While Twitter banned former President Trump along with a growing list of conservatives, it continues to provide a platform for Islamist terror groups and leaders.


	Including Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1558121314313031687">who used Twitter</a> to endorse Iran's ongoing murder fatwa calling for the killing of author Salman Rushdie.


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	Let's recall that fatwa again.

<blockquote>
	
		"In the name of Allah... I am informing all brave Muslims of the world that the author of&nbsp; The Satanic Verses , a text written, edited, and published against Islam, the Prophet of Islam, and the Qu’ran, along with all the editors and publishers aware of its contents, are condemned to death. I call on all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world to kill them without delay, so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth. Whoever is killed in this cause will be a martyr, Allah willing, Meanwhile if someone has access to the author of the book but is incapable of carrying out the execution, he should inform the people so that [Rushdie] is punished for his actions.

	
		May peace and blessings of Allah be upon you."
</blockquote>


	This is what Twitter is fine with.


	Even after Rushdie's stabbing, Twitter has done nothing. It's not concerned about violence. It's a leftist company allied with Islamists which is fine with any kind of doxxing, violent threats and violence as long as it's directed at those it deems to be ideological enemies.

Twitter Let Iran Leader Stay Despite Inciting Attack on Rushdie

While Twitter banned former President Trump along with a growing list of conservatives, it continues to provide a platform for Islamist terror groups and

Twitter Let Iran Leader Stay Despite Inciting Attack on Rushdie

First things first, let's look at how open-ended the search warrant is.


	We were repeatedly told that the documents in question&nbsp;were secured in boxes in a particular room with a padlock on it. That there had been ongoing negotiations about turning those documents over.


	The search warrant however sought a broad spectrum search of "locations to be searched include the "45 Office," all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate."


	Pretty much everything.


	The list of property to be seized begins with classified documents and escalates from there to... everything.


	Here's Item C. "Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021".


	The search for classified documents is a pretext for a fishing expedition by agents of the ruling party.


	What's the first item on the list?


	"Executive Grant of Clemency re: Roger Jason Stone, Jr."


	This is not about classified documents.


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Search Warrant Shows FBI Raid Was a Fishing Expedition

First things first, let's look at how open-ended the search warrant is.


	We were repeatedly told that the documents in question&nbsp;were secured in boxes

Search Warrant Shows FBI Raid Was a Fishing Expedition

Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced to spend a chunk of his life in hiding because his book, The Satanic Verses, offended Islamic religious authorities in Iran who imposed a murder fatwa on him, was stabbed in the neck and had to be airlifted to a hospital when he was <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/salman-rushdie-stabbed-eyewitnesses-say-he-was-hit-10-15-times-it-lasted-20-seconds-3250217">attacked on stage</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;Author Salman Rushdie, being stabbed at an event in New York State on Friday, suffered "10 to 15" blows in the attack, eyewitnesses said. One of them said she thought it was "a stunt" at first.

	
		"This guy ran on to platform and started pounding on Mr&nbsp;Rushdie," said Rabbi Charles Savenor, who was in the audience for the lecture at Chautauqua Institution, about 100 km from the city.&nbsp;

	
		A reporter from AP said the attacker "punched or stabbed&nbsp;Mr Rushdie&nbsp;10 to 15 times".

	
		"At first you're like, ‘What's going on?' And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten," Mr Savenor told the news agency.&nbsp;He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds.
</blockquote>


	The media, at least in this country, has wrapped itself in knots to avoid using the "I" word.&nbsp;


	Back when Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses, it was controversial. Today, any kind of criticism of Mohammed is considered hate speech and censored to such a degree that the media would not even report what an Indian elected official said about Mohammed's pedophilic tendencies, only to denounce it as hurtful and hateful to Muslims.


	Today, a new author could never publish something like that. And the media is uncomfortable even discussing what it is that Rushdie wrote.


	The various condemnations likewise don't mention Islam, Islamic terrorism or any beyond generic concepts like "freedom of expression."


	Long before this attack, the sharia censorship that Iran wanted to impose on Americans had already been achieved. 
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Media Tries to Report on Salman Rushdie Stabbing Without Mentioning "Islam"

Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced to spend a chunk of his life in hiding because his book, The Satanic Verses, offended Islamic religious authorities in

Media Tries to Report on Salman Rushdie Stabbing Without Mentioning "Islam"

Biden's a little over the age and generation of participation trophies, but it's incredible what a low bar is being set.


	The media has spent over a week taking a victory lap on Biden's behalf because he managed to get a watered-down version of the bill through after it was held hostage by two senators from his own party.


	As the signature accomplishment for a year and likely a presidential term, it's really pathetic.


	Even in isolation from the national disaster that is the economy, the massive crime and all the other political, social, cultural, medical and assorted other problems, it would be a pretty poor accomplishment for the president of a party that holds majorities in the House and the Senate, to claim victory for managing to get a bill passed.


	Especially when that bill was blocked by two Senate members from his own party who determined the final content of it.


	Never mind doing a time when most people are focused on inflation, crime, diminishing hopes and national conflict.


	But&nbsp;Joe "Low Expectations" Biden always seems to get graded on a curve.


	Did he manage to recite most of his teleprompter speech without fumbling it too much? A+


	Is his approval rating at 40%? Gold star!


	Is the catastrophic inflation only slightly higher in the latest selectively categorized report? He's the new FDR! Happy days are here again!


	I don't know if this is a general attempt by the media to salvage the reputation of the Democrats ahead of the midterms or to make Biden feel like he can retire a winner. Probably both. Certainly the former. But even Obama wasn't this condescended to for pretty much just getting out of bed in the morning.

Joe "Low Expectations" Biden Always Gets Graded On a Curve

Biden's a little over the age and generation of participation trophies, but it's incredible what a low bar is being set.


	The media has spent over a week

Joe "Low Expectations" Biden Always Gets Graded On a Curve

Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.


	Here's California <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/california-descendants-slavery-data-disaggregation">dividing black people</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		California has become the first in the nation to require state agencies to include a separate category for descendants of enslaved people in its collection of employee data.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;Advocates say the data disaggregation will help identify and address long-held inequities within black communities. Many descendants see it as a model for other states — and the federal government —&nbsp;to follow.
</blockquote>


	An obvious point is that many of the country's highest black officials are the children of African immigrants or visitors, including Obama and Kamala Harris.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		A&nbsp;2016 study&nbsp;found that in Los Angeles, the median net worth for a black descendant of enslaved people is $4,000 compared to $72,000 for a recent immigrant from the African continent.
</blockquote>


	Also obviously true. And it makes a certain amount of sense to focus affirmative action benefits on American black people rather than African immigrants. But the upshot is that this pushes further subdivisions into identity politics.

<blockquote>
	
		Organizers took a page out of Asian American advocates' book after seeing their successful effort to push the state to&nbsp;break down different ethnic groups&nbsp;in health data collection.
</blockquote>


	If you thought American identity politics wasn't divisive enough, we'll start creating black ethnic groups to build new models of privilege and oppression within the black community.

<blockquote>
	
		No one is denying that back people&nbsp;at large are marginalized in America, said Chris Lodgson, lead organizer of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California. But the kind of historical oppression he faces as a descendant has different consequences than the inequities more recent immigrants face, he added.

	
		"One of the things that is core to any group's existence is their identity," Lodgson noted. "When we use these big broad categories called black or African American, not only do we hide the differences between the different groups ... [it also] prevents us from even being able to do anything about any of those differences."
</blockquote>


	What the Axios story doesn't mention is that the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California is all about ":reparations" and this paves the way for deciding who gets them and who doesn't.


	Sorry, Kamala.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Editor's note: This is the 14th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	Bill de Blasio has been the mayor of New York City for nearly eight years. He has a habit of frequently and proudly proclaiming his unwavering commitment to protecting the civil and human rights of New York’s black community. No doubt he is sincere in his belief that he is a white champion for the African American cause. But the unspoken, uncomfortable truth that de Blasio will never acknowledge is that he in fact sees black men and women not as fully developed human beings entirely capable of having agency over their own lives, but rather, as profoundly handicapped beings who are to be forever pitied. He sees them not as dignified adults, but as pathetic, incompetent, childlike victims of a society so cruel, that only the paternalistic helping hand of sanctimonious white leftists like Bill de Blasio can save them. 
	 
	Among the handmaidens of paternalistic, sanctimonious white leftists are black revolutionaries for whom the doctrine of eternal black victimhood is forever the coin of the realm. As such, de Blasio encourages black Americans to hitch their hopes and dreams to the angry rantings of people like <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/al-sharpton">Al Sharpton</a>. In one of his first speeches as mayor-elect, for instance, de Blasio visited Sharpton’s National Action Network and&nbsp;<a href="http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/de-blasio-pushes-aggressive-agenda-at-sharpton-meeting/">stated</a>: “Every year Reverend Sharpton is becoming stronger as a leader, is reaching farther as a leader…. And he’ll be the first one up to stand up for justice. I gotta tell you guys, he’s a blessing for all of us.” A few weeks into his first term as mayor, de Blasio <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-METROB-20281">said</a> at the National Action Network’s annual conference in New York: “I just want everyone to know I am proud to stand with Rev. Sharpton. Because to borrow a phrase from our youth, Reverend, ‘you’re the real thing.’” And at Sharpton’s 60th birthday celebration on October 1, 2014, de Blasio <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/02/cuomo-de-blasio-torn-between-church-dinner-sharptons-birthday/">characterized</a> him as “a blessing for this city,” adding: “The more people criticize him, the more I want to hang out with him.” 
	 
	On none of those occasions did de Blasio make even a passing mention of <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/al-sharpton">Sharpton’s long history as an outspoken racist and Jew-hater</a>. That’s because in de Blasio’s mind, black contempt for whites and Jews is nothing more than karma. 
	 
