Fight the Power: Caban for Queens DA

In 1989 NYC's racial politics came to the forefront. Though it was 30 years ago, 1989 seems to haunt our present. 

In 1989 we had Central Park Jogger case that led to the wrongful conviction of the Central Park 5. 

In 1989 Spike Lee's great movie Do the Right Thing premiered -- a movie that brutally looked at the racial realities of life in NYC.

And in 1989 Rudy Giuliani first ran for mayor on a platform of racial resentment. He came close to winning in 1989 and finally did in 1993. As this article points out, Rudy as mayor was a forerunner to Trump as president -- white backlash politics, promoting the idea that we were living in some kind of crime-ridden hell hole, blaming the previous black guy who held their office for all their problems, tell lots of lies, and using their power to fight against the demographic changes of the their city and county. The analogy, as this article points out, is imperfect but nonetheless resonant.

The problem for both Rudy and Trump and the people they claim to represent is that, ultimately, they can't change the future -- NYC is very different in 2013 than it was in 1989 (and 1993) and America will be a very different country in 2049 than it is today.

And one way we can make that change is here in NYC, specifically Queens, by voting for Tiffany Caban in the Queens DA race. A social justice reformer, she promises to radically change how we prosecute and handle crime. That's how we can fight the power of the likes of Rudy and Trump -- fight, vote, and make the future we want.