It's the Brian Lerrishow on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now we'll turn to the New York City mail race.

Today's segment will include our weekly Wednesday visit from WNYC political reporter Elizabeth Kim.

She'll be joined this week by Christina Greer, the Fordham University Political Science Professor

and co-host of the podcast, FAQ, NYC. Our coverage will also include today's installment of our 30

issues and 30 days election series, issue number eight,

how to maximize racial justice and racial equality in New York. And is that any different of a

conversation now that there is no longer a black candidate in the race? We'll begin that part

with the Reverend Al Sharpton in just a minute, but just to remind everyone of how far from equality we still are,

just one or two things by way of background. A report by Comptroller Bradlander in 2023

found the historic disparities in wealth, or as bad as ever, the report looked at figures for New York State

and found, quote, for white New Yorkers, median household net worth is $276,000, which is nearly

15 times greater than the median household net worth of black New Yorkers, which is only about

$19,000. And we could go down the list of savage inequalities that you're probably familiar

with in education metrics in life expectancy in incarceration rates maternal mortality so who's best

for black New Yorkers in general who has policies that could diminish racial disparities in general on so many

basic things. Our first guest for about 10 minutes is the Reverend Al Sharpton, longtime civil

rights leader, host of MSNBC's Politics Nation, weekends at 5 p.m. and his radio show,

keeping it real, weekdays at one, founder and president of the National Action Network, and author of books, including righteous troublemakers, released in 2022.

And when Mayor Adams dropped his re-election bid on Sunday, Reverend Sharpton released a statement wishing Adams the best and saying, quote, we've been friends for nearly 35 years and he helped us establish

the National Action Network in 1991. He's been a friend of NAN year and a year out since, especially

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