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The former mayor Eric Adams said that you were,

quote, "out of your effing mind." That was in

response to a resurfaced tweet from way back

when of something you'd said on Twitter about

home ownership being a tool of white supremacy.

I wanted to give you a chance to respond. You're

not... you're not out of your mind, right?

I... I don't think I'm out of my mind. Um, you

know, I think that some of... some of those

things are... are certainly not how I would...

how I would say things today and are... and

are regretful. Um, but, you know, I do think

my sort of decades of experience fighting for

more affordable housing sort of stands on its

own. I'm... I'm proud to be in this role fighting

for stronger tenants' rights. And I... and I

think that for many years, people have been

locked out of the property market that has produced

a lot of systemic and racial inequalities in

our system. And, um, I want to make sure that

everybody has a safe and affordable place to

live whether they rent or own, and that is something

that I'm laser-focused on in this new role.