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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference, Thursday, May 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill, in Washington.
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The Issue: Black athletes encouraged by the NAACP to boycott universities in redistricting southern states.
How absolutely maniacal to encourage black athletes to avoid bettering themselves at southern universities — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, you have carried your racist rants too far (“The NAACP vs. Black Athletes,” Editorial, May 21).
Your fear tactics are disgusting and are nothing but a power play for your own job. Every young person has the right to pursue their future however they deem necessary no matter their race or religion.
Judy Chernett
Delray Beach, Fla.
No serious student — athlete or not — nor their parents, will “boycott” any college that prizes a student for their academic prowess or athletic ability on the sole ground that the state in which the college sits voted to “weaken” blacks’ voting rights.
We blacks win some and we lose some. It would be silly to urge our youth to “boycott” scholarships and higher education opportunities offered to them in protest of how voters in southern states voted on a single electoral issue.
Would we suggest that minority justices on the Supreme Court boycott their colleagues for voting against “minority” rights or on any pivotal civil rights matter? No way.
Michael Meyers
Manhattan
When your policies injure the very people you’ve pledged to help, you’ve either misread the room or likely bent a knee for a “higher” political goal.
The NAACP knows the issues, but is riven with anti-conservative bias. It would rather hurt the already disadvantaged than do the right thing. Progressive politics loses again.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
By dissuading black athletes from enrolling in southern institutions, the Democrats are once again impeding their access to education.
It seems that Dems are driven by a fear of losing the black vote, prompting them to employ tactics that perpetuate misinformation and ignorance.
Storm Destro
Bayonne, NJ
Rep. Jeffries is telling black athletes not to take millions of dollars in athletic scholarships from schools in red states due to gerrymandering.
How does a moron like this have a leadership role in a major political party?
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
The Issue: Jeff Bezos’ critiques of Mayor Mamdani’s use of city funds on education.
Mayor Mamdani is getting the public spanking he deserves from the likes of Jamie Dimon and Jeff Bezos (“Bezos: Mayor’s a biz bo-zo,” May 21).
New York City is the financial epicenter of the world. And the mayor, who is a socialistic ideologue, thinks he can topple capitalism and make it a dirty word. And the offshoot message to others is to begrudge the success of individuals.
If Mamdani thinks he can take the city down a socialistic rabbit hole, he has another thing coming.
Phil Serpico
Queens
Kudos to Jeff Bezos for calling out the failings of New York City’s Department of Education.
The public school system in New York has been failing miserably for years and the solution of throwing more money at the problem has not worked.
Hopefully, Bezos’ comments serve as a wake-up call for the Mamdani administration, but I’m not holding my breath.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
The city’s decline can be found in the continuous out-migration of people from the city. Last year saw 114,000 people leaving for other US cities.
Mamdani’s destructive policies on public safety, crime control and city services, and divisive rhetoric, will shoot those numbers even higher, as he has demonstrated his only goals are to tax and destroy, and push socialism.
Susan Cienfuegos
New Rochelle
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