The average New Yorker has no time to read New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 375-page report, “New York City Preliminary Racial Equity.” As a sociologist who has written extensively on racial issues, and as someone who has worked with racial and ethnic minorities for many years, reading this report was right up my alley.

What I uncovered was disturbing: Mamdani and his administration have a very warped, indeed dangerous, vision of race in America. The document is an extreme left-wing assessment of American history.

The report informs the reader that all of those immigrants who came to New York to seek a better life were wrong to do so. “New York’s history has been one of colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression.” Why the immigrants kept on coming it never explains.

“The land New York City stands on today once belonged to the Lenape people, who were forcibly displaced through settler colonialism.” In fact, the land never “belonged” to the Lenape anymore than it “belongs” to those who live in New York today. The Lenape migrated to New York from the west coast, and their ancestors migrated to North America from Asia. The Indians crossed through Beringia, a land bridge between Asia and America that existed during the ice ages.

The report mentions that Wall Street was home to the slave trade. What it doesn’t mention is the........

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