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Michael Goodwin: Mamdani and his DSA cronies are fueling a racial rift within the already fractured Dem party

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The explosive charge by a black politician that Mayor Mamdani and his socialist army are guilty of “white supremacy” reveals another front in the war for New York launched by the radical left.

“White supremacy comes in all forms,” Queens Borough President Donovan Richards posted on social media.

He also referenced a well-known quote from the late Malcolm X about “dangerous white liberals.”

At heart, the issue boils down to political power, who has it and competing visions for how it should be used.

A major flashpoint is that Richards is a career pol who has consistently advocated for expanded black and Latino ownership of private homes as a means of creating intergenerational wealth.

That’s totally at odds with the views of Mamdani’s agenda, and especially his top housing aide, Cea Weaver, who has made comments about housing that are ­beyond bizarre.

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She once celebrated the government’s “sacred right to seize private property,” called homeownership “racist” and said it is “a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”

In one of his many warnings about the excesses of the Mamdani machine that drove him from City Hall, former Mayor Eric Adams weighed in on the topic.

He correctly noted on X that “Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle. You have to be completely out of your f***ing mind to call that ‘white supremacy.’ ”

The spark for Richards’ latest comments is a growing........

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