New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is entertaining the possibility of cash reparations for slavery, calling the city “very complicit” in the institution that was outlawed in the state nearly 200 years ago. 'This is also what it looks like to acknowledge what history truly was.' Blow asked Mamdani about a written statement on reparations the mayor had submitted while on the campaign trail last year. “Here in New York City, we were very complicit.” However, if New York City decides to move forward with a reparations program, the federal government could stand in its way.