“I will tell you, if I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have stood up and denounced them immediately!” Adams told a crowd at Gracie Mansion.
and declared he’d have denounced those comments on stage if he heard them.
“I will tell you, if I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have stood up and denounced them immediately!” Adams said in his Wednesday night remarks. “Because we cannot allow it to happen.” Mayor Adams said he would have denounced the commencement speech right on the stage if he had heard it then and there.He condemned those who remained silent in the face of the grad’s remarks.
“The silence that we are seeing in the midst of the hate we are experiencing, will never be the silence that will be in City Hall as long as I’m the mayor of New York City,” Adams said. “That is not acceptable.”
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