Speaking in Central Park, Adams likened the modern uprooting of people of color from neighborhoods in the United States – including the five neighborhoods – to slavery. “When I was in Ghana last year, [I] “They saw families displaced, disbanded and transported to America through slavery in the hulls of ships, living in dungeons, spending months and months living in their human waste, removing their babies, and they saw them scattered and displaced,” he said. “This is no different here,” Adams told the crowd at the Central Park Conservancy Juneteenth celebration. “We can not look in the mirror and say we should have done better when we are here right now,” he said. “Let’s do better now. “Let’s recognize the presence of people to be part of the community they built.” The mayor pointed to the Seneca Village, which was founded in 1825 in the western part of what is now Central Park and became home to more than 200 free blacks – who were evicted about 30 years later to make way for Manhattan’s iconic green space. “Imagine being displaced again and again and again,” Adams said. “When this village was demolished to build this park, we displaced the energy of the village of Seneca. He never returned. Speaking in Central Park, Adams likened the modern uprooting of people of color from neighborhoods in the United States – including five municipalities – to slavery. Michael Noble Jr. for the Washington Post via Getty Images “Let us not mention the village of Seneca when we create another destruction of a village of Seneca,” he said. “We have to think about it as we walk here as we watch this beautiful place [Frederick] Olmsted built, as we look at how wonderful this Central Park in downtown Manhattan is, we displaced some families here. “We ruined lives,” said the mayor. “There were families here long before Starbucks. “They were here and they laid the foundations.” Black communities in the area have been forced to relocate and rebuild in other neighborhoods, such as Haarlem, downtown Brooklyn and Bedford Stevesand, Adams said, adding: “And now what? We are displacing them again. “ New York City must “do better” to prevent the eviction of black people from their neighborhoods, Mayor Eric Adams said during a speech on the fourth of June.Twitter/@NYCMayor “No one wanted this land. This land was not attractive. “Nobody wanted Manhattan,” Adams added, referring to less prosperous decades in New York City history. “These churches have left here to go and be built in other places, such as Haarlem, in downtown Brooklyn. Adams, the second black mayor of New York, noted that black Americans in recent decades have been forced to flee the neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta – communities they regretted being treated with “disaster.” ». “We start again and again and wonder why we see some of the crises we face in black in brown communities,” he said. “Every time they managed to have a base, they were displaced again. “Once you started building something, it fell apart.” Adams – who announced in April that the Juneteenth would be a paid holiday for city officials – encouraged the 40 or so attendees not only to reflect on the past but also to make sure it would not happen again. “Let us educate our children so that they know that there were people who were here who built this city we call New York,” he said. June, one of America’s oldest holidays, marks the official end of slavery in the United States in 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the last remaining Confederates that they had lost the Civil War. so all the slaves needed to be freed. In June 2021, the Juneteenth became the 12th federal holiday. Adams kicked off the weekend with a visit to a synagogue in the Hamptons. Earlier on Sunday, the mayor’s office announced that City Hall and several other buildings would be lit on Sunday and Monday night in red, black and green – the color of the Pan-African flag – to pay tribute to the holidays. “This June, we proudly say the history of blacks is American history,” Adams said in a press release. “Today is a time to remember and celebrate the countless contributions of Black Americans to our country, while acknowledging the many sacrifices and hardships our community has faced. “I hope all New Yorkers will join me in recognizing the freedom that Black Americans have been deprived of for so long.” The municipal buildings to be illuminated in red, black and green are the Bronx Borough Hall, the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building, the Queens Borough Hall, the Staten Island Borough Hall and the DSNY Salt Shed Complex. In addition, the colors will appear on a number of Big Apple landmarks, including Madison Square Garden. 30 Rockefeller Plaza; The Empire State Building? the Javits Center; One World Observatory and the National Museum of 9/11.
