The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani is the Real Racist Polluting This Country

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

Even though Americans didn’t ask for it, Mamdani thought America would appreciate a July 4th message from him on why the country is racist and unfair. (Spoiler, you’re the problem.)   In reality, the racist and privileged individual is Mamdani himself. He has never been the victim. He comes from wealthy parents, immigrates to America, and then criticizes the host country that took him in.   “That’s about as racist as you can get,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”  👉Alliance Defending Freedom - Visit JoinADF.com/HANSON or text HANSON to 83848 to give today. HTTPS://WWW.JOINADF.COM/HANSON.COM  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. On July 3rd, the mayor of New York, Zoran Mondami, and I don't quite know why the mayor seems to think he speaks for the entire nation, but he wanted to give a Fourth of July speech to the nation at large. It wasn't a speech, it was an indictment. And what I could condense his speech, it was essentially that America was ruled by white racist, and they had been very unfair in the past to everyone, but themselves, including people, as he said, quote-unquote, the rest of us. He included himself in the group of people supposedly who had calloused hands, who did the work, but they were not paid fairly or they got the raw end of the deal in a racist and unfair America.

He also said it was based, it being privileged was based on the right shade of skin and the right accent. And again, he included himself as if he had been a victim. There's two things about Mondami. Everybody should remember. One, he's very, very wealthy and he's very, very privileged. Two, he's very racist. And let me explain. Mondami comes from the 1% expatriate,

what he would call in Marxist terms, settler colonialists that went to Uganda to get rich. And today, they only constitute about 60 or 70,000 people in a multi-million-person country, but they control 60% of the GDP. So he came from Uganda, and he came to the United States. His father is an endowed professor at Columbia University, very richly paid. His mother is a subsidized, very successful, though, filmmaker. Both of them have expressed, like their son, Mondami, anti-American sentiments, even though they came as immigrants asking the host to welcome them, which we did.

She's also a beneficiary of millions of dollars from illiberal Guttar who pays a lot of her tabs. As far as race goes, there has been no one who is more racially insensitive than Zoran Mondami. Let me explain. He said that he wanted to go into white, white, Wider neighborhoods and tax them wider, richer neighborhoods. If he really wants to go in and tax richer neighborhoods, I don't know what he means by tax, then why did he have to say white? If he thinks that rich people are all white people, the largest poverty group of the United States are white,

the richest ethnic group is Zoran Mondami's Indian Americans. They have the highest per capita and highest per family income. He could have said then, if he was not a racist, we're just going to go in and look at richer neighborhoods. Or if he wanted to talk about rich and race simultaneously, and he wanted to be honest, he said, we're going to go in and look at richer and more Indian American groups like my own, who were the richest in the United States. Of course, he wouldn't do that. He's also said that APEC, a Jewish advocacy group, are monsters. He doesn't say that care or any Muslim group or any Muslim group or any.

other group. Only Jews are monstrous. He had a housing secretary, a person who's in charge or would be in charge of all public housing in New York, thousands of apartments. She said housing is a weapon of white supremacy. I don't know what that means. Apparently she thinks too many white people have saved, put down a down payment, make their mortgage payments regularly and in full, and therefore they exercise white supremacy. I don't know what she means about that. She's also said that she doesn't want to see any more whites in office platforms. In other words, she wants to adjudicate who is running New York by the color of their skin. Remember, this comes from a man who lectured us about the shades of purple people's skin. He had a appointment secretary. It has a long name, but I'll just

shortened it to Carolyn De Costa. She had said on other occasions that whites must be defeated. Imagine if any other mayor said blacks must be defeated or Asians must be defeated or Hispanics must defeat it. That's about as racist as you can get. This is Mondami's appointment secretary. She also termed Jews as money hungry. And then there's Mondami's wife. I wouldn't singular her out, except that she's playing a very prominent political role in his administration. After October 7th massacre, she went on social media and said she liked over 70 different posts that celebrated the slaughter of 1,200 Jews. She offered illustrations for a book, a very anti-Semitic, hateful book written by an author who had termed Jews ruthless gulf.

ghouls and soulless vampires. So what does all this mean? It means it left us when they lecture America, they're usually projecting their own sins as Mondami is doing. He's talking about America being racist when he has expressed more racist sentiment in his first six months in office than any mayor has in the history of New York. And when they talk about people being exploited by a capitalist unfair system, they're usually what? Racist and wealthy. Wealthy. The Mondamis are multi-millionaires. They were multi-millionaires in Uganda, and when they came here, they got even richer. So when we look at these new democratic socialists and they start to lecture us on race, or they lecture us on wealth, go back and look at their past, and what will we find that they're

racist themselves and they're quite wealthy? Thank you very much. It's Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.