	At de Blasio’s first swearing-in ceremony as mayor on January 1, 2014,&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/41618/de-blasio-inaguration-featured-prayer-by-pro">prayer</a>&nbsp;was delivered by prison chaplain Askia Muhammad, a former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6600">Nation of Islam</a>&nbsp;member and an avid supporter of none other than <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325">Louis Farrakhan</a>. Farrakhan, you may recall, has distinguished himself by describing Adolf Hitler as “a&nbsp;<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/11/16/twitter-refuses-to-unverify-noted-anti-semite-louis-farrakhan/">very great man</a>,” and has spent many decades denouncing “white devils” and the “<a href="https://www.adl.org/education/resources/reports/nation-of-islam-farrakhan-in-his-own-words">satanic</a>” Jewish “<a href="https://journaltimes.com/news/national/farrakhan-defends-term-bloodsuckers/article_e7845c45-0a48-58c5-8a77-46adf7e8a0cc.html">bloodsuckers</a>” who practice a “<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1874787.stm">gutter religion</a>.” 
	 
	De Blasio was outraged after a Staten Island grand jury decided, in December 2014, not to indict a white New York City&nbsp;police officer whose recent effort to arrest an uncooperative black criminal named Eric Garner had tragically resulted in Garner’s death – largely because of the latter’s pre-existing, underlying medical morbidities. “There are so many families in this city who [wonder] each and every night, is my child safe?” the mayor <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/03/03/de-blasio-defends-training-dante-to-behave-around-cops/">lamented</a> in response to the grand jury’s decision. “And not just from … crime and violence … but are they safe from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors?” “[O]ur history, sadly, requires us to say that black lives matter,” de Blasio <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/207148-nyc-commissar-bill-de-blasio-blames-centuries-of-racism-for-garner-ruling/">added</a>. “Because as I said the other day, we’re not just dealing with a problem in 2014. We’re not dealing with years of racism leading up to it, or decades of racism. We are dealing with centuries of racism that have brought us to this day. That is how profound the crisis is..” 
	 
	In a July 2016&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/politics/bill-de-blasio-chirlane-mccray-black-lives-matter/">interview</a>&nbsp;with CNN, de Blasio praised the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7876">Black Lives Matter</a>&nbsp;movement, saying: “I think that movement, just the very phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ has changed the national discussion … for the better.” On another occasion, he <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/07/de-blasio-defends-black-lives-matter-as-bratton-asks-where-are-the-anti-crime-protests-103688">described</a> Black Lives Matter as a “positive movement” that had “hit the right note” on the subject of racism and police violence in America. In short, the mayor was proud to voice his high esteem for an avowedly Marxist, anti-Semitic, racial supremacist movement whose most revered icon is <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/assata-shakur/">Assata Shakur</a>, a lifelong Marxist revolutionary whose greatest claim to fame was her cold-blooded, execution-style murder of a white state trooper. 
	 
	During a June 30, 2020 appearance on MSNBC’s&nbsp;Morning Joe&nbsp;program, de Blasio proudly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/01/de-blasio-doubles-down-on-threat-to-paint-black-lives-matter-in-front-of-trump-tower-vows-to-use-defunded-police-money-to-pay-for-it/">emphasized</a>&nbsp;the “profound change” that would be taking place in New York – in the form of defunding the city’s police department -- so as to promote the creation of a “safer city in the future.” He also announced that some of the money that was being taken from the NYPD would be used to fund the&nbsp;painting&nbsp;of the words “Black Lives Matter,” in massive yellow letters, onto the pavement of Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. “We’re going to take this moment in history and amplify it by taking the ‘Black Lives Matter’ symbolism and putting it all over this city, including right in front of Trump Tower,” said the mayor. In a photo op, de Blasio himself actually&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/nyc-allows-black-lives-matter-marches-despite-ban-on-large-events/">helped</a>&nbsp;paint the words on the street, as did his wife, Chirlane McCray, and his beloved ally, Al Sharpton. 
	 
	During a July 9, 2020 interview with CNN,&nbsp;de Blasio&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/nyc-allows-black-lives-matter-marches-despite-ban-on-large-events/">stated</a>&nbsp;that while all large scheduled events in the city, such as parades and festivals, were being cancelled&nbsp;for the foreseeable future because of concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, he would nonetheless permit hundreds and thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through the streets whenever they wished. Why? Because the post-George Floyd era was “a historic moment of change,” the mayor explained. 
	 
	And what was the fruit of Mayor de Blasio’s love affair with Black Lives Matter and its war on the police? For one thing, as the NYPD’s Chief of Department, Terence Monahan,&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/nypd-animosity-towards-police-is-driving-spike-in-shootings/">put it</a> last summer: “The animosity towards police has been absolutely unbelievable.” And because so many cops understood that de Blasio and his administration could not in any way be trusted to support them, more than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers either retired or put in their papers to leave the department in 2020 — a 75 percent increase over the year before. 
	 
	Those factors — anti-police hatred coupled with widespread officer resignations — were, in turn, intimately linked to a spike in <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/are-nypd-officers-rushing-to-retire-amid-citys-anti-cop-climate/">crime rates</a> like the city had not seen in decades. From 2019 to 2020 in NYC, shootings <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/nyc-shootings-and-homicides-soared-in-2020-crime-data-shows/">increased</a> by 97%, murders by 44%, burglaries by 42%, and car thefts by 62%. Moreover, most of the perpetrators of those crimes -- as well as most of the victims -- were black residents of New York. A once-safe and well-ordered city suddenly turned into a war zone where the black lives that supposedly “mattered” so much to Mayor de Blasio were suddenly under continuous, violent assault. 
	 
	All because of a racist mayor who cloaks his exceedingly low regard for black people in the flowery, hollow rhetoric of “racial justice.” If New York were to have elected, as its mayor, a Klansman who openly wished to create an atmosphere that would inevitably lead to a massive increase in black death and suffering across the city, he could not have done any more to achieve such an objective than Mayor Bill de Blasio has done.


	Previous Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a>


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Racist Mayor: Bill de Blasio

Editor's note: This is the 14th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the 13th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments. 
	 
	Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. 
	 
	Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms became the mayor of Atlanta by 759 votes by accusing her opponent of racism for exposing voter fraud.


	Mary Norwood of Buckhead, who had lost the mayoral election against Bottoms' corrupt predecessor, Mohammed Kasim Reed, by 714 votes, had described how Democrats steal elections by bringing in “thugs” and pay people to vote.


	Bottoms claimed that the word “thugs” was racist.


	Even after winning by a margin suspiciously similar to that of Reed, who had endorsed her, Bottoms went on complaining about racism, and claiming that being accused of corruption was racist and “it was still shocking to me in Atlanta. I thought that we were way beyond that”.


	After George Floyd’s overdose death while in police custody, Bottoms showed up on Oprah and told the racist billionaire celebrity that, "My mother recently said to me that this America didn't feel like 1965 to her. It felt like something before 1965.” A black mayor in a city with an uninterrupted string of them for generations was claiming that segregation was back.


	When Rayshard Brooks, who had an extensive criminal record, was shot after struggling with police, Mayor Bottoms wasted no time with a press conference a few days later that falsely claimed, “we saw the murder of Rayshard Brooks” and cracked down on Atlanta police.


	Bottoms played the race card, describing his death as "so personal to so many people of color."


	"That could have been any one of us," the Atlanta politician, and daughter of the R&amp;B singer behind "Monkey Time" who used to open for the Beatles, claimed. Keisha Lance Bottoms spent years growing up in England and then back home in upscale Collier Heights until her father, Major Lance, who had sold millions of records, got addicted to cocaine and wrecked the family.


	The “us” rings hollow coming from the daughter of a superstar who had spent time studying at Cambridge University. Much as it did from Barack Obama and still does from Kamala Harris.


	But when she was running for office, Bottoms hit Mary Norwood with an attack ad for not “immediately” agreeing that racial profiling existed, sneering, “Mary and I live very different lives” and falsely claiming that the police were <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/ballot/mayors-race-2017-bottoms-attacks-norwood-over-racial-profiling-response/85-477590919">endangering</a> the lives of her three sons.


	“I live in southwest Atlanta,” Bottoms declared, neglecting to mention that she lives in a massive 5,000 square foot mansion in a neighborhood described by real estate agents as “upscale” and “prestigious” that’s a far cry from the modest <a href="https://www.wabe.org/mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-the-wabe-interview/">rundown home</a> of her grandparents where she stages interviews to act like she can relate to her poor black constituents. .


	While Bottoms enjoys her mansion, <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/07/01/atlanta-is-a-preview-of-what-joe-bidens-prefered-housing-policies-intend-for-the-suburbs-n1458831">she’s pushing for</a> an end to single-family zoning.


	The Democrat campaign to urbanize Atlanta suburbs and other suburbs across the country is meant to shatter middle class communities transforming homeowners into renters. That won’t affect Bottoms’ mansion, but it’s another reason why Buckhead is fighting to escape Atlanta.


	Destroying Atlanta’s black and white middle class by eliminating homeowners would kill what’s left of the city’s civic culture and allow the Democrats a tighter grip on power. Even as they are finishing up destroying the cities, the Democrats are moving to wreck the suburbs.


	Mayor Bottoms has overseen another burning of Atlanta while hiding behind racism smears. Atlanta’s new mayor, like other inauthentic Democrat elites, is adept at playing the race card.


	The death of Brooks led to another in a series of BLM riots and the site of the Wendy’s became the epicenter of a lawless zone occupied by criminals. BLM barricades were used to confront drivers who faced a choice between being terrorized or driving through the mob.


	Those who drove through the mob went to jail.


	In one of the cars was an 8-year-old girl named Secoriea Turner. As the car tried to turn around, the men at the BLM barricades opened fire killing the little girl.


	"They say Black Lives Matter. You killed your own this time," Secoriea's father said. "You killed my baby because she crossed a barrier and made a U-turn? She's a child. She didn't do nothing to nobody."


	It was July 4th. That weekend, 31 people were shot in Atlanta. The violence was so extreme that Gov. Brian Kemp <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/july-fourth-shooting-statistics-atlanta-police/85-da8960d3-ed66-4ecf-b9f0-9b1885bf7531">declared</a> a state of emergency and sent out the Georgia National Guard.


	The lawyer for Julian Conley, one of the alleged gunmen, claimed that he was just "peacefully protesting".


