Dr. Martin Luther King Would Approve of Zohran Mamdani - By Dr. Lenore Daniels

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The agitprop is strong in this one, Obi-Wan. 

With nearly impenetrable prose, the author goes on and on about her caricatures, liberally employing well-worn Socialist tropes and bumper sticker slogans in a vain search for a coherent thought. 

Remember, this woman has a PhD. 

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.

Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-elect, New York City

In New York City last week, over a million citizens (The author will use the word "citizens" nine times, which seems rather classist, and it's also offensive to undocumented guests.)

voted for a South Asian Muslim, born in Uganda. (Mamdani got about 50.3% of the total votes, while Andrew Cuomo,  received about 41.6%.

"...Mamdani won a little over 1 million votes (at current count) in a city with a population of around 7 million adults.

"That’s about 14%.

"The total election turnout was a little over 2 million (that will likely increase) making for an election turnout of 28%.

"That’s not even a third of New York City’s population.

"New York City’s election turnout has always been weak. And while the city has a large illegal alien population, it still has 5 million registered voters. That’s a below 40% turnout rate even for registered voters.

"The media is hyping this as the highest election turnout in decades. Only if you don’t pay attention to population growth.")

The racists among MAGA, adherents of the myth enshrining a notion of their superiority, are still in shock. (No one on the Right is racist [Which race is Muslim, by the way?], and no one anywhere is shocked. Everyone expected Mamdani to win in this heavily leftist city, especially against such weak opponents.)

For nine months, the America not MAGA have been called radical, extreme radical, plain-old liberal, radical liberals, evil liberals, socialists and communists. Evil socialists and communists. (No, there is not a dichotomy consisting of MAGA vs. everyone else. There is pro-America and anti-America. Those who want to tear down the system and replace it with Socialism are anti-American. Those who do not are pro-American.

The author is right on one point. They were indeed called radical and evil liberals, socialists, and communists, because they are radical and evil liberals, socialists, and communists. Mamdani calls himself a democratic Socialist. Since Socialism is evil, Mamdani is accurately labeled an evil Socialist.)

Haters of America, all of them! Beware! (Indeed. Anyone who wants to disassemble America and replace it hates America.)

When citizens are wide awake, (i.e., have been fully indoctrinated by Marxist agitprop and are now True Believers.)

the scare tactics of fascists cant (sic) blindside them. (The doctor objects to Mamdani being called a Socialist or a communist, but turns right around and calls people names.)

On October 18, 2025, at 2,600 No Kings protests events, 43 percent of Americans identifying with this movement, rather than MAGA, came out to strongly proclaim no kings in America! Seven million Americans said enough! (Does the author see the irony in freely protesting in a nation supposedly governed by a king, this king when he was previously elected left office at the end of his term, and will do so again?)

For the Chinese domestic worker and the Caribbean caregiver, let the man of retribution and revenge host a Gatsby party for his wealthy friends. (Nonsense sentence.)

There will be consequences. Working class and low-income citizens recognized in the democratic socialist running in the race for mayor of New York City themselves and their concerns and a future for their children. The young 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani stayed on message: the time was right for the economically poor, the working class, for the forgotten, for the invisible to be empowered by their own determination to live in a democracy. (The city has been governed by Leftists for decades. How is it possible these same problems to still exist, which therefore require an even more Left Leftist to fix them?)

Neither a wealthy class nor a member of the donor class, (The Leftist author can only think of people in terms of their class "membership.")

these are the citizens ignored by the politicians from both parties. (If they vote, they are not ignored. Democracy, remember Dr. Daniels?)

These are the citizens Mamdani refused to ignore. (By "ignore" the author means they weren't getting oodles of free stuff.)

And the ignoring of a representative of the majority of the world is tantamount to an incestuous mindset. (Nonsense sentence.)

For to claim the US white and Christian is to live in a prison of one's own making. (Nonsense sentence.)

On the other hand, among the people. Mamdani found critical thinkers (!!!)

asking how is it that politicians from both parties could allow Gazan children to be torn to shreds by US drones? (Both the Left and the Right "allowed" this? What? Unarmed surveillance drones were tearing Gazan children [no adults, apparently] to shreds? How does this happen?

And what does this have to do with critical thinking, or Mamdani? And when will the author discuss the supposed connection to MLK?

This article seems to be becoming more and more irrational.)

How is it that politicians deny SNAP benefits, forcing parents to sacrifice meals and standing in food pantry lines? (It's a bad thing that charities feed people.)

How is it that politicians, on the other hand, empower capitalists, real estate developers to build housing that a majority of poor, working class, senior citizens cant (sic) afford?

In a Christian nation, (!!! Leftists mock the idea we're a Christian nation.)

property and profits are valued more than the lives of human beings. (False choice.)

How is this democracy? (Oh... Democracy values human beings more than property and profits. Yes, of course. Makes perfect sense...)

Those who turned out for Mamdani, shook off the fear of voting for a democratic socialist, (Oh, so non-MAGA people were also scared of him? But the author previously blasted MAGA racists for their hatred, etc., etc...)

and engaged with him about affordability and the right to be. (Affordability of what? The right to be what? Remember, the author holds a doctorate, but cannot write intelligible sentences.)

The citizens and Mamdani witnessed neighbors dragged out of their homes, places of employment, and cars by men in masks. (i.e., criminals of every sort.

