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On 23 December 2016, the New York arts and entertainment magazine Artvoice published a year-end feature consisting of four questions asked of prominent New Yorkers about their hopes for the coming year amd their responses. One of the respondents was Carl Paladino, described in the piece as a developer, school board member, political activist, who also happens to be the former New York co-chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Of the four answers Paladino gave, two were non-controversial (to non-New Yorkers, at any rate), but the remaining pair set off a social media firestorm, for reasons that are presumably self-evident: Paladino's comments were quickly condemned as racist, incendiary, and divisive by, among others, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: For his part, Paladino didn't back down from or apologize for the remarks. To the contrary, in a statement to Artvoice he denied any racist import and doubled down on his disparagement of the Obamas and White House aide Valerie Jarrett: Paladino's full statement, which can be read here, ends on a defiantly unapologetic note. And yes, he writes, it’s about a little deprecating humor which America lost for a long time. Merry Christmas and tough luck if you don’t like my answer. President-elect Trump's transition team issued a statement later the same day saying Paladino's comments were absolutely reprehensible and serve no place in our public discourse,
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