	Secoriea's family<a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/secoriea-turner-lawsuit/85-5c2906b8-5663-4a53-a9e8-8a7bb7a283d6"> sued</a> Mayor Bottoms, along with other city officials, for having "negligently performed their ministerial duties relating to the protection of the public’s health and safety, by omitting to act and clear the area of the barricade and the violent armed civilians that surrounded it." The officer wrongly fired over Brooks' death also sued Bottoms.


	Bottoms began her rise through the political ranks as a speechwriter for Attorney General&nbsp; Thurbert Baker. The first black Democrat AG in the state, despite having a partisan agenda on ObamaCare and redistricting, was popular because he was tough on crime. Three strikes weren’t good enough for Baker: he championed “Two Strikes and You’re Out”,<a href="https://law.georgia.gov/press-releases/2001-10-05/statement-attorney-general-thurbert-baker-supreme-court-decision-barring"> electrocuting criminals</a>, and <a href="https://law.georgia.gov/press-releases/1997-12-17/attorney-general-thurbert-baker-supports-end-parole">advocated</a> abolishing parole. Bottoms however championed criminals.


	When Black Lives Matter racists took to the street demanding police defunding, Bottoms claimed that she had already been <a href="https://reporternewspapers.net/2020/06/11/atlanta-mayor-says-city-has-been-defunding-the-police-for-the-last-few-years/">defunding the police</a> for years. Atlanta jail’s was going to be shut down and turned into a community center. Police defunding, like all pro-crime policies, always gets results and it was no different in Atlanta where murders <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/after-historically-deadly-2020-atlanta-homicides-are-up-nearly-60-in-2021/N63RJ5OKQZCZVOCNH2D6376S3E/">shot up 60%</a>.&nbsp;


	After the BLM riots, the chances of <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/verify/verify-atlanta-crime-versus-chicago/85-d157ec52-ab54-4a99-98f1-5ab9d97ea86b">being murdered</a> in Chicago and Atlanta were the same.


	Shootings went up 51%, while rapes and aggravated assaults rose by <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/verify/verify-atlanta-crime-versus-chicago/85-d157ec52-ab54-4a99-98f1-5ab9d97ea86b">double digits</a> after arrests dropped by<a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/atlanta-mayor-address-citys-crime-crisis-following-violent-weekend-that-left-22-shot-4-dead/V7U5MO5GLFDWXFGNOKDXVH5TPQ/"> over 40%</a>. As the violence spun out of control, the suburb of Buckhead announced that it was planning to secede from a city that was hitting rock bottom under Mayor Bottoms.


	As Atlanta burned, Bottoms reversed course from talking police defunding to hiring 250 more cops. Councilman Michael Julian Bond, who is black, <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/atlanta-mayor-address-citys-crime-crisis-following-violent-weekend-that-left-22-shot-4-dead/V7U5MO5GLFDWXFGNOKDXVH5TPQ/">blamed</a> Bottoms for anti-police moves. “Everybody watches the news and that includes the criminals. So if they know Atlanta is perceived to be soft on crime, they are going to come to Atlanta to cut up."


	And Mayor Bottoms <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/atlanta-bottoms-blames-crime-kemp">decided to </a>blame Gov. Kemp and Republicans for reopening the state along with "systemic issues of gun violence" and people with "mental illness" buying guns.


	It was the latest in a series of desperate excuses in which Bottoms tried to blame everyone else.


	The same gun laws, a typical Bottoms excuse, were there in 2019. And Atlanta’s crime wave began with the BLM riots, not with the reopening of the state. Secoriea Turner, as her family’s lawsuit testifies, was not murdered because of mental illness or gun laws, but because Bottoms turned over Atlanta to criminals in the hopes of moving up the political ladder of the Democrats.


	Her hopes have been dashed.


	Once touted as a potential Veep pick for Biden, Bottoms is not even running for reelection. But Kasim Reed, her predecessor, is thinking of making a comeback.


	As Buckhead, the home of Mary Norwood, ponders secession, it may become impossible for anyone except the same old mafia to win Atlanta. But Norwood’s narrow losses and the allegations of corruption will make it just as urgent for Bottoms’ successor to cry racism.


	Bottoms ran a racially charged campaign to dissuade black voters, <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/1204/In-Atlanta-some-black-voters-weigh-backing-city-s-first-white-woman-mayor">some of whom</a> were thinking of voting for Norwood. Before the election, voters across Atlanta received <a href="https://www.cbs46.com/news/campaign-robocall-aims-to-keep-atlanta-black/article_9dae37f5-bfca-54b8-8ecd-0794c1d2f51a.html">a call</a> telling them, "Keep Atlanta black. Vote Keisha Lance Bottoms.” Bottoms denied any involvement.


	Growing up, Bottoms described a world in which she believed that there were no white people in America. One magazine article <a href="https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/keishas-no-kasim-inside-bottomss-very-different-city-hall/">described</a> her surprise "as a preschooler at seeing a white woman working at a grocery store. Up to then, she’d thought only black people lived in the United States. England was for whites." It’s doubtful that Bottoms experienced much racism, but playing the race card to distract from her privilege has been her only political gambit.


	In the previous election, a black strategist described black voters <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/1204/In-Atlanta-some-black-voters-weigh-backing-city-s-first-white-woman-mayor">saying</a>, “‘What the [heck] has a black mayor done for me?’ They are the ones saying, ‘Let’s give white folks a chance.’”


	Any Democrat candidate who succeeds Bottoms will have to race bait even harder. And hope that black voters put racism ahead of the violence in the streets and the poverty in their homes.


	Previous Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Keisha Lance Bottoms

Editor's note: This is the 13th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the 12th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland is one of those sinewy male types who look as though they could live to be 100. &nbsp;His biography states that he loves any type of physical challenge: swimming laps, running half marathons, participating in triathlons and Iron Man contests. Not only that, but the 6 foot 59-year-old has climbed and reached the summit of Mount Everest and doesn’t let being mayor keep him from taking quick swims in Portland’s Willamette River. His picturesque Oregonian boyhood included hiking, camping and climbing local peaks, further proof, as if any was needed, that his favorite sort of challenge is the one-on-one variety--- or doing things his way. &nbsp;&nbsp;


	Wheeler’s fondness for no-contact athletics indicates a loner personality, so it comes as no surprise when in December 2018, just one year into his first term as mayor, Willamette Week, Portland’s newspaper, noted: “No man is an island, but Ted Wheeler looks marooned.” &nbsp;Of course he looks marooned. When you look a little deeper into the man’s bio, you realize that this a man who thinks he can do it all by himself, from climbing Everest to tackling triathlons, so it’s quite unlikely that he’s going to ask for help from teammates that do not exist. &nbsp;


	Wheeler was Oregon’s state treasurer from 2010 to 2016 prior to running for mayor. This experience caused him to be called a “pragmatic executive who challenges the status quo when the politics are on his side.” (Read this sentence twice for full effect.) As state treasurer, he supported a reform of the state’s retirement system and went against his fellow Democrats when he challenged plans for a new Interstate 5 bridge.


	Fast forward to 2021, when Wheeler’s mayoral “marathon” had reached a crisis point with critics pointing out that he was “trying to do too much, and do it on his own terms.”


	&nbsp;During his first year as mayor, the Willamette reported on the existence of “Extremist groups [that] regularly brawled in Portland streets at the behest of Joey Gibson, an unemployed Washington real estate broker who leads a right-wing group called Patriot Prayer.” The news insinuated that Patriot Prayer was a serious threat to urban peace and tranquility when in fact it was mostly a paper tiger with a “right wing extremist’ label stuck on it by so called antifascist groups who were really fascists themselves. &nbsp;In 2020 this fact would be made plainly clear when the so called anti fascists held the city hostage for the better part of a year, subjecting it to nightly riots and wide scale destruction.


	The most dramatic confrontation between Patriot Prayer and the left occurred on August 29, 2020 when a miles-long caravan of what the media termed “far right activists” entered Portland to confront BLM and Antifa thugs who were destroying downtown Portland. During that melee, Antifa activist Michael Reinoehl shot and killed Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a caravan participant.&nbsp; Reinoehl was later shot and killed by Portland police when he drew a gun while resisting arrest.&nbsp;


	Portland, the first U.S. city to lose its mind after the death of George Floyd, became the protest-riot role model for other cities across the nation. &nbsp;Prior to the Floyd riots there had been lighter skirmishes (and talk of skirmishes) in Portland between Patriot Prayer groups and left wing protesters &nbsp;that “frightened the city, frustrated downtown business owners and seemed to baffle the mayor—who tried repeatedly to bar Gibson's group from gathering.”


	“The mayor did nothing to create these protests, but he seems ill-equipped to address them,” the newspaper cautioned in 2017.


	This may have had something to do with Portland’s so called “polite political way,” or its more or less relaxed attitude of letting “everything be” until the Apocalyptic 11th hour.


	The period after Danielson’s murder was perhaps the darkest time for Wheeler. That’s when he found himself in the murky mist of a Faustian bargain he had made with leftists. He felt an obligation to coddle them and not go out of his way to offend them. Many Democratic mayors across the nation behaved in a similar manner but none gave them as much leeway as Wheeler. &nbsp;&nbsp;


	Portland is politically ‘woke’ in the extreme. One only has to check the city’s website, especially Meet the Mayor’s Team, to get a sense of the orthodoxy. Under each staff member’s name you’ll find a list of their preferred pronouns. Ironically, out of the entire staff of 22, only one staffer deviates from traditional gender roles, listing themselves as &nbsp;they/them/theirs, suggesting that the rule for the whole was made for the sake of one. &nbsp;A few staff members, however, in a display of common sense, ignore the pronoun category altogether by allowing only their names to indicate their biological gender.


	"There was the hope he [Wheeler] would be the grown-up in the room," Jim Pasero, a conservative political consultant, told the Willamette in&nbsp; 2018. "I think he strategically, when he got elected, decided to take a deep dive into the progressive end of the pool. But he is an MBA and a state treasurer, so I'm not sure it was a natural fit for him."


