Thursday, March 28, 2024

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott: Might As Well Call Me.... Stop Whistling!

The far right label Black leaders a DEI hire. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott look at the Patapsco River and the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Congress wants to ban TikTok for being "associated to China." Yet, X allows the most vile and racist figures back on the platform. It promotes propaganda from Russia, Israel and white nationalists. Congress doesn't want to drag Elon Musk into testify to why that platform is promoting election denialism, racism, graphic violence, adult content, child pornography, copyright infringement, malware, spam and misinformation.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Wes Moore, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Maryland's U.S. Representatives and Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott have promised to rebound after a cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge immediately collapsed and it killed at least six people.
Two people were rescued from the river; one had no injuries, while the other was transported to a hospital in critical condition. Six members of a construction crew working on the roadway were reported missing, presumed dead. Two bodies were recovered.

NOAA reported a water temperature of 47 °F (8 °C) at the time of the collapse. Two people were rescued from the river, one of whom was in "very serious" condition, while the other person was said to have walked off with no injuries. One of those rescued was a Mexican national. Six people – all part of the construction crew working on the bridge – were reported missing and are presumed dead following the suspension of a U.S. Coast Guard search effort. One of them was identified as a Honduran national; two were from Guatemala, and the others were from El Salvador and Mexico.

At least five submerged vehicles, including three passenger vehicles and a cement truck, were detected using sonar. Emergency services also used drones and infrared technology in search efforts. The bodies of two of the construction crew have been recovered from inside a pickup truck, 35-year-old Alejandro Fuentes of Mexico and 26-year-old Dorlian Cabrera of Guatemala. 38-year-old Maynor Sandoval of Honduras and 49-year-old Miguel Luna of El Salvador have been identified as among the missing.

The bridge which is part of the Baltimore Loop (Interstate 695) is indefinitely closed from the Sparrows Point at the Port of Baltimore to Maryland State Route 210.

Truck traffic which bypasses the city is now forced to alternate. It may spark concerns of rising costs in products affecting millions of Americans. 

Of course, the far right which has nothing but contempt for Biden will blame him.

I am assured that former president Donald J. Trump will lose 4% of the Black vote thanks to this. I am assured that Biden will fear the rise of that fool Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. trying to whitesplain to Blacks why he is the best choice over the two. All three of them support Israel, older than 70 and have been stuck on stupid.

Trump already is spreading conspiracy theories about the collapse. His allies are also involved in this noise. They are also dog whistling this with an attack on Scott, the crew and the victims.

The crew of MV Dali were Indian nationals. They were not injured. The pilots of the cargo ship will be investigated.

Scott, 39 is the current mayor of the city.

He is pretty pissed. This bridge affects the city and economy. We will see a rise in prices due to this.

He hopes the government can pass legislation to fast track a repair of the bridge. 

Mind you, the Francis Scott Key Bridge was privately funded through tolls and state bonds. A fast track to fixing the bridge could tale three years or longer but it will be done.

Now the racism.

X, formerly Twitter was sold to Elon Musk. He turned the social media platform into a free for all [but not limited]. He has been actively pushing anti-immigrant and anti-diversity propaganda through many of these extreme right influencers.

He has even went as far to make conspiracy theories to why the bridge collapsed.

Buttigieg is being attacked for this. Even though the bridge was nearly 50 years old, the cargo ship did not purposely hit bridge and it is because he is gay, the far right has to find some form of outrage over it.

Also this "comedian" named Elijah Schaffer at the Gateway Pundit decided to take this a little bit further by dehumanizing Scott to broken ebonics.

Scott on the other hand was called a DEI mayor because he looked like a "thug."

The account that made that remark since went viral and it prompt Scott to react to it on MSNBC's The Reid Out with Joy Reid. Scott flipped the word and called for Black America to know what's at stake this election.

Reid prefaced her interview with Scott, who is Black, by calling attention to a tweet describing Scott as “Baltimore’s DEI mayor.” That post, which references the acronym that stands for diversity, equity and inclusion, has generated more than 25 million views, along with a clarifying community note on X.

“I cannot believe I have to say this,” Reid began. “Brandon Scott was elected with 70 percent of the vote in 2020 in a city that is 61 percent Black. So by right-wing logic, a ‘diversity hire’ would have been a white man.”

Reid then asked Scott if he wanted to address the “tomfoolery” of those attacking him “for having the nerve to be Black and also a mayor.” He obliged.

“I know, and we all 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.”

Scott later told Reid he knows what those critics “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, and I am very proud of my heritage and who I am and where I come from, scares them,” Scott said.

He continued, “Because me being at my position means that their way of thinking, their way of life of being comfortable while everyone else suffers, is going to be at risk, and they should be afraid because that’s my purpose in life.”

To add more noise to this discussion. 

The controversial Talbert Swan, the Black Catholic bishop who is a leftist. He flat out said that all this anti-woke, anti-DEI, all this scapegoating Black issues is basically the far right and white supremacists definition of NIGGER.

DEI has become a frequent target for right-wing attacks in recent years including in Florida, which has banned the use of state and federal funds for DEI programs at public colleges, and Texas.

Others such as Florida congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini declared “DEI did this” in response to the collapse while Utah Rep. Phil Lyman, a GOP gubernatorial candidate in the state, took aim at Maryland port commissioner Karenthia A. Barber, the first Black woman to hold the title.

“This is what happens when you have Governors who prioritize diversity over the wellbeing and security of citizens,” wrote Lyman, who later posted that “DEI=DIE.”

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