NYC DSA Is So Afraid of Being Too White It’s Mulling an ‘Anti-Oppression’ Task Force to Recruit Minorities

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Members of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America think their roster is too white — and are considering an “anti-oppression” task force to recruit minorities and actual working-class New Yorkers.

The New York City chapter of the uber-liberal group will consider a resolution stuffed with politically correct messaging at its convention on Saturday that would create a “Task Force to Promote Equitable Organizing Culture” and force its leaders to get diversity training.

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The resolution, if approved, would also require extensive training for DSA leadership. A recent internal survey found 60% of the city DSA’s members identified as white while the Big Apple is 34% white, The Post previously reported. The city chapter claims more than 15,000 members.

“The chapter will create an Anti-Oppression Task Force supported by the Membership Committee, which will be responsible for supporting leadership and membership to dismantle oppressive systems and combat oppressive practices in the chapter,” the resolution said.

“It is incumbent on NYC-DSA’s leadership to proactively learn about oppressive systems and behaviors, how to dismantle and combat them within the organization, and how to construct an equitable culture that advances our goals of organizing the multiracial, multigendered working class; as well as supporting the full membership to learn about these topics and enact these goals.”

The lack of diversity in the DSA’s ranks and leadership has been a sore spot for the lefty organization despite its tremendous political successes in recent years — even as some of its marquee candidates have been from various races and minority ethnic and backgrounds.

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is likely to be the nation’s first black Speaker of the House of Representatives when Democrats take control of Congress next year, has sparred with DSA reps in his Brooklyn district.

DSA members at a primary victory party for Rep.-elect Valdez threatened Jeffries with a future primary by chanting, “You’re next!”

“It was very interesting to me, as observed by others that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd,” Jeffries told CNN of the taunts.

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Civil rights leader and housing activist Rev. Kevin McCall, who earlier had called for Gordillo to resign, said a task force would be a welcome first step but warned the DSA that it needs to open up the process to black and Hispanic communities in the five boroughs.

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