	As mayor, Wheeler kept police from shutting down an Antifa blockade of federal immigration officers. He ignored the exponential growth of homeless camps throughout the city. Portland Downtown Clean &amp; Safe, the city’s 7-day a week cleaning crew, reported that in Wheeler’s second year as mayor 39,000 hypodermic needles were picked up throughout the city, a marked increase from previous years. As a mayoral candidate, Wheeler promised a tenant’s bill of rights, radical police reform that included the “demilitarization” of the department and the addition of body cameras on officers. &nbsp;Wheeler’s ambitious leftist “marathon” also included plans to provide bed shelters for every homeless person in the city (Wheeler would later insist that he never meant that every homeless person would be sheltered.) &nbsp;


	When running for mayor, Wheeler wanted very much to win the hearts and minds of the city’s progressive community.


	By October 2020, after the brunt of the George Floyd riots kept Portland burning for weeks, the National Police Association headlined a story: “Ted Wheeler Never Lets an Opportunity Pass to Put Portland in Danger.” For five days during the worst of the riots the mayor was absolutely silent. Then, in September 2020, when the U’S. Marshals Service deputized members of the Oregon State Police, in effect allowing them to charge rioters with arrest under the federal imprint ( guaranteeing stiffer penalties), yet Multnomah District Attorney Mike Schmidt refused to prosecute rioters. Wheeler, rather than raise a voice in protest, kept silent. What had been the proper legal course of action in US cities when it came to convicting rioters was now discarded like Wheeler’s old running shoes because George Floyd riots were somehow different. The latest activist slogan said it all: &nbsp;“No justice, no peace.”


	While Wheeler condemned the violence in Portland during the worst of the riots, his words of condemnation never translated into action. Each condemnation, in fact, seemed to spew another cycle of burnings and lawlessness, so that many began to ask: &nbsp;What is Ted Wheeler waiting for? Wheeler was waiting for the crisis to pass, for the Antifa, BLM and the dressed- in- black Ninja gas mask wearing street thugs to grow bored and go home, even though it seemed like they were winning the race.


	In his naiveté, Wheeler did not realize (or want to admit) that Left Progressive movements tend to become more radical as time goes by and then, like a dog eating its own tail, turn back on those followers who don’t “catch up” in a cannibalistic frenzy. &nbsp;Wheeler suddenly felt himself caught in the backlash.


	In June 2021 The New York Times ran a story—“After Nearly a Year of Unrest, Portland Leaders Peruse a Crackdown”-- about a Portland resident who toured the city everyday in tears at what the rioters had destroyed. The article told the story of how the Oregon Historical Society had its windows smashed two times by rioters who then wrote “No More History” on the building’s walls.


	“Portland was a beautiful city,” said Ms. Carter, who was the first Black woman elected to the Oregon Legislative Assembly and is now retired. “Now you walk around and see all the graffiti, buildings being boarded up. I get sick to my stomach. And I get angry.”&nbsp; (New York Times)


	An Antifa-sympathizing activist community group responded to the concern over the Oregon Historical Society by saying how the activists (rioters) “were intent on saving lives, while city leaders are focused on saving windows.” &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	In August 2020, Mayor Wheeler, had finally fed up with the daily violence and burnings, gave a televised speech imploring the leftist rioters in the city to take stock of their actions.


	“Many of the residents of our mostly white city,” he said, “have exercised their free speech rights to peacefully protest structural racism in a way that makes me proud to be a Portlander, but these crises have also created an opening for violent extremists, to do harm to our city, to scare our downtown employers late at night, to reek havoc in any effort to drain city resources, not in an effort to reinvest them….Rising up to destroy structural racism is a noble cause, pulling people from their vehicles and beating them in the streets is a horrific violent crime…” &nbsp;


	Wheeler called on all city residents to start talking about ending the violence, to “virtually link arms” while remembering that “We can do better.” This oatmeal milquetoast plea, however, did not win the heart of rioters. His admission that, “I take personal responsibility for not being here earlier, not finding ways to address these important issues,” is an ‘oft repeated political form of address and apology, a kind of Pepto bismol cure all to make sure you still stay in the public’s good graces.


	It was, as they say, a “Kumbaya” moment and coming long after the horses had already left the stable, but not long before the mayor himself would begin to be a target for the cannibalistically-inclined street lefties. &nbsp;The mayor’s television address also put into perspective his first worry when he took office in 2017: that an obscure right wing group called Prayer Patriots posed an extremely dangerous threat for the city, a laughable comparison that today seems very close to insane.


	Once the mania for rioting and burning takes hold, it’s there for the long haul.&nbsp; Portland’s violent protests continued long after the George Floyd protests in other cities died out, and despite the mayor’s having committed $12 million to Black and Brown communities, previously slated for the police department. “I’m also directing all City bureaus in my portfolio to develop strategies to better serve Black communities,” the mayor is quoted as saying on the city’s Racial Justice site.


	Wheeler has been confronted several times in restaurants by disgruntled leftists. Eater magazine reported that while dining out at a Northwest Bamboo Sushi location, he was accosted by a protestor shouting, “You gas children in their homes,” a reference to Portland police using tear gas on Black Lives Matter protesters. One time the mayor was forced to pepper-spray a stranger when the latter insisted he was violating social distancing rules. In January 2021 a group of protesters interrupted the mayor’s meal at Café Nell.


	The Oregonian in June 2021 reported on a Total Recall campaign organized by activists who fault the mayor for the city’s “police response during months of racial justice protests.” (The city’s police response, if anything, was too little too late.) The newspaper quoted Athul Acharya, a civil rights attorney with the ACLU of Oregon, who stated: “Portlanders deserve better than a mayor who spent the summer tear-gassing his own residents.”


	The mayor has also had to deal with leftists who have smashed windows and set fires inside his condo building.


	But isn’t this what you get when you make a Faustian deal with the left?


	Wheeler, who was re-elected for another term in November 2020, describes the people attacking him and engaging in criminal destruction as “middle-age to young white men…who should be arrested, investigated and prosecuted.”


	“They want to burn, they want to bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” the Washington Post reported Wheeler saying in April 2021. ‘Our job is to unmask them, arrest them and prosecute them,’ he said, asking the public to contact the police and provide them with information about the rioters, write down their license plate numbers or film them when they commit acts of vandalism.”


	Sadly, Ted Wheeler’s epiphany has come too late.


	“Wheeler, the über-progressive, who made a national reputation last year by apologizing for vandals and rioters he said were merely exercising their right to protest against an unjust America. Now he’s had an epiphany, after his indulgence has made parts of Portland a battle zone, The Wall Street Journal reported in April 2021.


	Is a racist mayor still a racist mayor even after he sees the light?


	Other Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Ted Wheeler

Editor's note: This is the 12th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Racist Mayor: Nikuyah Walker

Editor's note: This is the 11th part in Frontpage Mag's series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the 10th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	If you want to be thorough about the matter, of course, you can’t talk about the ongoing destruction of the city of Minneapolis under the auspices of its callow, hapless young mayor, Jacob Frey – aptly <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/07/oh-grow-up-mayor-frey-devine/">described</a> by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine as a “soy boy,” a “man-child,” and a “half-price Justin Trudeau” (they’re both cute in the same doe-eyed, dumb-looking way) – without also taking into account the pernicious contributions of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whose mantra, since the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, has been “systemic racism”; Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who, with breathtaking mendacity, blamed last year’s Antifa and BLM mayhem on “white supremacists”; the state’s Hamas-linked, Jew-hating Attorney General Keith Ellison, a serial girlfriend abuser and longtime Farrakhan acolyte who boasts continually of his efforts toward “social transformation”; and radical-left City Council President Lisa Bender, who, when challenged (by CNN, no less!) on her ridiculous call for “a future without police,” dismissed public concerns about armed home burglaries as coming from “a place of privilege.”


	But although each of these reprehensible characters has played a significant role in Minneapolis’s current tragedy, Frey, who turns forty in July, is without question the star of the show. His big moment came on June 6 of last year, when, in what Devine characterized as “a scene reminiscent of a Maoist struggle session,” the masked, t-shirted mayor inanely confessed to a restive crowd of black radicals that he was “coming to grips with my own brokenness.” Yet even this wince-inducing display of abject contrition wasn’t enough for them: when he told them he wouldn’t defund the police (although, as he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-walk-of-shame.html">assured</a> the New York Times, he believes fervently in “deep structural reform of a racist system”), they jeered at him, and Frey, looking for all the world like a teenager being sent to bed without dinner by his parents, meekly obeyed the rabble’s command to go home. Did it count for nothing with this mob that two days earlier, in an almost equally pathetic tableau, Frey had abased himself at a memorial service for George Floyd, sobbing hysterically for over a minute, his entire body trembling and heaving, as he knelt by the creep’s casket? Or did the June 6 horde, having observed this embarrassing spectacle, figure that if this wuss could be brought so low, so fast, so easily, then perhaps, with just a little more humiliation, he might not only shutter the police department but offer to put every last cop in front of a firing squad?


	These scenes of well-nigh unprecedented public debasement, as it happens, came after several days during which Frey, not previously known for a preoccupation with race relations, privately strove, in the wake of Floyd’s demise, to play catch-up, holding mawkish phone calls with black staffers and colleagues and activists and clergy, attending what the Star-Tribune <a href="https://www.startribune.com/mayor-frey-asks-black-community-for-help-after-floyd-killing-unrest/572195522/">called</a> a “listening session hosted by Black media outlets,” reading a book about “the long-lasting psychological damage of racism,” and essentially apologizing for his whiteness to pretty much everyone in town with a melanin count higher than his own. So eager was he to ingratiate himself with the canaille - justice be damned - that before the verdict came in at the Derek Chauvin trial, he declared, disgracefully: “Regardless of the decision made by the jury, there is one true reality, which is that George Floyd was killed at the hands of police.” And this in a burg that was once famous mainly for being safe, clean, and dull – identified in the American mind with wholesome Seventies sitcom heroine Mary Richards and with the hard-working, law-abiding Scandinavian-Americans who called it home.


