Mayor Adams’ excuse-making now includes a full-blown “Jesus complex.”
At a Brownsville town hall last week, now posted on City Hall’s YouTube channel, he blamed his political woes on race and invoked Matthew 21:12, where Jesus overturns the tables of money lenders and merchants in the temple: “I went to City Hall to turn the table over.”
Well, not quite, sir: Last year you gave city workers hefty raises without gaining any productivity concessions.
Nor have you overturned any major policies of the last mayor.
And no one’s “hating” you because of your race.
Heck, not a single African-American on the City Council voted to sustain your vetoes last week.
And the press, and New Yorkers generally, were as tough if not tougher on Mayor Bill de Blasio, a white man.
It has nothing to do with your “chocolate” cabinet.
New Yorkers are mad that you invited the migrant crisis upon us and haven’t outright called on President Biden — another white man — to secure and close the southern border.
They’re upset over the public-safety threat posed by the tens of thousands of unvetted border-crossers who’ve descended on the Big Apple, distressed by moped-riding migrant robbery gangs preying on the innocent and the caught-on-video migrant thugs who assaulted two cops in Times Square.
Like many Gothamites of all races, rapper 50 Cent was rightly dismayed over the plan to hand unrestricted $1,000 debit cards to asylum seekers.
Don’t forget about the throngs of lawless pro-Hamas protesters allowed to tie up traffic, bridges and airports despite police warnings.
In the schools, students are stabbed in high school stairwells and Jewish faculty forced into hiding from rioting pro-Palestinian students.
We understand the mayor’s frustrations with having to deal with a hostile Albany and City Council — but, as The Post’s Michael Benjamin noted Saturday, “The levers of political and governmental power are in the hands of nonwhite leaders who look like Mayor Adams.”
Adams needs to drop the martyr complex and focus on actually “getting stuff done” that New Yorkers care about.
Otherwise, he risks being another one-term mayor.
And that ignominy will be his cross to bear — alone.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
