As Black Mayor Handles Bridge Tragedy, Racists Blow Dog Whistle

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(WIB) – America’s anti-DEI crusaders — or, more accurately, the nation’s shameless racists and unabashed white supremacists who want to say the N-word publicly but don’t have the guts — are at it again. Hours after the& Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster unfolded in his city, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott appeared with fire department and rescue squad commanders for a press conference. As rescue divers continued searching the frigid Patapsco River for possible survivors, Scott appeared shaken as he began his remarks, carried on live TV nationwide.“This is an unthinkable tragedy,” Scott, 39 and the youngest Black mayor in Baltimore history, told reporters. “We have to first and foremost pray for all of those who are impacted, those families, pray for our first responders and thank them. We have to be thinking about the families and people impacted. We have to try to find them safe.”Maybe it was the fact that Scott is a young Black man with a neatly trimmed beard and modest Afro. Perhaps it was the fact that he was wearing a baseball jacket with the seal of Baltimore and his name embroidered on it. It could have been Scott’s unscripted, heart-on-his-sleeve concern for the road repair...

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