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Jacqueline Munis

Mamdani advisor under fire for resurfaced ‘white supremacy’ tweets but landlords are really upset about hearings ‘to shame and embarrass them’

Zohran Mamdani (Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new tenant advisor is backtracking after her tweets calling private property a “weapon of white supremacy” resurfaced online.  

In an August 2019 post on X, then known as Twitter, Cea Weaver wrote “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy,” Weaver wrote. A screenshot of the post was shared by the conservative account Libs of Tiktok. 

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