see right now. It's not driven by race."

"It's more of an assessment of what neighbourhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed."

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani 

 

"[The Mamdani family were wedded to] diasporic intellectualism, where ideas about justice, decolonization and identity were household conversations."

"[Mahmood Mamdani is one of the western world's more well-recognized scholars in the field of] postcolonial studies [with a special interest in Africa."

"His son Zohran would be] the first to carry the intellectual legacy of postcolonial Africa into the political heart of the West." 

Africa Report quarterly

 

Global left-wing politics is alive and well and evidently booming in New York City. Where the Democratic nominee for the mayoralty election espouses taxing the rich to benefit the city's poor. And the issue of 'race socialism' championed by Zohran Mamdani, steeped deep in left-wing politics, promises to set off an explosion of similar sentiments elsewhere, say for example Canada, where the far-left publication Canadian Dimension called for a wealth tax, linking it to race: "It's no secret that extreme wealth in western democracies is overwhelmingly held by white people, and Canada is no exception." 

 

A "critical tax theory" movement in North America argues that white taxpayers should pay higher taxes to achieve equity for all others. Zohran Mamdani increasingly appears the role model for a dystopian future of white versus colour, wealth versus poverty. Simply put, white imperial colonialists living grand on the land while their traditional victims, people of colour, indigenous and trapped in poverty, remain victimized by the ancestors of the colonists who trapped the original inhabitants of the land in a cycle of disadvantage.

 

Mamdani's family, heavyweights in the world of far-left academia, clearly shaped his outlook on life, as well as the solutions that are to be applied to correct all the wrongs of the world where there are sharp divisions between the haves and the have-nots. Simply yank most of the wealth from those that own it and transfer it to those that covet it. 

 

It's interesting to look at Africa in the wake of European rule collapse where wealth redistribution was meant to correct old wrongs. How well did countries like Uganda and Zimbabwe fare under their own agency, did they prosper, did all citizens share equally, did peace and prosperity march in when colonial rule marched out? In Uganda, Idi Amin looked at the minority entrepreneurial population of Asian Ugandans and cleansed the country of their presence, expropriating their businesses and confiscating their assets.

 

In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabwe supervised attacks against the white farming community with the intention of redistributing the land among native Zimbabweans. Those farms falling into the holds of his old comrades in 'resistance' against colonization, were left fallow. All the agricultural expertise and interest in farming the land gone with the white farmers who were dispossessed if not outright murdered. Food scarcity, sky-high inflation, currency devaluation followed. How now, brown cow? 

 

The West, and New York City in particular, is consumed with the narrative of the oppressed colonized and the unworthy imperialism of the colonizer. Ancestral guilt has been assigned to the descendants of Europeans who settled on the land already in possession of a native population. The English-speaking world now accepts that it bears the burden of colonialism and has much to atone for, in their guilt. In Australia, Canada, and Britain in particular the indigenous colonizer conflict is alive and well.

 

Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to political stardom bespeaks racial politics in conjunction with the socialist revival brought into raw play courtesy of Bernie Sanders and and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for whom the arrival of Zohran Mamdani heralds their dream of socially-virtuous, social-progressivism's time has finally arrived...  

 

New Yorkers are split on Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plans to raise taxes on the rich and corporations, according to a new poll. AFP via Getty Images

 

 

"Brothers ... We Are Going to NYC to Slaughter them Inshalah"

"Keep no beard and take the appearance of the kuffar."

"If were [sic] successful this is going to be one of the largest attacks ever on Jews outside of the Israeli territory in recent times."

"Our purpose is to sacrifice oursel[ves] so that the ... muslimeen can wake up and support the State 

[Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant: ISIL]."

"Brothers ...we are going to nyc to slaughter them Inshallah [if Allah wills it]."

"[If any of you] looks like an Ashkenazi Jew [do not] shave [their] beard or mustache [and] bring a Black coat pant and a white dress shirt [and] conceal ur phones when u go inside 'synagogue' and make videos."

"If u look like a Hasidic jew u can get in any time with a torah in the hand and [their] jew ou[t]fit."

"[Purchase] some good hunting [knives] so we can slit their throats."

