‘Yield Positions of Power to Those Otherwise Marginalized’: Mamdani’s Cash-Strapped Parks Department Trains Leaders on ‘Becoming Anti-Racist’
The training, which recommends books from Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, encourages supervisors to identify ‘subtle’ slights workers experience ‘due to their group identity’ Zohran Mamdani (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) The New York City Parks Department, facing a $33 million budget cut and chronic understaffing problems, instructs its supervisors to be “antiracist” activists who police “microaggressions”