Flashback - Mamdani Endorsed NY State Assembly Candidate: 9-11 Was America’s Fault Because of Our ‘System of Capitalism, Racism, White Supremacy and Islamophobia’

EXCERPT:

KAWAS: "And finding that, like, you know, the system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy, etc., and Islamophobia have all been used, you know, to colonize lands, right, to take resources from other people, and so this is like a long trajectory and we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right, with 9/11. And so a lot of times people are asking us to respond about, you know, attack, right, when you look back, like, historically, right, you know, a lot of us come from lands that were colonized, lands where wars are being waged, right, and lot of times because of U.S. policy or the policies in Europe. And so I find that we can connect over that, but then also that the idea that we have to apologize for, like, a terror attack that, like, couple people did, and then there is no apologies or reparations for genocides and for slavery, etc., is something that I kind of find, like, reprehensible."