Letitia James: So let us begin and repeat after me…
Zhoran Mamdani: (Places hand on the Quran)
Letitia James: “I…”
Zhoran Mamdani: “I…”
Letitia James: “Zohran Kwame Mamdani”
Zhoran Mamdani: “Zhoran Kwame Mandani.”
Letitia James: “Do solemnly swear.”
Zhoran Mamdani: “Do solemnly swear.”
And so on and so forth. Congrats to the new mayor of the five boroughs. But why did James begin by asking Mamdani to say the word “I”? Isn’t that kind of lame? If I’d administered the oath, I would have begun with…
Hollywood Elsewhere: “I, Zoran Kwame Mamdani, do solemnly swear…”
Zhoran Mamdani: “I, Zoran Kwame Mamdani, do solemnly swear…” and so on.