	Indeed, while racial unrest is old news in places like Baltimore, Detroit, St.Louis, and Los Angeles, it’s new to Minneapolis – and to Minnesota generally, where, as Powerline’s John Hinderaker <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/05/minnesota-honors-george-floyd.php">noted</a> recently, the “population was barely 1 percent African-American” until 1980 or so; in the decades since, the growth in the non-white population has been the result mostly of mass welfare migration and a tsunami of Somali refugees. If black people consider Minneapolis a white-supremacist hellhole, they sure have an odd way of showing it. Yet Frey would have you believe that his city has for generations been a locus of world-class tensions between oppressive whites and tyrannized blacks, that the Chauvin trial was part of a “global reckoning” after “centuries-long inequities and racial injustice.” And what was Frey’s own contribution to this momentous “reckoning”? Unforgivably, and to what we may hope will be his everlasting infamy, he decided to let criminal gangs run riot in the streets, laying waste to homes, banks, stores, libraries; faced with a decision either to send in the police to protect lives and property or to virtue signal by caving to a barbaric mob, he chose the latter, even instructing police to abandon a precinct house to the mindless jackals. After all, Frey pronounced, the havoc wrought by black rioters was the result of “400 years” of “built-up anger and sadness” and was thus “not only understandable” but “right.”


	Among the victims of all this “understandable” violence have been several black Minneapolis children. On April 30 of this year, Ladavionne Garrett Jr., 10, was shot in the head in his parents’ car; he had brain surgery and slipped into a coma, but so far has managed to cling to life. On May 15, Trinity Ottoson-Smith, 9, was struck by a stray bullet at a birthday party and rushed to a hospital by police; when she died twelve days later, Frey tweeted tritely: “No parent should ever have to say goodbye to their child.” On May 17, Aniya Allen, 6, was shot by a stray bullet while eating a Happy Meal in a car outside her home; when she died two days later, Frey tweeted: “Aniya’s life mattered. Ladavionne and Trinity’s lives matter. We owe it to them and their families to help get answers.” Answers? The answers were obvious. Savages given carte blanche by Frey to go on shooting rampages had slaughtered innocent children. In all likelihood, these savages were black males – career criminals, probably, like Floyd, whom Frey had mourned so ostentatiously. But Frey, naturally, made no mention of this detail. (Nor, when he lamented, on March 17, the growing number of assaults on Asian-Americans, did he acknowledge that most of the perpetrators were black, and that these assaults were simply part of an overall rise in black crime; instead, he attributed them to “[h]ateful rhetoric,” presumably by white racists.)


	The deaths of Trinity and Aniya, and the ordeal of Ladavionne, taught Frey nothing. His tweets about them came off as perfunctory. Only when white cops kill black hooligans does he seem to break out the Kleenex. This was demonstrated on April 11, when a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center killed Daunte Wright, a black man resisting arrest on a weapons warrant; it was demonstrated again on June 3, when another black man, Winston Boogie Smith (was his mother an Orwell fan?), died during an exchange of gunfire with U.S. Marshals trying to arrest him for murder. Like Floyd’s death, but not those of Ladavionne or Trinity or Aniya, the deaths of Wright and Smith sparked new rounds of civil unrest in the Twin Cities – and more tearful hand-wringing by the reflexively repentant boy mayor: “The anguish in Katie Wright’s voice after losing her son echoes in my mind and across our entire state this morning….Minneapolis stands firmly with the people of Brooklyn Center in seeking justice for Daunte Wright and peace in our cities.”&nbsp;


	Even when he isn’t weeping convulsively over dead hoodlums, Frey engages in an over-the-top brand of racial pandering that self-respecting black Minneapolitans must surely find condescending. Every time he stands at a lectern (invariably coming off like a kid who’s been cast as a mayor in a school play), he repeats the same absurd hyperbole about the “400 years of injustice” that are now hitting the black community “like a tidal wave”; about how he’s “building a new and inclusive community as we speak”; about the urgent need to transform the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, where Floyd died, into a “permanent memorial to George Floyd and everything that he stood for [!] in his life”; and about how the black citizens of Minneapolis should henceforth be the “key beneficiaries” of municipal largesse. Post-Floyd, pretty much every issue, in Frey’s anything-but-colorblind mind, seems to have become tinged with race: for example, he recently applauded a push in the Minnesota statehouse to legalize recreational pot use as an “encouraging step for racial justice.” You can’t make this stuff up.


	As much as he’s genuflected toward blacks, moreover, Frey hasn’t neglected to fawn impressively over other non-whites. On April 12 (two days after tweeting that a newly opened Muslim eatery offered “the best goat I’ve ever had”), he bragged about having “granted a noise permit to Dar Al-Hijrah for Cedar-Riverside to broadcast the call to prayer for the holy month of Ramadan”; on May 13, he tweeted: “As this Holy Month comes to a close, I’m wishing all our Muslim friends and neighbors who observed Ramadan a happy and healthy Eid al-Fitr.” Note that while Frey, a Reform Jew, twice referred to Ramadan as “holy,” he failed, last fall, to tweet so much as a word about Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. As for the two major Christian holidays in 2020-21, he contented himself with a brief, breezy “Merry Christmas to those celebrating” and “Happy Easter, Minneapolis.” And this man who called Ramadan “holy” made no mention of God in his Thanksgiving tweet (“Our family couldn’t be more grateful for the frontline workers, healthcare heroes,” etc.), which, in any case, was considerably less enthusiastic than his tweet, a week later, about Native American Heritage Day: “Love seeing Indigenous voices lifted up &amp; celebrated….Leaders like Autumn Dillie [of the American Indian Community Development Association] are working year round to make MPLS a better place.”


	And, alas, his actions match his contemptible words. Repeatedly, he’s given the thumbs-up to special treatment for blacks at the expense of whites. In February he touted the Minneapolis Climate Action and Racial Equity Fund, which, in the name of pursuing an “inclusive” approach to climate change, distributes public funds exclusively to BIPOC- and immigrant-owned businesses; in March he promoted another initiative, this one administered by the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, that also enriches only black firms. The goal of Minneapolis’s post-COVID recovery, he explains, “has never been to return to the way things were. A more equitable economy means specifically lifting Black businesses.” Some might decry this policy as blatantly racist; but Frey calls it “inclusive recovery and transformation,” boasting that “equity has been the driving force behind allocating the limited funding we have.” Yes, not equality but equity – meaning systematic discrimination to address “systemic racism.” For if your city is emerging from a pandemic-induced economic crisis that was made even worse by a concomitant epidemic of black vandalism, arson, and looting, how to handle the recovery justly other than by throwing money at blacks and freezing out whites? On Martin Luther King Day, Frey proclaimed that he was “in awe of [King’s] legacy of championing meaningful change”; but virtually everything that this nincompoop has said and done during the last year has been utterly, and dangerously, at odds with King’s noble proposition that it’s character - not skin color - that counts.&nbsp;


	Other Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Jacob Frey

Editor's note: This is the 10th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the 9th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	On June 12, 2020, the <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fus%2Fsegregated-diversity-training-session-at-seattle-city-hall-stirs-controversy%2Far-BB16yCUd&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863190444%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=GEfycTT8fi2355k%2Bcpb3nhMAI2uwkFlXOB%2BJGZ%2Bxdvo%3D&amp;reserved=0">city of Seattle held an online training session on racial bias</a>, entitled “Internalized Racial Superiority,” to which only "city employees who identify as white” were invited to participate. The city of Seattle also offered a separate training class for "city employees who identify as a person of color."


	On the same day the online whites-only training session was held, Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan declared that the infamous Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone occupation outside the Seattle Police Department's abandoned East Precinct, organized by Black Lives Matter activists, “could be a summer of love.” Durkan took about ten days to begin bringing the occupation to an end, when she finally realized that her fantasy of “a summer of love” was turning into the reality of nights of violence. Yet Durkan did not budge in defending her city’s racially segregated training.


	Durkan attacked the Trump administration for raising concerns that the segregated training was potentially a violation of federal civil rights laws. She claimed that separating training sessions for city employees by race was somehow anti-racist. “In the midst of a nationwide reckoning with systemic racism and police violence, (the administration) is considering suing the City of Seattle for a training we provide that specifically seeks to combat racism and advance equity," <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fnews%2Fbest-states%2Fwashington%2Farticles%2F2020-09-06%2Fjustice-department-questions-seattle-racial-justice-training&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863200438%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=EAr5tbW9qMJrYwxWAqxVpWaMlgAVqOTSJjN%2FhY%2FjYxo%3D&amp;reserved=0">Durkan said</a>.


	The content of the training materials that Durkan defended did not combat racism. They did the opposite. They exacerbated racial division.


	The e-mail inviting "city employees who identify as white” to their own separate training session said, “We’ll examine our complicity in the system of white supremacy . . . and begin to cultivate practices that enable us to interrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)."


	The separate training session for "city employees who identify as a person of color" was focused on how "American conditioning, socialization and history leads People of Color to internalize radicalized beliefs, ideas and behaviors about themselves, under girding the power of White Supremacy."


	<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchristopherrufo.com%2Finterrupting-whiteness%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863200438%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=y4G%2F7chlzRWNkDOg%2BCo9SgPfzXxTgg0sjZAGvTQGlog%3D&amp;reserved=0">The training material categorized whites and people of color</a> into two separate amalgams of personality characteristics that members of each race have supposedly internalized solely because of their respective races. Whites have internalized a set of personality characteristics from their standpoint of privilege that feed their sense of racial superiority, according to this exercise in critical race theory. By the same token, people of color, especially blacks, have internalized a separate set of personality characteristics from their standpoint of alleged dehumanization that feed their sense of racial inferiority.


	For example, one of the powerpoints used for a city employee training session was entitled “Internalized Racial Oppression.” Individualism was among the twelve racial attributes listed under a column labeled "Internalized Racial Superiority.” Employees in Mayor Durkan’s City Hall were being indoctrinated to believe that wanting to be free to express one’s individualism, a core value in America’s founding documents, is one of the defining characteristics of a white supremacist. Other racial characteristics listed in the racial superiority column include perfectionism, arrogance, silence, intellectualism, control, and comfort. Violence is also listed in the “Internalized Racial Superiority” column.


