New Yorkers will vote on a trio of unprecedented ballot questions that some critics say subvert the notion of equality in favor of the Marxist maxim of “equity.”
following the police-custody murder of George Floyd in Minnesota a year earlier.
The new office’s duties would include training and offering additional support to other city departments to help staffers improve services for people of color. The same ballot question would also create a new Commission on Racial Equity to help give the public more say in social-justice issues. John Ketcham, a fellow at the conservative think tank Manhattan Institute, questioned whether the ballot measures’ provisions would hold up in court, if challenged, because each contains text stipulating they’re “not intended to create a direct or indirect right of action to enforce” their “terms.”
Councilman Robert Holden, a centrist Democrat from Queens, said the city would be better suited focusing more attention of fixing major problems it faces – such as subway crime and homelessness – rather than pushing “proposals that have no meaningful impact on the prosperity of this city.”