Weaver later described private property, especially homeownership, as a weapon of white supremacy presented as wealth-building policy.
“New York: Consider this your official notice from the Justice Department. We will NOT tolerate discrimination based on skin color. It is ILLEGAL.”
Speaker capacity
Assistant attorney general for civil rights
Editorial rationale
The official warning is an adverse response to Weaver’s rhetoric and appointment, while not alleging that a specific discriminatory act had already occurred.
A deleted November 2018 post attributed to New York City tenant official Cea Weaver said, “Impoverish the white middle class. Homeownership is racist / failed public policy.” The wording resurfaced after Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Weaver to lead the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. Critics called the language racist, extreme, or disqualifying; defenders emphasized Weaver’s tenant-advocacy record and argued that the backlash served real-estate interests. Weaver expressed regret for some old wording without specifically retracting this sentence.