	Another column in the powerpoint is labeled “Internal Racial Inferiority.” Evidently, according to the racists who developed this training material, people of color – not whites - have internalized addictive personalities, as well as feelings connoting an inferiority complex such as shame, self-doubt, self-hate, and apathy. Rage is also listed in the “Internal Racial Inferiority” column.&nbsp;


	But wait - there may be some hope for white persons who follow the training materials’ path of redemption. Whites are instructed how to interrupt their “whiteness.” They must first come to understand their “complicity in racism” and then take on the responsibility to serve as “social justice advocates and organizers.”&nbsp; This includes bringing other unenlightened white people “into racial justice.”


	Seattle is engaged in an ideological battle against what its political leaders see as the systemic effects of white supremacism. This battle is being fought under Mayor Durkan’s leadership throughout the city’s bureaucracy. And Durkan has a plan to begin undoing the accumulated harms allegedly suffered by blacks especially, for which whites as a race are collectively guilty according to Durkan and other leftwing progressive racists.


	Durkan wrote <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsouthseattleemerald.com%2F2020%2F09%2F25%2Fopinion-my-community-led-100-million-plan-for-bipoc-communities%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863210432%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2FRmJoDN9DYSs6ebrJxJZWeQMtmoCcK4msUWCvjg7hHA%3D&amp;reserved=0">an article published by the South Seattle Emerald on September 25, 2020</a> in which she described her plan to use taxpayers’ money for multimillion dollar investments solely to benefit black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). Durkan concluded her article by declaring that “We can show the country what it means to invest in Black Lives Matter and embark on something big together.” There’s nothing like investing taxpayers’ hard-earned money in a <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontpagemag.com%2Ffpm%2F2020%2F09%2Fblm-pamphlet-john-perazzo%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2uIl0ya3YT5X2Iiatqp_PXcLbuHd_uw3r9nf7B4GjqUbfN5q5QeLbuq_I%23.X1YBv6-E8pY.twitter&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863220428%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=RmHBuKARdNLhiQ6FZOGitGIS%2F%2Biwvr04cCrrxUIyKSs%3D&amp;reserved=0">Marxist, anti-nuclear family, racist hate movement</a>, led by people who have spent donors' money on their own personal luxuries.


	Mayor Durkan’s original $100 million proposal was cut to $30 million by the Seattle City Council. Working with this special reserve designated solely for black, indigenous and people of color communities, Durkan convened the Equitable Communities Initiative Task Force last October for the purpose of recommending how to make exclusive investments in these communities. On June 3, 2021, after a series of meetings closed to the public, the task force submitted its investment recommendations to Durkan “to build an equitable society.”


	Undoing past discrimination and its lingering effects by excluding whites today from publicly funded benefits because of the color of their skin is racist. Some of the money used to fund Seattle’s BIPOC community investment programs is being taken from other city departments working on behalf of all Seattle residents, including millions of dollars from the Seattle Police Department.


	Seattle experienced a dramatic <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Flocal%2Fseattlenews%2Farticle%2F2020-crime-Seattle-highest-homicide-rate-15864266.php&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863220428%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=LkGJupXHbluzgtRxQy9ryzGKiCskv%2BSTANe471aF1Hw%3D&amp;reserved=0">increase in homicides during 2020</a> – its highest in 26 years. Seattle has one of the highest crime rates overall in the country. It is reportedly <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.neighborhoodscout.com%2Fwa%2Fseattle%2Fcrime&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863230424%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=nNNP%2BWEqCJDFjJ%2B%2BdSTPkyPRFaNfcRH3%2Be8Wrlc%2BZfo%3D&amp;reserved=0">safer than only 4% of U.S. cities</a>. To her credit, Mayor Durkan did not want to go as far as the more radical City Council in seeking to defund the Seattle Police Department. However, she did issue an <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdurkan.seattle.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F9%2F2020%2F10%2FExecutive-Order-2020-10-Reimagining-Policing-and-Community-Safety-in-Seattle.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce5fa7e869c8a4e3dce4308d93101fc94%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637594706863230424%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2BIkG%2F3l%2BUdmK%2F0viem04OBFKzBIwsoxF9rimu0lwM80%3D&amp;reserved=0">executive order</a> in 2020 “ordering City departments to support the citywide, community-led process to reimagine policing and community safety by centering the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities.” Durkan has accused the police department of “police violence” and has irresponsibly restrained the police’s ability to stop the real violence in the streets.


	Seattle is yet another city run into the ground by a far-left progressive mayor. Mayor Durkan has put critical race theory ideology above her responsibility to manage her city for the benefit of all the people of Seattle. Durkan has decided not to run for re-election. The bad news is that the next mayor of Seattle is likely to be an even more extreme leftwing progressive racist who wants to dismantle the Seattle Police Department and expand the racialized community investment programs.


	<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/34166194@N00/37597705084/">Photo credit: Sage Ross 
	 
	*</a> 
	 
	Other Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Jenny Durkan

Editor's note: This is the 9th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the 8th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba ran for office promising to make Jackson, Mississippi, "the most radical city on the planet." The son of a radical father who had declared himself a leader in the Republic of New Afrika, a separatist black nationalist breakaway country located in Mississippi and four other states, Lumumba was eminently qualified for the job of radicalizing Jackson.


	Even Lumumba’s last name came from Patrice Lumumba: a Communist black nationalist.


	The Republic of New Afrika, a racist secessionist black supremacist terrorist group, had not had much luck getting Mississippi or even Brownsville, Brooklyn to secede from the Union, but Chokwe Lumumba Sr. finally managed to get elected mayor of Jackson. That was some years after the RNA’s plan to begin its secessionist racial republic in Jackson collapsed after a shootout that killed a local police officer and sent the president of the new republic to prison.


	But not before the founders of the RNA “fell to the ground in such profound joy that they began to eat the dirt.”


	After being elected, Lumumba Sr. kept using the RNA’s “Free the Land” slogan. But who was it being freed from? The remaining white people were fleeing Jackson by the thousands. Lumumba and the elderly figures in the RNA kept planning some sort of socialist cooperative economy, but a year after being elected he died of a bad cold, and his supporters claimed he had been murdered. Three years later, Chokwe Antar Lumumba took his father’s place vowing to transform the capital of Mississippi and its 160,000 citizens: down 13,000 from a decade ago.


	"I plan to make Jackson, Mississippi the most radical city on the planet," Chokwe Antar Lumumba told a cheering crowd while his supporters chanted, “Free the land!”


	“By any means necessary,” Mayor Lumumba responded with RNA’s secessionist slogan, and concluded his speech with Karl Marx’s quote, “We have nothing to lose but our chains.”


	But it would turn out that people in Jackson had plenty to lose.


	A few months ago, the water went out in the city for a month after a winter storm wrecked the decaying infrastructure.


	Mayor Lumumba blamed it on white people. “I do think that if we're being honest, it's a matter of race.”


	Except that black Democrat mayors have run Jackson for the last 25 years. The city had been repeatedly warned that its water system was going bad, that it wasn’t being maintained, and that there was no money because residents weren’t paying their water bills. While Mayor Lumumba was chanting black power slogans and pushing socialist pipe dreams, the basic infrastructure of pipes that made life possible was coming apart on the land he claimed to love so much.


	While people spent weeks hauling water in buckets to flush their toilets and boiling water when they did have it, the media turned on the outrage and blamed racism, but no one asked the socialist black nationalist mayor why he let it happen. Or why he kept promising radical change for years while pregnant women and children were told not to drink the water in Jackson.


	The year before Mayor Lumumba took office, high lead levels became the new normal. Last year, the EPA was warning local residents that the water wasn’t safe to drink. But Lumumba kept busy denouncing the state flag, touting socialism, and rolling out an experimental welfare “guaranteed income” program mailing out thousand dollar checks to housing project residents.


	Meanwhile the water treatment facilities were only being staffed at 50%.


	While Lumumba was planning a socialist makeover for the city, the actual civic infrastructure was being neglected because it was much less glamorous than socialist cooperatives.


	Elsewhere things weren’t going any better.


	Murders had shot up 50% from 2019 to 2020 leading to the <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2021/01/01/jackson-closes-out-with-most-homicides-city-history-higher-rate-killings-than-new-orleans-memphis/">deadliest year</a> on record. The most radical city on the planet also had one of the highest murder rates in the country.


	A local news station reported that someone was being shot or killed on average <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2021/01/01/jackson-closes-out-with-most-homicides-city-history-higher-rate-killings-than-new-orleans-memphis/">every</a> 31 hours.


	The victims and their families hadn’t lost their chains, they had lost their lives.


	When the BLM race riots began, Mayor Lumumba declared, "we must dismantle the systems that have historically oppressed us." What exactly these systems were was left unsaid since black Democrats had been running Jackson for a generation, but Lumumba insisted that they were “still grappling with the trauma of hundreds of years of systematic oppression."


	But in a more recent episode of systemic oppression, two dozen of the city's officers sued him for discriminating against them based on their race, gender, and sexual orientation.


	The plaintiffs<a href="https://www.wjtv.com/news/21-current-and-former-jackson-police-officers-are-suing-the-city-chief-and-mayor/"> included</a> 5 white police officers.


	The lawsuit claimed that Mayor Lumumba had used $200,000 from the police budget for four bodyguards and an SUV motorcade. Sometimes “systemic oppression” is a necessity.


	Last month, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/homicide-mississippi-jackson-crime-347d80f7b74d7de643859efa5f15e799">6 people </a>were killed in 24 hours in Jackson.


	The Republic of New Afrika is really taking off. But the killing sprees, the collapse of the water system, and most of Lumumba’s plans haven’t stopped him from winning a second term.


	The black nationalist activist has the backing of the Rockefeller Foundation and various other lefty foundations. He’s been touted by Senator Bernie Sanders and The Nation. And so he won 13,160 votes in an election in which barely a tenth of the city even bothered to vote.


	Fewer people bothered to turn out for the general election than the Democrat primary.


	And&nbsp;so the hallway to the mayor's office with the portrait of Communist Patrice Lumumba will remain the way it is. So will the rest of the dysfunction in the Republic of New Afrika.


	"America is infected with a disease and that disease is called racism," Mayor Lumumba, the son of a black nationalist who served as a public official in a secessionist racist state, told MSNBC. “The idea of 'Make America Great Again', we don't see a country that has gone wrong, in my opinion we see a country that has never been right."


