Racial politics color New York City’s looming mayoral race
Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t much of a dancer.
But there he was on a recent Sunday morning, bobbing his head and bending his knees ever so slightly, as the Lenox Road Baptist Church choir belted out another hymn. He was the only white person celebrating with the congregation, gathered in a central Brooklyn house of worship he was visiting for the first time since becoming New York City’s mayor nearly four years ago.
“I need you,” de Blasio told congregants after the music stopped.