Baltimore Mayor Calls Out Critics Who ‘Don’t Have Courage To Say N-Word’

Photo: Getty Images Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott blasted critics for not having “the courage to say the N-word” after he was labeled a “DEI mayor” in the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Scott faced blame from several social media users over the collapse, which has left at least six people dead. After being deemed “Baltimore’s DEI mayor” on social media, MSNBC host Joy Reid asked Scott if he had a response “to the tomfoolery and attacks on you for having the nerve to be Black and also a mayor.” “I know, and we know, and you know very well that Black men, and young Black men in particular, have been the bogeyman for those who are racist and think that only straight, wealthy White men should have a say in anything,” Scott said. “We’ve been the bogeyman for them since the first day they brought us to this country, and what they mean by DEI in my opinion is duly elected incumbent.” “We know what they want to say, but they don’t have the courage to say the N-word, and the fact that I don’t believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology,” he continued. “And I am...