Mamdani’s Parks Department Reportedly Pushing Racism Training as Parks Deteriorate, Face $33 Million Budget Cut

New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Parks Department is pushing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) courses despite facing understaffing and a $33 million budget cut, according to a Thursday report.

{snip}

One guide the DEI office is reportedly offering is titled “What Every Supervisor/Manager Should Know About Race and Racism in the Workplace.”

This guide offers book and documentary recommendations like Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project, Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” and Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, the outlet reported.

One slide in the presentation offers a chart designed to help you “discern where you are on your journey” to becoming an anti-racist, according to a graphic obtained by the outlet.

Senior leaders would be expected to move from the “Fear Zone” — which consists of acknowledgments like “I deny racism is a problem” — to the “Growth Zone,” which demands individuals “yield positions of power to those otherwise marginalized,” according to the Washington Free Beacon.

{snip}

Director of the parks department’s DEI office, Iyana Titus, allegedly received a $200,000 salary in 2024, according to the Washington Free Beacon, citing public records.

{snip}