I find it hilarious how red avis here claim that a shift towards the GOP/away from Democrats among Latinos somehow isn’t happening. Then how do you explain rhetoric like this?
This statement would have seemed absolutely absurd in 2015.
Maybe, just maybe, this person has a history of making derogatory and racist statements against other minority groups?
In December 2013, one month before she was sworn in, a series of attacks took place targeting Jewish residents of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, totaling at least eight victims including children. The attacks were alleged to be part of a trend of "knockout attacks", and antisemitism was cited by a number of community leaders, politicians and media outlets as a precipitating factor.[12][13][14][15][16] Following the attacks, Cumbo publicly expressed that her African American and Afro-Caribbean constituents had expressed fear of being "pushed out of their homes by Jewish landlords", and that resentment towards the Jewish residents of Crown Heights "offer possible insight as to how young African-American/Caribbean teens could conceivably commit a 'hate crime' against a community that they know very little about."
Earlier, in April 2010, while head of MoCADA, she was quoted in the New York Times's Local with another remark regarding Jews. She said, "I'm trying to figure out new ways to do what I want to do to grow the museum.... You have a Jewish children's museum, but you don't feel that there should be a black-centered museum?"
Cumbo made local headlines again in late March 2015 when she asked why there were "blocs" (possibly "blocks"[54]) of Asians living in two Fort Greene housing projects. Colleague and Manhattan councilwoman Margaret Chin, who is Chinese-American, said "She certainly could've chosen her words a bit more carefully. The fact is that there are many Asian-American families . . . who have applied to live in public housing." Cumbo issued an apology, but then said she only wanted to know if the NYCHA "uses a cultural preference priority component" in picking tenants to which NYCHA chair Shola Olatoye replied that it did not, saying its vacancy rate is less than 1 percent, making such an influx almost impossible.
This quite literally took me 5 minutes to look up on Wikipedia. Just saying.