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan

 

While Khan's co-conspirators were warned not to attract the attention of authorities before their planned onslaught in New York City with the purpose of violent carnage to kill as many Jews as possible, by clearing away facial hair that might arouse suspicions and lead to the failure of their terror attack, that advice went into reverse when he instructed them to use facial hair in a manner that would duplicate that of Jews to enable them to have access to Jewish centres or synagogues where Jews congregate, so they could be accepted on face value as Jews before launching their attack.

 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation via FBI special agent Khajae Hester posted a criminal complaint in a New York Court September 4, detailing the scheme that Khan prepared for his plan to lead off the largest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. Text messages and encrypted chat, unfortunately for Khan and fortunately for his intended victims, went to undercover FBI agents who had gained Khan's trust, portraying themselves as eager to partner with him in lethal terrorist attacks against sites in New York City crowded with Jews -- any Jews and all Jews. 

The Pakistani citizen, 20 years of age, was arrested last week in the Quebec town of Ormstown while he was en route to New York with the intention of entering the United States. Various conversations Khan had exchanged with those he understood were co-conspirators but who in reality are two undercover officers and an FBI informant, were released in documents presented at court. The linkage between the FBI informant began last November with Khan meeting the undercover officers on an encrypted online social media platform in July, when he spoke of creating a "real offline cell" for an ISIL-inspired terror attack.

Khan was drawn to New York City, as having the largest number of Jewish residents outside of Israel, believing it was very "unprotected" with Jews "walking around" everywhere, ripe for attack. In preparation for the attack, Khan suggested that his co-conspirators should visit the target area, dressed in garb that resembled outfits worn by Hasidic Jews, since their target we to be "ultra orthodox hasidic Jews world headquarters". 

The planned date of the attack was to be October 7, as the first-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack on southern Israel's farming communities where a raging bloodfest of rape, torture, mutilations, murder and hostage-taking created a hell on earth for ordinary Israeli civilians living near the Gaza border. The symbolism of an expression of Islamist death-wishes for Jews wherever they live as enemies of Islam ripe for slaughter, as a gift from the faithful to the basic tenets of their religion.

His plot revealed, and the man under arrest facing three charges in Canada and extradition to the United States where he faces a charge of attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the government of Canada is now being asked for answers from their Parliamentary opponents as to why, in the space of under two weeks, two such apprehensions of Islamist terrorists somehow having bypassed Canadian intelligence inspections, were allowed to enter Canada and from that base, plot vicious terrorist attacks in Canada and the United States on behalf of the Islamic State.

Coincidentally at the very time that Islamists living in Canada as landed immigrants and citizens, as well as refugees and illegal migrants have been marching in the streets demanding that Canada censure Israel for the conflict in Gaza that Hamas terrorists initiated, with sadistic savagery. Where decades of infiltration by Palestinian and Arab academics in Canadian universities have been enabled for underground antisemitism to teach a virulent curriculum of oppressor and oppressed which Israel and Palestinians are meant to represent respectively, indoctrinating student populations who become themselves raging 'activists' in support of terrorism.

Anti-Israel protesters are seen shortly before being evicted from their encampment at the University of Toronto on July 3, 2024. Photo by Jack Boland / Postmedia News

Migrant Crisis in New York City

"If you're going to leave your country, go somewhere else."  

"We have to let the word out that when you come to New York, you’re not going to have more hotel rooms.We don’t have capacity, so we have to also message properly." 

"The smarter thing is to apply for asylum before you leave your country."

"[It was never meant to ensure] an unlimited, universal right or obligation on the city to have to house literally the entire world."

"[Places like New York] really are at capacity. We have large hearts. You want to be generous and supportive to people who are experiencing humanitarian crisis, but there is a limit to what we can do."

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul

Anti-migrant protesters demonstrate outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on Friday. (Barry Williams for NY Daily News via Getty Images)

"This is a crisis of their own making [Democratic lawmakers]."

"It's very similar to cashless bail. When you create a sanctuary city policy that invites migrants to come regardless of their status, you are going to get a lot of people coming, and now they can't handle the influx."

Republican Representative Mike Lawler

"The No.1 thing I learned as an Army officer: When in charge, take charge."

"We are in a crisis, the president is in charge, and he and his team need to take charge."

Democratic Representative Pat Ryan

"Everybody understands this is a potential liability [the migrant crisis in view of an upcoming general election]."

