Evolution Of The Black Political Class And Where Eric Adams Fits

Eric Adams' rise to mayor of New York City is explained by Pascal Robert, who walks us through the last fifty-year progression of the Black political class; from the mayors of the early Civil Rights era that supported redistributive policy despite their neoliberal alignment, through the urban regimes of the ’80s that began to fully embrace the neoliberal policies, and into the ‘90s’ complete marketization and embrace of DLC politics.

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Talking about Eric Adams, as you saw in the video that I made with Ben Dixon. I like to put him in the context of the evolution of the black political class in the last fifty years. Real quick, I’m gonna try to make it as quick as possible. If I can do 200 years of Ancient history, I can do this. In the last fifty-plus years, we’ve had the evolution of the post-civil rights black political class. They’ve gone through four iterations of change. The first iteration of the black political class, what is the black political class, these are the elected officials as well as the ideological superstructure around the civil rights organizations—the churches, the member organizations that create the political options that exist in black communities, that channel black voters into supporting traditional the Democrat party.