Mamdani Backs Housing Appointee As Past Social-Media Posts Resurface |
In one of his first official acts as mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced that he was reviving the Office to Protect Tenants and appointed Cea Weaver, a prominent tenants-rights advocate and member of his transition team as its new director.
But Weaver has come under fire in recent days after years-old social-media posts resurfaced, including a tweet in which the longtime tenants organizer called homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy.”
On Sunday, the New York Post reported on several tweets from Weaver’s now-defunct X account, highlighting a 2018 post that read, “Seize private property!” In another deleted tweet from 2019, Weaver wrote, “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.” UnHerd has additionally reported on similar posts Weaver published on Facebook, including one from 2017: “If you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize private property........