Westchester

Today, Mount Vernon, New York, faces a 21st-century plan for colonization implemented by backroom deal-making where developers, politicians, and the Black misleadership class join forces to plot how to divide our city. Their tools aren’t the treaties and the weapons of old, but of rezoning maps and austerity budgets. Their targets aren’t the ivory and rubber that European colonists sought in Africa, but Black neighborhoods, Latino labor, and the political autonomy of working-class people. Mount Vernon, a majority Black and Latino community, is often called the “Jewel of Westchester”.