{"id":319835,"date":"2021-03-26T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=319835"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:15:33","slug":"bill-de-blasio-establishes-racial-justice-commission-stocked-with-aides-and-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-de-blasio-establishes-racial-justice-commission-stocked-with-aides-and-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill De Blasio Establishes \u2018Racial Justice\u2019 Commission Stocked With Aides And Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-de-blasio-establishes-racial-justice-commission-stocked-with-aides-and-allies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=319835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3800.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this week announced a new racial justice commission which will make policy recommendations to \u201cdismantle structural racism for all New Yorkers,\u201d but not until he is a lame duck mayor after the city\u2019s November mayoral election.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-member commission comprised of policy experts, nonprofit leaders, activists, and academics will have the \u201cpower to put forth permanent, transformative ideas for our government and our city,\u201d the mayor said at a Tuesday press conference announcing the initiative, calling it \u201cthe first commission of its kind\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The commission will perform its stated mission by proposing policies and recommending changes to the City Charter, which acts as the city\u2019s constitution. Among the specific policy recommendations which have been floated are a jobs guarantee for all New Yorkers, reparation payments for black New Yorkers, and a public apology from the city for past actions now deemed racist. In addition to proposing the cancellation of student debt, at least one member of the commission has also supported \u201cbaby bonds,\u201d which are government-funded savings accounts for all children.<\/p>\n<p>The budget of the commission is not clear.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have wondered aloud why de Blasio chose to wait until his eighth and final year in office to create the commission, which he has touted many times over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor gave the commission a deadline of this December to produce a report and policy recommendations, with some proposals potentially being presented for approval by New Yorkers as ballot measures next year, when de Blasio\u2019s successor will be in office.<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s work bleeding into the next administration could potentially hamper the city\u2019s next mayor, depending on whether they oppose the policy proposals the commission puts forth.<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Gotbaum, executive director of the good-government group, Citizens Union, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/23\/de-blasio-announces-new-racial-justice-commission\/\">called<\/a> the timing of the mayor\u2019s decision to announce the racial justice commission \u201cvery bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, de Blasio has filled the commission with current members of his administration, as well as others who he\u2019s worked closely with.<\/p>\n<p>Commission member Phillip Thompson was appointed by de Blasio in 2018 as deputy mayor&nbsp;for strategic policy initiatives.&nbsp;Thompson and de Blasio\u2019s relationship stretches back decades \u2014 the two previously worked together in former New York City Mayor David Dinkins\u2019s administration, Thompson as deputy general manager for operations and development.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio also tapped the city\u2019s Department of Probation commissioner, Ana Berm\u00fadez, whom he appointed to her post in 2014, to serve on the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Chairing the racial justice commission is Jennifer Jones Austin, whom de Blasio appointed as chair of Board of Correction in March of last year. The commission\u2019s vice chair will be Henry Garrido, who heads District Council 37, New York City\u2019s largest government employees union with 125,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>The formation of the new commission comes after confusion last year following de Blasio\u2019s announcement of a similar commission, dubbed the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission in honor of Juneteenth. That commission never appeared.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio\u2019s wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, who is black, also issued a statement hailing the commission, saying that \u201cracism has infected every facet of our lives in New York City for generations\u201d and that in order for the city to heal, the commission must \u201cpull the bandages off the ugly truths, using the full powers of government to make right the deeply rooted policies of inequity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly then will we be able to move forward together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this week announced a new racial justice commission which will make policy recommendations to \u201cdismantle structural racism for all New Yorkers,\u201d but not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311215,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3800.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Bill De Blasio Establishes \u2018Racial Justice\u2019 Commission Stocked With Aides And Allies","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3800.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Bill De Blasio Establishes \u2018Racial Justice\u2019 Commission Stocked With Aides And Allies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}