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"We've learned how to elect people. What we have not learned is how to lift ourselves out of poverty," says J. Phillip Thompson, the city's deputy mayor during the Dinkins administration, who is Black himself. "And that's the challenge for Eric.” (2/2) https://t.co/Q5oG3ZdyZc — PolitiTweet.org

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Unlike the watershed moment with the 1989 election of David Dinkins, some Black voters view Eric Adams, the son of a single mother who worked as a house cleaner, as a candidate colored less by racial identity than class. (1/2) https://t.co/tTgEpEQv2N — PolitiTweet.org