Andrew Cuomo's "As a New Yorker..." Quote

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Andrew Cuomo's "As a New Yorker…" Quote refers to jokes made about New York State governor Andrew Cuomo attempting to state that he represented the diverse population of Nwe York by saying, "As a New Yorker, I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking to control her body. We are one New York." Though the quote was stated in 2017, jokes about it appeared over a year, starting April 19th, 2018, after it appeared in a popular tweet parodying the statement. Some users assumed the quote was recent and was said as a result of Cynthia Nixon's Gubernatorial Campaign, which challenges Cuomo from the political left.

Origin

On January 29th, 2017, Cuomo delivered a speech in which he stated "As a New Yorker, I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking to control her body. We are one New York." The moment was tweeted from his official Twitter account (shown below).

Spread

On April 19th, 2018, the tweet began circulating again following a tweet by Twitter user and New Yorker employee Talia Lavin^[1] parodying Cuomo's statement, gaining over 620 retweets and 3,000 likes.

After that tweet spread, several Twitter users joked in a similar fashion. Many users made the joke with the lyrics to "I'm a Bitch" by Meredith Brooks. User Eve Peyser made the joke and gained over 170 retweets and 1,000 likes in less than an hour (shown below, left). User @mekosoff made the joke and gained over 110 retweets and 730 likes (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users joked about the tweet by including various other lists. User @BarstoolNewsN joked about the tweet by writing the lyrics to The Fairly Oddparents, gaining over 50 retweets and 260 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @HashtagGriswold did the joke with the lyrics to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (shown below, right).

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