	America’s got some problems, but the Republic of New Afrika has much bigger ones. And Mayor Lumumba hasn’t had much luck trying to make the Republic of New Afrika Great Again.


	Jackson isn’t just leading in the number of murders or the undrinkable water. It’s also ranked as the <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2020/01/16/cdc-jackson-ranked-nd-highest-city-stds/">second highest </a>city in the country for sexually transmitted diseases. The Lumumbas finally got their Republic of New Afrika and instead of creating a new utopia, it turned out to be another hellhole run by leftist Democrats just like all their other failed cities scarring America.


	America isn’t suffering from racism: Democrats are. Racist Democrats destroy cities and then claim racism. They neglect the most basic services in favor of their ideology and blame racism. They wreck black communities, tout criminals, terrorists, and racial separatists, and then blame racism when the racism is looking right back at them from the broken pipes and bloody streets.


	The “most radical city on the planet” is as infected with racism as with STDs. 
	 
	Other Parts of the Series:


	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Editor's note: This is the 8th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the 7th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	The murder rate in St. Louis, Missouri, which is at a 50-year high, is reportedly the highest in the country. Tishaura Jones, who became St. Louis’s first African American female mayor last April, rejects the notion that it is the individuals who commit the violent crimes who should be held fully responsible for their crimes and serve their sentences in prison.&nbsp; Jones, a radical leftist who has been <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgossipgist.com%2Ftishaura-jones&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444653918%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=MQawQMfQmxqTb9QxEULkKqgEOPGskWzM%2BR12Cn3vrzM%3D&amp;reserved=0">described as a “champion of Black Lives Matter</a>,” believes that society is responsible. She blames “systemic racism” and poverty as the root causes of the rampant crime afflicting her city. The newly elected mayor believes the answers to the crime problem in St. Louis are to cut the police department budget, close a jail, end cash bail, mandate mental health evaluations for police officers, and send social workers in response to 911 calls.


	In one of her first decisions as mayor, Jones proposed an initial $4 million reduction in the St. Louis Police Department budget, including the elimination of 98 officers’ positions from the police force. “More police doesn't prevent crime,” <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-9611691%2FSt-Louis-mayor-cuts-4million-police-budget-eliminates-100-officer-vacancies.html&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444663910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cC%2BRI%2FKchGQAe0bPhw4uGXLuG40I6Pkm5%2Fms9wcSIQ0%3D&amp;reserved=0">Jones asserted</a> last month. Nevertheless, in the typical leftwing hypocrisy of “rules for thee but not for me,” Mayor Jones “doubled the number of police officers on her personal security team,” according to the <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicetribune.com%2Fst-louis-mayor-doubled-police-on-her-security-as-she-defunded-citys-police%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444663910%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2F4299Jb2OUYv2TDJX6U%2F%2FXbeJCFxk9GlcTGgamfcwzw%3D&amp;reserved=0">Police Tribune</a>. While “Jones is beefing up her personal security,” the Police Tribune added, “she doesn’t seem as worried about the security of her voters.”


	Former St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards, an African American, said last year that protesters outraged over police brutality against African Americans are ignoring the main issue involving the loss of black lives to crime. “Black-on-black crime--we run away from it like it doesn't happen," <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.audacy.com%2Fkmox%2Farticles%2Fnews%2Fedwards-blasts-protestors-calls-violent-crime-real-issue&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444673903%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=HnVRQ3WR%2BoeXN8EV76xsIEDkOnLN0dnBWsv31%2Bx7FY8%3D&amp;reserved=0">Edwards said</a>. Jones rejects this premise out of hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that supports Edwards’ statement of fact. Jones' rush to blame a supposedly white-controlled racist system for the crimes rather than the perpetrators themselves - too often blacks killing or maiming other blacks - is racist in itself.


	During her campaign for mayor, Jones <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ftishaura%2Fstatus%2F1371972601527013380&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444673903%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=f08Hq%2FX5KJQdkbZvvje560RdWOFBKDeCbypQyuVZib8%3D&amp;reserved=0">tweeted</a> that she planned on replacing Edwards because “it's time for a new direction. We'll put the public back in public safety, we'll make sure that police aren't the only response when you call 9-1-1, and we'll lead with prevention-first.” Edwards resigned before the April 2021 mayoral election.


	As Matthew Vadum noted in his <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontpagemag.com%2Ffpm%2F2021%2F05%2Fst-louis-mayor-guts-police-matthew-vadum%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444683902%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=8ZMohQxw5vuR8SUo30L%2B9qD9Op4hxUEAxWIuIV%2Bl%2Fig%3D&amp;reserved=0">May 29th FrontPage article</a>, “Jones’s campaign, which focused on ‘progressive’ criminal justice reforms, was unabashedly racist.” For example, Jones proudly <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ftishaura%2Fstatus%2F1377050477095948293&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444683902%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=X%2F3EjpKUq3%2BcDsVYQwZaaoH9G%2B%2BIxyTg640wdsvaMDY%3D&amp;reserved=0">tweeted</a> on March 30th essentially what she had said during her debate with her liberal white female opponent: “A white person doesn’t have to have the ‘talk’ with their children. While I appreciate the role of white allies in this movement of progress, I don’t believe they have the lived experience to lead a majority-minority City right now.”


	Jones racially stereotyped white parents and children as being too “privileged” to bother having a serious “talk” about crime.


	Moreover, in Tishaura Jones’ racially divided world of "oppressors" versus the "oppressed," whites have no business running St. Louis solely because they are of the wrong skin color. Jones reiterated this message during her victory lap as Mayor-Elect. During <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F2104%2F08%2Fnday.06.html&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444693895%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=7rFyFIk5aYqknZ4nmJhbYskJ%2BkZEtoolOkxL37lySiI%3D&amp;reserved=0">a CNN interview on April 8th</a>, Jones said that “what I heard from voters is that they are ready for a black woman to lead this city, that a black woman has lived experiences that others do not.” Jones is a purveyor of racist identity politics.


	This wasn’t Jones’ first run for mayor. “St. Louis is the epicenter of Black Lives Matter,” Jones declared back in 2017 when she ran against and lost to a white female, Lyda Krewson, who chose not to run for re-election in 2021. After winning this time against another white female opponent, Jones spitefully declined to invite Krewson to her April 20th inaugural ceremony – breaking a decades-old tradition.


	Mayor Jones is now busy making St. Louis City Hall the epicenter of Black Lives Matter and its anti-white, far left progressive platform. Jones is also trying to do the same with the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education, filling a vacant seat with a 25-year old pro-Back Lives Matter activist named Alisha Sonnier.


	Sonnier made her mark as a leftwing agitator when she helped lead a student week-long occupation of a portion of Saint Louis University’s campus in 2014. Just seven years later, the young activist ran for a seat on the Board of Education. The only candidate out of ten whom Jones endorsed during the campaign was Sonnier, who lost anyway. Not to worry as far as Jones was concerned. After Jones won her own campaign for mayor, she used her current appointment power to have Sonnier fill a remaining vacant seat on the Board of Education.


	Three weeks prior to the announcement of Sonnier’s appointment to the Board of Education on May 11th, <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FLishaLiberty%2Fstatus%2F1384190577927876609&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444693895%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=I6iXu8uK3%2FERBTP4P86P%2FKkMDKlQABzZgRqEtIyUb9E%3D&amp;reserved=0">Sonnier tweeted</a> “that it’s time we look at how systematic oppression, capitalism &amp; other structural inequities are negatively impacting us all &amp; we’re overdue for systematic changes.”


	Less than two weeks after her appointment, <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FLishaLiberty%2Fstatus%2F1396627671191334914&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444703887%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2F4AqwMXNf5Emlky%2FRpRto5WDWFrxv5nP1MHwl3ZZlSU%3D&amp;reserved=0">Sonnier tweeted</a> enthusiastically about an event she attended where she had the opportunity to discuss “the intersection of white supremacy + class + patriarchy + abortion.” With Sonnier, Mayor Jones’s handpicked leftwing progressive wunderkind on the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education, some radical changes in education may be right around the corner. St. Louis public school teachers and students could soon see the racist, anti-white critical race theory and the New York Times’ historically distorted “1619 Project” become an integral part of the St. Louis public school curriculum.


	Mayor Tishaura Jones blames St. Louis’s out-of-control crime rate on systemic racism and poverty. The police, she believes, are a major part of the problem rather than a key part of the solution. It is estimated that the homicide rate per 100,000 in 2020 was 87.2. If systemic racism and poverty are the long term root causes of crime as Jones and her Black Lives Matter allies claim, how do they explain the much lower homicide rate between 1997 and 2001, when a former African American mayor who had previously served as chief of police was in charge? It's worth looking back for a moment to get some perspective on Jones's racially divisive agenda as the third African American elected mayor in St. Louis.


	During Clarence Harmon’s one term as the second African American elected mayor in St. Louis, the average homicide rate per 100,000 was under 40. Harmon’s predecessor, Freeman R. Bosley Jr., was the first African American elected mayor in St. Louis, whom Harmon defeated in the March 1997 mayoral Democratic primary. During Bosley Jr.’s one term, the homicide rate per 100,000 exceeded 50. After Harmon completed his term and brought the homicide rate down by approximately 20 percent, the rate did not rise above 50 again until 2015.


	Bosley Jr. and Harmon had widely divergent approaches to dealing with crime and race, which first played out when Harmon resigned out of frustration as St. Louis’s police chief in 1995 while Bosley Jr. was mayor. Harmon felt that he was not getting enough support as police chief from Bosley Jr., who tended to look at the police through a racial prism. Harmon decided instead to run in 1997 against Bosley, Jr., who was seeking a second term as mayor.