"I know there's been a lot of finger-pointing and kerfuffles, but there's also pretty good evidence the mayor and the governor are trying to figure out how to solve this."

Democratic consultant Tim Persico

Migrants are pictured outside the Roosevelt Hotel, currently being used as a shelter, in New York City. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

In fact, New York felt so desperately overwhelmed by the ongoing flood of seemingly unstoppable arrivals who accepted the challenge from the Texas border with Mexico to travel on to sympathetic Democratic cities like New York, with its sympathetic credentials, they even bused them there. And New York in turn convinced new arrivals they'd be better off continuing their journey and to cross the New York border in Canada at Quebec, to which purpose they too bused unwanted migrants to the border where taxis were only too eager to bring them to Roxham Road where they could foot it into Quebec.

There, thousands of migrants, making their way to illegal crossings, ignoring the legitimate crossings where they would be questioned and when declaring themselves 'refugees' would be returned to the American side, reflective of a 'safe first border' agreement between the two countries where migrants were to be returned to their first country of entrance. In bypassing the legitimate border crossing and declaring themselves refugees, the RCMP escort them to an official Border crossing where they fill out applications for refugee status.

And then their accommodation and humanitarian social services become the headache of whichever Canadian community they wander into, where their numbers have created problems so great that many are forced to sleep out on the streets of cities like Toronto, unable to support and house any more migrants, and where their presence and humanitarian needs compete with Canadian families in dire need of supported housing and other public social measures.

 

The camping migrants didn’t want to move out of fear they would lose their spot in line CNN

 

During the current election season in the United States drawing ever closer, migrants and the need to give them haven, despite efforts to restrain them from crossing the border from Mexico, has become a conflicting political issue moving to impact the 2024 U.S. election. With Republicans increasingly critical of the Democrats' inability to stem the flow of migrants, hoping to use the issue and the rising tide of voters' anger at the disruptions to give them the political leverage they need to secure the House majority.

New York has seen a rapid arrival of over 100,000 asylum-seekers, wreaking havoc on government budgets, and turning Democrats against one another in their hapless efforts to stem the tide. Republicans whose election status seemed less than assured in a half-dozen districts now view the volatile issue as a lifeline. Where they point the electorate toward the picture of a Democratic party incapable of governing adequately and coping with the dilemma.

For their part, Democratic candidates have clashed with their Republican counterparts, but also with their own party leaders, President Biden included. The lone front-line Democrat who survived the Republican suburban victories in the 2022 midterm elections has made peace with two Republicans, the trio demanding that Biden declare a state of emergency. Paul Ryan broke with his party in support of a bill to discourage schools from sheltering migrants.

Another Democrat trying to take a neighbouring district spoke of the "offensive" aloofness of the Democratic president, on the pressing refugee issue. He was joined by a former Democratic congressman mounting a comeback attempt of his own, warning of "consequences at the polls" should his party not step up to a solution. The issue that drives them, where almost three thousand migrants arrive in a week has shifted battle lines.

 

Migrants accept apples as they camp outside the Roosevelt Hotel.  CNN

 

The irony is that New York while a city acknowledged as a bastion for immigrants has seen a challenge to its political system. It is currently housing approximately 59,000 asylum-seekers nightly, reflecting a unique right-to-shelter mandate dating back decades, while preparing to enroll some 19,000 migrant children this fall in public schools. Temporary shelters in hotels, parks, on public land have prompted harsh protests.

While New York City Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly warns of budget cuts caused by the cost of caring for the newcomers which keep rising into billions of dollars of taxpayer money that could otherwise be used to help New Yorkers themselves, as the Republicans helpfully point out. A recent poll found 82 percent of registered voters consider the migrant influx a "serious problem", with a majority stating that their state had "already done enough" for asylum seekers and should focus on curtailing their arrivals.

"Let me tell you something New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to — I don’t see an ending to this."

"This issue will destroy New York City."

Mayor Eric Adams

Migrants line up along 45th Street.  CNN

 

Onward, Migrant Horde!

"We found that people had other destinations, but they were being compelled only to come to New York City, and we are assisting in interviewing those who seek to go somewhere else."

"Some want to go to Canada, some want to go to warmer states, and we are there for them as they continue to move on with their pursuit of this dream."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams

 

"A lot of the Americans used drugs there. I feel like Canada will be safer. It is a much quieter country than America."