We remember the accounts of friendly Socialists and Communists honoring peoples' "right to be:"

Perhaps the soldiers gave them free chocolate bars right before putting a slug in their heads?)

Both Mamdani and his would-be-constituents said no to troops and ICE in neighborhoods where their children are afraid to play on streets. (Because of ICE, or because of the criminals, gangs, and drug runners allowed by previous leftist mayors?)

Where parents fear deportation.

Khong! Seko! Naa! Non! (This is apparently a series of negatives in different languages.)

The residents of New York City shouted back to Mamdani that it matters that neighbors care. (Neighbors care? What exactly do they care about?)

It matters that we turn from cruel policies. (Existing Leftist policies...)

On the day the former VP Dick Chaney died, Mamdani proclaimed a new day in America, one in which the dark side would be replaced with hope. (This getting so over the top. And at what point do we get to read about MLK?)

We chose hope together, hope over tyranny, hope over big money and small ideas, hope over despair. (Empty Leftist buzzwords.)

New York and this politician want to see a city working class people can love and live in again. (They are already living there, weren't they? They were simply mistreated by the previous leftist administrations, right?)

Light of the forgotten will shine, overwhelming the dark side that has continued to resurface as backlash to progressive steps toward freedom. (Makes us want to puke as the author continues to wax nonsensical with vague notions of elevated and noble kumbaya, made possible by the election of a man who does nothing more than promise handouts and play on the emotions of the people of New York.)

This was a moment for me, a Black woman, an American citizen, hoping that this is the moment weve (sic) been waiting for. (Who is "we?" The author is highly educated and has a cushy, high income job. She's not part of the "we." The truth is, the "we" is her fellow Socialists, who have been laying the groundwork for revolution for decades. They have been agitating, they have been fomenting resentment, they have been oppressing the poor and pointing their fingers at capitalism for many years.

They have been pushing for the Proletariat to rise up against the Bourgeois for all this time, trying their hardest to create class resentment. The Proletariat has been less than sympathetic in the past [Socialists just couldn't seem to get them to be discontented enough]. But with Mamdani's election, they see this as their chance to at last pull down the system and install themselves as overlords. 

Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.)

The American people want freedom from the supremacy of a myth of whiteness that always had at its core the violence of a cruel ruler and the brutal submission of the majority. (There's only so much agitprop we can stand. We can say with certainty that the author does not speak for the American people as she claims. She speaks for her fellow Socialists only, and is hoping that the time has finally come for the glorious revolution. If it gets a little bloody, that's ok. As long as they get put in charge of the smoldering ruins.)

For a brief moment, when Mamdani arrived at the podium to deliver his acceptance speech, I thought I saw a glimpse of Dr. Martin L. King, just behind the young man, to his right. (The author finally gets to her topic after over 700 wasted words and just 300 remaining. 

She sees visions. Not of Jesus or even the bright glowing future of a workers paradise, but of MLK bestowing his approval uopn Mamdani,  a man who has done absolutely zero in his life up to this point.)

Dr. King was smiling.

And why not? Something has awakened in the poor and the working class, Blacks, Latino/as, Indigenous, Asian, Muslim. (Gays, don't forget gays.)

What is it if not the spirit of resistance to a would-be-dictator and his cronies. Dr. King challenged America to rid itself of poverty, Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution. He put on his boots and marched on behalf of the garbage worker, fighting for a livable wage. (So the author is just the latest bloodsucker to attach herself to a misremembered and misrepresented MLK raison d'être and legacy.)

And I can hear in Mamdani, Dr. King: the bruised fingers of warehouse workers and the calloused palms from delivery bike handlebars, and the scarred knuckles of kitchen cooks, never were allowed to hold power. (We can feel the bile rising in our throats as the author spouts more sickening Leftist bilge.)

Dr. King asked America to rid itself of racism. End the parade of Black children walking toward a high school or college door, with angry white parents and students spitting on them. End the Jim Crow laws and allowing freedom to dictate where citizens sit on a bus or in a restaurant or in a movie theater. Dr. King fought to have water fountains accessible to all Americans without the dehumanizing Coloreds Only signs. Voting Rights would allow Black representation, thereby diminishing the work of the KKK. (Does the author understand that most all of this was at the force of government? It was the law that forced racism. Certainly there were racists, but most racism was caused by government force.

If government can force blacks to be lynched, then what might it be able to do in the hands of a Muslim Socialist?)

If Dr. King were alive today, he would ask that New Yorkers acknowledged the accomplishment of working against a cruel and fascist regime (Mayor Adams was a fascist?)

of working toward democracy. Freedom. He wouldnt (sic) hesitate, however, to remind us that if we are to [turn toward democracy and freedom] we must honestly admit certain things and get rid of certain myths that have constantly been disseminated all over our nation. Standing before the God of history, (God? What does God have to do with this? A Socialist workers paradise has no room for God.)

we will remember the things weve (sic) done. (Previous mentions of religion were mocking and negative. But now the author appeals to God, not to petition for His help or confess our need for the Savior, but rather, to brag about their accomplishments. 

This woman is sick.)

Following Dr. King in the spirit of resistance, Mamdani and New York City voters took the road less traveled. (No, they took the well-traveled road, the sad and dark road to Socialism, a system and political philosophy that has killed tens of millions.)

May it bring about change and make a difference for all Americans!

Dr. Lenore Daniels: Activist, writer, American Modern Literature, Cultural Theory, PhD.