David Dinkins, NYC’s first black mayor immortalized on Seinfeld, dead at 93

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In case you missed it the first time this Thread was started...
Good Fucking Riddance to one of the most incompetent pieces of shit that ever became a politician.
He was so bad that he caused a Republican to win an election.

In case you missed it the first time, you are a racist POS. You didn't even live in NYC ass clown.

 

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from the new york times:

“NEW YORK - Politicians and political hopefuls gathered at the National Action Network office in Harlem Saturday to remember the life and legacy of David Dinkins, who died Tuesday night at the age of 93.

“We are going to make certain that nobody is going to be able to say that we didn’t show our love and our affection,” said former congressman Charles Rangel. Rangel was a member of the Harlem political powerhouse known as the “Gang of Four” with Dinkins. The other members included former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, and former state senator Basil Paterson, father of former governor David Paterson.

“They were four men, four gladiators, four Harlem horsemen who said ‘No, you all are not going to keep denying us,’” explained Reverend Al Sharpton.

Together, the four men ascended the political ladder, Dinkins breaking a barrier when he became the first black mayor of New York City in 1990.

“I began to watch how he was managing an incredibly divided city, the indignities, the underestimation, sometimes the disrespect,” said state Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins.

But some spoke not only to remember a legacy of public service, but they said also to protect a legacy under attack.

“David Dinkins as a mayor is not being represented correctly,” said former governor Paterson.

He and Congressman Adriano Espaillat said Dinkins must be remembered as the leader who inherited a city plagued by crime and divided by race. It was Dinkins, they say, who governed through it and unified.

“Crime is going up, he got the monies for community policing, the police officers would walk around the neighborhood and they would get to know the young people and they would get to know the small businesses and there will be a relationship so none of the stuff that’s going on right now could happen,” Espaillat said..”