"It is very difficult to get papers in America. I need to work, so I am going to Canada."

Migrant Manuel Rodon, 26, Venezuelan

 

"The military gave me and my family free bus tickets"

" I am going to Canada for a better quality of life for my family."

Migrant Raymond Pena, Venezuelan

 

"Word has spread among the migrant community [that Canada - where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touted the country's] proud and longstanding tradition of welcoming people seeking safety [is the place to go]."

“Mayor Eric Adams’s administration pays various companies that run programs for migrants that include ‘re-ticketing’ so they can travel to other cities, a City Hall source said."

New York Post

Recent immigrants to the United States talk to city officials in front of the Watson Hotel in New York, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. The immigrants, mostly from Venezuela and other Latin American countries, had been living in the hotel until recently, when they were told to leave the temporary shelter. Photo by Seth Wenig /AP

 U.S. States adjacent the border with Mexico developed a strategy whereby they bus illegal migrants that enter their states, deep into the heart of the United States, to Democratic states that have been sanctimoniously condemnatory of their Republican brother-states unwilling to absorb the ongoing presence of increasing numbers of seemingly unstoppable illegal entrants to the United States. To solve their own problems partially and to stamp 'pay-back', bus loads of migrants have been arriving in New York City which now claims it has no space left to house and care for the migrants.

And while New York City is understandably enraged over the perfidy of Texas sending illegal migrants onward to become their problem, the city has discovered a nifty new way of alleviating their own problem. By doing precisely what Texas has been engaged in. Only they're not sending the migrants back to Texas, they're floating the benefits of entering Canada to claim asylum there where they can find a new prosperous and secure life in a country built on immigration.

Immigration, that is, not illegal entry of unauthorized migrants. The way to enter any country as a desired destination is and always has been legally. Applying for visas, applying to become an immigrant. Canada invests millions in accepting immigrants from all over the world. It has an economy dependent on a labour force, but an aging population, one that is not replacing itself by natural means, with a steadily falling birthrate. Immigration to Canada has been averaging a third of a million people annually. 

Asylum seekers talk to a police officer as they cross into Canada from the U.S. border near a checkpoint on Roxham Road near Hemmingford, Quebec, April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

 

 Canada has its own problems in absorption of such huge numbers. Settling them in is extremely costly on the social welfare system, the universal medicare system, and the fact that there is insufficient public housing for people as things stand now, and housing is scarce and prohibitively expensive. The health care system has taken a beating since the pandemic and is having problems catching up to the level of service considered minimal. Adding tens of thousands of unwanted people entering illegally to declare the need for haven comes at a rather awkward time, to say the least.

But those buses from New York taking passengers representing illegal migrants to the border with Canada keep coming. And only now is it being revealed that delivering passengers by cab companies who take over as the buses debus the passengers, to enable them to access illegal entry border areas, bypassing official entry points continues. To the sum of an average of 39,000 annual illegal entries to Quebec alone, in the past several years.

Taxi drivers wait for migrants at the Plattsburgh terminus with signs indicating they will drive to Roxham Road. (Romain Schué/Radio-Canada)

Reports have emerged that migrants resort to tearing up their American immigration documents as they travel from Plattsburgh, New York, to the Canadian border. Christine Frechette, Quebec's immigration minister, "surprised" to discover the plan hatched by New York City, turns to the federal government to reach a solution to the problem at Roxham Road, used as an unofficial border crossing south of Montreal, enabling tens of thousands to cross into Canada to claim asylum. These asylum-seekers are not turned away; by Canadian law they complete documents that will be assessed and either accepted or rejected. In the meanwhile, they are able to live in Canada, assisted by social services.

In cities like Toronto, temporary housing for the homeless is being compromised as are other levels of social services by illegal migrants requiring similar assistance. If New York City finds itself overwhelmed by the burden of caring for tens of thousands of migrants whose human needs cannot be ignored, it must realize that cities like Montreal and Toronto face the same dilemma; disingenuously Mayor Adams claims to be just 'helping' the migrants get on in life . The idea being, to pass on the problems rather than face them and strategize a solution.

 

Luggage from migrants fills a pathway at an illegal crossing point from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que.. Quebec's immigration minister says she's surprised by reports that the City of New York is helping to provide free bus tickets to migrants heading north to claim asylum in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo/Charles Krupa