NY City Council Member Jumaane Williams has just endorsed Bernie Sanders for President of the United States at the campaign’s biggest rally to date. Speaking before a diverse crowd of 28,000 in Prospect Park, less than 48 hours before NY polls open, Williams, whose district includes Canarsie, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, and Midwood in Brooklyn, began by mocking a now-infamous New York Daily News article for describing Bernie as being “at war with reality”:
I thought to myself, ‘you’re goddamn right.’ Because too many people’s reality in this borough, and in this city and in this nation needs to be at war with,” he said. “Too many people’s reality is struggle. And maybe if you’re not at war with reality, you’re not focused enough.”
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Williams referred to Sanders campaign as a "political revolutionary moonshot”, not unlike every single one of the prior sea change events in our nation’s political history:
From an eight-hour workday, to no child labor, from LGBT rights, to women’s suffrage, from the Civil Rights movement, to freeing the slaves, were all revolutionary moonshots. In fact, the birth of this nation was a revolutionary moonshot. The people who say it cannot be done, please move out of the way of the people who are doing,” he said. “I’m proud today to endorse the next president of the United States of America, Senator Bernie Sanders, who will bring the revolutionary moonshot, baby!
Williams is very popular and very outspoken about affordable housing and other anti-poverty issues. He was the sponsor of NYC’s “Fair Chance Act”, or ban the box legislation, which Mayor DeBlasio signed into law last June. His district is diverse and 76% of his constituents identify as Black or African American, many of whom were likely to have attended the nearby rally today to hear what Bernie was about.