Mayoral candidate says he will be first African American mayor

Eddy Aragon says if you vote for him, you would elect the city’s first African American mayor. “I’m only talking about my background, my diversity. Hispanic, certainly Native American, Black,” said the talk show host. We have a great history here in the city of Albuquerque, and I think I reflect well the cross-section of the population living here in Albuquerque. “” Elect Albuquerque’s first black mayor and make Albuquerque great again. When asked if he would consider himself the first African American mayor in Albuquerque, he replied, “As part of my story? I don’t know. It depends on whether the community would think of me that way.” Aragon says he did did a DNA test that found he was “4.6% black and that there are twice as many blacks as Albuquerque.” “That comes straight from an ancestry test,” he said did what you wiped and mailed it in and you get it back and it tells you what percentage you are. ”He also says that there aren’t enough African Americans working for the city and if he’s elected , he would change that. “Only 1.7 percent of all city employees are black,” he said.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM –

Eddy Aragon says if you vote you would elect the city’s first African American mayor.

“I just talk about my background, my diversity. Hispanic American, certainly Indian, black, ”said the host of the radio talk show. “We have a great history here in the city of Albuquerque, and I think I’m a good“ reflection of the cross-section of the population living here in Albuquerque. “

Aragon posted on his broadcaster’s website and Facebook page, urging people to “elect Albuquerque’s first black mayor and make Albuquerque great again.”

When asked if he would consider himself the first African American mayor in Albuquerque, he replied, “As part of my story? I do not know. It depends on whether the community would see me as such. “

Aragon says he did a DNA test that found he was “4.6% black and that this is twice the percentage of blacks in Albuquerque.”

“That comes straight from a parentage test,” he said. “And referring to, you did what you wiped it off and sent it in and you got it back and it told you what percentage you are.”

He also says there aren’t enough African Americans working for the city and if he is elected he would change that.

“Only 1.7 percent of all city employees are black,” he said.