Los Angeles Burned, Now They’re Coming for Karen Bass

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass (Photo Credit: AP under a Creative Commons 4.0 license). The first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of L.A. is under attack by conservative trolls like Elon Musk and Donald Trump. By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier This article was originally published on& Word In Black. It was a perfect recipe for a disaster in Los Angeles: 10 months of drought after a summer of record-setting heat. Bone-dry scrub grass and vegetation — near-unlimited wildfire fuel.& Hurricane-force winds barreling down from mountains, packing gusts of up to 90 miles per hour.& But apparently Karen Bass — the first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles — was supposed to snap her Black Girl Magic fingers and stop the massive, Santa Ana wind-driven, climate change-fueled fires in her city that have killed five people and burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. On TV, in social media and in the newspapers, conservatives are blasting Bass for an environmental disaster that’s out of her control.& The devastation in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood — as well as other parts of Los Angeles County, like Altadena and Pasadena, where Bass isn’t even in charge —...