NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams hosted reception celebrating African heritage.
Addressing participants of reception, Mayor Adams said that we want to do great things with Africa.
“We want to reintroduce our young people to their aunties and uncles and cousins from the continent. We want to do trade. We’re going to do a culture exchange. We want to re-energize ourselves,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that good people walk in the room when others walk out. “Hard times is like a filtering system. It moves all that dead weight from around you and it allows the true spirit to emerge among you,” he said.
He recalled that when he was 13 points behind in the poll for mayor, he went to see some and the chieftains and some of our leaders and they did that little magic and we went from being behind to being in front.
“So right now I want you to do your little magic as we deal with all the issues going on, and we’re going to continue to move this city forward. We lived up to what we promised. We lived up to making this city an equitable and fairer city for everyone, no matter where you come from, and we’re going to continue to do that,” he added.
