Via NY Times:
Delivering his most explicit and candid appraisal yet, David N. Dinkins says in a forthcoming memoir that he barely won the New York City mayoral election in 1989 and lost four years later by a small margin for one reason: because he is black.
“I think it was just racism, pure and simple,” Mr. Dinkins writes.
In the memoir, “A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic,” which is to be published in September by PublicAffairs, Mr. Dinkins tiptoes out of his courtly public persona to berate Rudolph W. Giuliani, who defeated him in 1993, and to take a swipe at former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
He even admits some missteps, including a failure to contain race riots in Crown Heights, for which he largely blamed his police commissioner, and the prolonged boycott by blacks of a Korean-owned grocery in Brooklyn. [...]
Not surprisingly, Mr. Dinkins aims his most acrid salvos at Mr. Giuliani, describing him as “a cold, unkind person” who “apparently has some difficulty apologizing for anything” and practiced “the politics of boundless ambition without the guidance of a set of core beliefs or the humility and restraint of experience.”
He accuses Giuliani operatives of spying on his campaign and maintains that the comedian Jackie Mason, in describing Mr. Dinkins as a “fancy schvartze,” was “essentially calling me a nigger.” Mr. Mason, who supported Mr. Giuliani in his race against Mr. Dinkins, declined to comment. Mr. Dinkins said Mr. Giuliani’s underlying divisive message was: “The city is in terrible financial straits. Do you really want a black man presiding over it in this time of trouble?”
"I got a flat tire today, I'm pretty sure it was the result of racism. Race, race, race, I'm sick of f**king hearing it. But I think I'm going to feel much sicker in the weeks ahead. So now Dunkin Dinkins is coming out of his racist closet and getting into the act. Great! Now they are all going to crawl out of their gutters and start bitching. So you think that it was racisim that prevented you from getting re-elected Dunkin? Bull shit, you lost because you had the city in chaos, high crime, high taxes, lots of debt and corruption. But the tennis courts were safe, right Dunkin? No you POS. You lost because you were a shity mayor. As for racism your showing where the racism in
