'Tax the White Meat': Racist comments by Zohran Mamdani’s Chief Equity Officer resurface after appointment

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently appointed, Afua Atta-Mensah as the new chief equity officer, a post that is designed to promote inclusion. As per the 34-year-old mayor, there is no one he trusts more to "advance racial equity across our work in City Hall."

However, the new Mamdani official has a past that includes making racist comments against white liberal women, one that was erased just before her appointment to the post. Atta-Mensah deleted her X account with sizzling racist posts, which have now been unearthed by the New York Young Republicans Club and revealed by The Post.

Afua Atta-Mensah's racist past

In her now deleted posts, Atta-Mensah liberally added phrases like "comrade" and phrases including “there’s NO moderate way to black liberation.” She retweeted and replied to at least three posts complaining about liberal white women.

Once, she responded to a post where a social media user wrote, “we don’t talk about white liberal racism enough,” replying, “Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations”

She also reposted a part of the post asking, "Who's not police but FEELS like police to you?" “white women at nonprofit organisations,” replied Atta-Mensah to the September 2024 post.

Another post compared white women to Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the cops on a black birdwatcher in 2020 and was dubbed "Central Park Karen." “A lot of y’all are Amy Coopers to the Black women in your non-profits every day,” the tweet read, to which the equity chief responded with, “THIS IS A WHOLE WORD!!!!”

She also replied to a 2021 post sharing how the show 'Succession' made them want to “tax these people to the white meat.” To which she agreed with a hand-clap emoji.

On the professional front, she has previously held roles including Chief of Programs at Community Change, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, and Director of Litigation and Policy at the Urban Justice Center. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Africana Studies from Trinity College-Hartford and completed her Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.

Mamdani administration's social media backstep

Recently, Mamdani's new tenant advocate, Cea Weaver also faced backlash over her X posts calling to “seize private property” and branding homeownership “a weapon of white supremacy.”

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership, is a weapon of white supremacy,” read another one of her tweets.

In a statement to the outlet, Mamdani's office said that it hadn't directed appointees to delete their social media.