Exclusive | Black New York homeowners blast Mamdani’s radical tenant advocate Cea Weaver: ‘White supremacy? I’m not white’

Black New York homeowners are stunned by Mayor Mamdani’s radical-left tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, who claimed property ownership is a weapon of “white supremacy” and should be abolished — insisting it’s an “essential” element of black wealth and her comments devalue their participation in the American Dream.

“White supremacy? I’m not white,” said Renee Gregory, president of Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant Inc., which was founded in 1978 to help keep black homeowners in the historically black neighborhood.

“I read Weaver’s comments. I don’t know where they come from,” a perplexed Gregory added, explaining the 37-year-old’s past comments have become the talk of black “brownstoners” in the neighborhood.

Weaver’s inflammatory hot takes were found in archived X posts just days after she was appointed to lead Mamdani’s Office to Protect Tenants on Jan. 1.

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she railed in a 2019 post.

“Homeownership is racist/failed public policy,” she also wrote, advocating for a “collective” ownership and “shared equity” of property in the future.

But many black New Yorkers think Weaver — a middle-class white woman who attended pricey private college Bryn Mawr College and NYU — doesn’t know the first thing about what they need.

“Home ownership is an essential element of black wealth. It’s repugnant to attach yourself to policies that would look to devalue home ownership,” said Marlon Rice, who is running the Democratic primary for the 25th State Senate District in Brooklyn.

“We should be fortifying pathways to home ownership,” he added, echoing comments from a recent Substack where he told how he was raised in a stable home because his father was able to buy a brownstone in 1979.

“Purchasing his home was a tool to help uplift his family out of poverty, not a tool of white supremacy,” he wrote of his father’s success.

Many black homeowners in Bedford-Stuyvesant — a predominantly black neighborhood — agreed, sounding off about Weaver’s foolish declaration.

The population of the Brooklyn suburb is 41% black, according to US Census data — which is more than double the rate in New York as a whole.

“It don’t make no sense,” said 77-year-old Ducilla Joseph, a Trinidadian immigrant who came to the US in 1988 and used to work seven-day weeks so she could buy her Bed-Stuy apartment 11 years later.

“It is a blessing to own a home,” Joseph told The Post. “This is like a rich neighborhood. I’m a poor woman living in a rich neighborhood!

“Because I’m not rich. I don’t have the money. The money is in the house,” she said.

Philip Solomon, a 51-year-old who’s owned a Green Ave. brownstone in Bed-Stuy for 17 years, called Weaver’s comments “illogical.”

“I don’t want to believe that that’s what she intended to say,” Solomon said.

“I grew up watching [the Cosby Show], and looking at a brown family on national network television,” he recalled. “It gave me the idea that one day you can have a home in New York City.

“In a way, this is kind of like a dream realized,” he continued.

“Home ownership is one of those things, you know, you go to get an education, get married. It’s sort of like the pillars of our culture. To do it in New York City is so much sweeter.”

Former Mayor Eric Adams — himself a Brooklyn landlord — even weighed in, calling Weaver “completely out of your f—king mind” in an exasperated X post.

“Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle,” Adams wrote.

“That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.”

Weaver, for her part, said she finds the comments “regretful” but stopped short of taking responsibility and apologizing.

“I think that some of those things are certainly not how I would say things today, and are regretful,” she told NY1 days after the controversial posts were unearthed.

“I do think my sort of decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing sort of stands on its own.”

Weaver — who also once said “there is no such thing as a good gentrifier” — herself lives in rapidly gentrifying Crown Heights.

The Rochester native has been a tenant rights advocate for years—previously directing the New York State Tenant Bloc and helping pass the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act while leading Housing Justice for All.

Mamdani defended his decision to appoint the radical leftist as his top tenant advocate after the incendiary comments surfaced, but insisted he didn’t share her viewpoints on private property.

“Obviously, that’s not an opinion that I share,” Hizzoner told Pix 11.

“I made the decision to have her as our executive director of the mayor’s office to protect tenants, not because of her comments, but because of her work.”