De Blasio appoints wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force

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 De Blasio appoints wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force

By Carl Campanile, Kevin Sheehan and Aaron Feis

April 26, 2020 | 11:43am | Updated

Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t letting the controversy surrounding his wife’s embattled billion-dollar mental health initiative stop him from appointing her to head a new coronavirus recovery task force.

Citing her work with the ThriveNYC initiative, de Blasio revealed Sunday that first lady Chirlane McCray, a rumored contender for Brooklyn borough president, would co-chair a Task Force on Racial Inclusion and Equity as the city plans its eventual reopening.

“The economic and racial disparities that have been made so clear by this crisis, we knew about them before,” said de Blasio, who was elected six years ago on a pledge to make the city more equitable and eliminate its “tale of two cities.” “A powerful, painful exclamation point has been put on them by this crisis.”

New York’s poorest ZIP codes have been hardest hit by the pandemic, city data show, and minorities — many among the city’s essential workers — have died at disproportionately higher rates.

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What's a little nepotism among New Yorkers?

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Since she won't actually have anything to do, maybe she could look into getting the subways clean:

NYC subway operator confronted by ‘defecating’ straphanger on 2 train
By Doree Lewak and David Meyer
April 27, 2020 | 6:50pm

The veteran subway operator says she witnessed a homeless man openly “defecating” on a 2 train Monday — a sign the homeless have “taken over” the subway system during the coronavirus pandemic.

Angelina Malave, 46, who missed a month of work after catching the virus, said the sight of the man — kicked back on a subway bench with his legs raised in the air over his head so his full rear-end is in view — was “one of the worst things I’ve seen in my 18 years as a train operator.”

“He was definitely defecating. I was shaken and upset,” she said. ...

The 5-foot train operator said she’s too scared to confront homeless offenders on the rails. At 3 a.m., when she starts her shift, all 10 train cars are occupied by vagrants, she said.

Having returned to work just last week after recovering from the virus, the MTA vet admitted she fears exposure to the homeless population setting up camp on her train. ...

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Related: De Blasio denies subway homelessness ‘out of control’ amid coronavirus

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Titania McGrath @TitaniaMcGrath
All this time we’ve been wasting looking for a "vaccine", it turns out we should have been campaigning against the coronavirus for its discriminatory and racist infection practices.

#CoronavirusIsRacist #CancelCOVID19 #NotMyVirus