Up in New York City, Mayor DeBlasio is having some headaches:

City investigators have opened an inquiry into Rachel Noerdlinger, the chief of staff to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, over her failure to disclose during a background check that she shares a home with a boyfriend whose criminal record and statements against law enforcement have become the subject of controversy, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The boyfriend, Hassaun McFarlan, who resides with Ms. Noerdlinger in Edgewater, N.J., has written provocative online posts criticizing the police and has a long record of arrests, including a conviction for manslaughter when he was a teenager and an episode last fall when he nearly ran over a New Jersey state trooper while driving Ms. Noerdlinger’s car.

Noerdlinger is no stranger to controversy; she was Al Sharpton’s publicist. Back in 2007, after describing her own experience as an African-American child adopted by white parents, she concluded:

It is too easy to say I am against transracial adoption. But I do think it should be a last resort. Although love should be enough, love does not prepare an African American child for the society we live in. And love does not replace the importance of knowing your own ethnicity and culture.

I wonder what the mayor thinks of the suggestion that the love of a white parent is somehow deficient or insufficient for raising an African-American child; he’s a white man married to a black woman with two children.