	During their 1997 primary campaign for mayor against each other, Bosley Jr.’s father, Alderman Freeman Bosley Sr., <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2F723ab2021b3fca169d05e92f043a23c8&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444703887%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=21KR2NFfgg9I%2F0n782G2sdO3jFCHUs%2BOZm3kRwZHOVc%3D&amp;reserved=0">called Harmon</a> a ``rented Negro.″&nbsp; Bosley Jr.’s campaign was built around such racial polarization, casting Harmon as the white establishment candidate. Harmon ran his campaign as a coalition builder seeking racial rapport. ”The best representation is provided for all the people,” <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aei.org%2Farticles%2Fracial-politics-with-a-striking-twist%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1a9511506f54992536208d92b7d1298%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637588638444713890%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Bi91aRqZ2tVByoXvHYf6x4DOYYVxOXUUXz2OZcRvsk0%3D&amp;reserved=0">Harmon said.</a> ”Everybody has to feel included.”


	The voters in St. Louis back then were turned off by the racially tinged rhetoric of Bosley Jr.’s campaign. They felt more confident voting for the law and order candidate with a strong police background and sent Bosley Jr. packing. After Harmon won the general election the next month against two white opponents, he said "I'm ready to start the healing process beginning with this moment, the healing process St. Louis so desperately needs."


	Fast forward to 2021. Tishaura Jones ran a racially charged, anti-police campaign. Rather than seek to heal racial divisions in her city after she won the election, Jones is using her office to widen the racial divide. That’s how leftwing progressive racists roll.&nbsp;


	Other Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed.</a> 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Tishaura Jones

Editor's note: This is the 7th part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Racist Mayor: Jim Kenney

Editor's note: This is the sixth part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the fifth part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	"Yes, I’m the mayor, but I’m a black woman first," Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-dont-get-it-twisted-i-am-the-mayor-but-im-a-black-woman-first/">told</a> a crowd of oppressed folks like millionaire movie star Jamie Foxx at San Francisco's first 'Kneel In'.


	Black Lives Matter, the highest-paid mayor in the country claimed, "is born out of pain. It is born out of racism that we are gonna fight against. It is born out of our struggle, our blood, sweat, and tears."


	Breed knows a lot about racism. Not so much about fighting it.


	During the previous election, a mob of <a href="https://www.sfweekly.com/news/video-storm-of-racist-slurs-halts-jane-kim-rally/">her supporters</a> showed up at an event for an Asian opponent and taunted her as a “skinny-ass rice-eating m_______r.”


	“This is London Breed’s house,” one of them shouted.


	London Breed doesn’t have a house. She lives in an apartment because she knows better than to invest in the real estate bubble of the city that she’s wrecking every day.


	But when an Asian Republican put up a billboard attacking her, there were immediately false accusations of racism. Breed’s spokesman claimed that, “race-baiting like this is divisive, dangerous and shameful, and must be rejected.” The ad had no mention of race.


	“London Breed is counting the money–that’s her paycheck. The mayor makes $350,000 a year while people are dying on the streets–they have to pick their dead bodies up. A mayor getting a big fat raise while people are dying,” Ellen Lee Zhou, the Republican candidate, explained.


	Despite overseeing a city in which people are fleeing or dying, Breed draws the<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/01/why-san-francisco-is-in-trouble--19000-highly-compensated-city-employees-earned-150000-in-pay--perks/?sh=2729aa537693"> biggest salary </a>of any mayor in the country. Combined with benefits, at $452,421, Breed makes a lot more than the mayors of New York and Los Angeles. Another 31 staffers in her office earn <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/01/why-san-francisco-is-in-trouble--19000-highly-compensated-city-employees-earned-150000-in-pay--perks/?sh=2729aa537693">over $200,000</a>.


	Breed had used false accusations of racism as a sword and shield even while her city is dying.


	In the final months of last year, the number of San Franciscans escaping <a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/03/04/covid-economy-bay-area-residents-exit-region-growing-numbers-jobs-tech/">jumped </a>61%. 1,700 students vanished from San Francisco public schools leading to the <a href="https://archive.is/iJHX5">lowest numbers</a> in decades.


	Everyone except the mayor is running away. They’re fleeing filthy streets overrun with crime, junkies, and human waste. Instead of enforcing the law, Breed is proposing to spend $1 billion, part of the money with which California bailed out the city, on subsidizing homelessness.


	San Francisco’s infamous free hotels complete with <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/san-francisco-besieged-homeless-demanding-free-daniel-greenfield/">free drugs and booze</a> made the homeless crisis worse as junkie vagrants began coming from all over the country demanding their free hotels and their free drugs and booze.


	“People are showing up in San Francisco from other places and asking where their hotel room is,” Mayor Breed complained.


	After spending $100 million on $200 a night hotels, the homeless crisis is worse than ever. If you think homelessness is bad when you’re spending hundreds of millions subsidizing it, try spending a cool billion “fighting” it. But that’s nothing. Advocates want to spend $9.3 billion.


	Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.sonomanews.com/article/opinion/california-focus-is-permanent-housing-a-viable-homeless-solution/">70% of homeless</a> in San Francisco were turning down permanent apartments. Homeless advocates blamed the high junkie vagrant rejection rate on the lack of Wi-Fi.


	“Uprooting a Cause of Homelessness - Racism,” a Breed op-ed was headlined. When Breed wasn’t running free hotels for junkies, her op-ed boasted of injecting critical race theory to explain why junkie vagrants were defecating on the streets of San Francisco.


	Breed boasted of “the Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities initiative... to conduct research around the intersection of race and homelessness.”


	And then the black mayor of a city whose patronage system was set up by its former black mayor, Willie Brown, claimed that “colorblind solutions do not work for a problem that is, in many ways, a symptom of the structural racism embedded in the city.”


	If there’s any structural racism in San Francisco, it’s coming from Brown and Breed.


	"Our entire city is suffering now and we all need to do our part to share in that sacrifice,” Breed declared last year.


	There were few sacrifices on show when Breed went partying at the French Laundry.


	After Governor Gavin Newsom was caught violating his own rules at a party at the French Laundry restaurant where dining per person can run between $350 to $850, Breed was caught a day later at the birthday party of the daughter-in-law of a Hong Kong billionaire allied with the Communists who had urged the people of the city to be a “good son” to the Communist regime.


	Both Newsom and Breed are proteges of Willie Brown. As is Kamala Harris.


	To understand San Francisco, you have to understand Brown. The former mayor transformed the city and its political mafia consists of FOWs or Friends of Willie. And friends can be a polite term. Everyone had something to offer Willie and he had something for them.


	London Breed used to <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2018/09/26/california-is-still-living-in-willie-browns-world/">babysit </a>Willie Brown’s kids. Brown moved her through the city’s system of political patronage with internships and appointments. Now Willie’s girl is in the White House, Willie’s boy is in the governor’s mansion, and his babysitter is running the city into the ground.


	Breed borrowed Brown’s habit of blaming any criticism on racism.


	And Brown hasn’t dropped the habit. “There is one problem we have not dealt with in this country and that is race,” the former political boss recently claimed.


	At a speech the city’s black powerbroker who put his former mistress in the White House argued, “Have you ever heard of a black man being arrested for insider trading? Does this mean that the black man has a higher morality? No, but it does mean that the black man was never in a position to be able to commit insider trading,”


	There’s no bigger insider than Willie Brown. No one has heard of him being arrested, but most city reformers still hold out hope for him and his mafia of oppressed political insiders.


	Breed blamed the homeless crisis on “escalating housing costs”. Why are housing costs so high? That’s a question she can take up with Mr. Clean and his sugar daddy.


	Last year, Breed posted that she had come clean about her relationship with Mr. Clean.


	Mr. Clean was her "close, personal friend" <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/06/mohammed-dirty-democrat-charge-cleaning-san-daniel-greenfield/">Mohammed Nuru</a> who had just been busted in a public corruption probe. The <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/06/mohammed-dirty-democrat-charge-cleaning-san-daniel-greenfield/">Nigerian immigrant </a>who claimed to be, “Mr. Clean”, was being paid<a href="https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/03/11/mr_clean_in_san_francisco_was_paid_380000_per_year__it_wasnt_enough_766561.html"> $380,000</a> a year to keep the city clean. And he was<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/06/mohammed-dirty-democrat-charge-cleaning-san-daniel-greenfield/"> failing miserably</a> at this task. Nuru was yet another crooked Brown crony who had funneled money to Breed. That was after he dated her.


	In her post, Breed disclosed “a ‘gift’ of approximately $5,600 from Mohammed Nuru.” She also&nbsp; refused to <a href="https://www.marinatimes.com/2020/02/mayor-london-breeds-legacy/">fire her old boyfriend</a> or disclose his gift until she absolutely had to.


	Willie Brown is <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11849988/nuru-scandal-former-mayor-willie-brown-reflects-on-long-time-allies-charged-by-fbi">funding </a>Nuru’s defense. No doubt out of the goodness of his heart.


	“The complaint alleges corruption pouring into San Francisco from around the world,” the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California warned.


	That’s certainly true considering the case of Walter Wong.


	The immigrant businessman had served as a permit expediter. Getting building permits is a long, miserable, and expensive process in San Francisco. That’s one of the reasons that building housing, including for the homeless, is so expensive in San Francisco.


	The case helped bring down Nuru, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/general-manager-san-francisco-public-utilities-commission-charged-honest-services-wire">Harlan Kelly</a>, Juliet Ellis, Kelly’s girlfriend and Chief Strategy Officer, <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/sf-city-administrator-naomi-kelly-resigns-over-bribery-allegations/">City Administrator Naomi Kelly</a>, Kelly’s wife, and<a href="https://sfbayca.com/2020/07/01/city-implements-changes-to-stave-off-future-public-works-contract-corruption/"> Sandra Zuniga</a>, the head of Breed's Office of Neighborhood Services, and Nuru's current girlfriend.


	The race card that had shielded many of them for so long had finally come due.


	Past accusations against Nuru had been dismissed as racist.


	An effort to get rid of Juliet Ellis in 2014 over conflicts of interest failed when her boyfriend and CNN's Van Jones cried racism.


	"What the good ol' boys did down in the South 50 or 60 years ago," one activist claimed. "We are here today for another black lynching."


	This was the sort of race-baiting San Fran officials used to protect their abuses.


	The collapse of the government of a major city, one whose elites include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House’s Kamala Harris, went mostly ignored by the media.


	The same press that found the time to track down and interview the childhood friends of Republican politicians has shrugged at the top Democrat bureaucratic political class of the city which serves as the source of the party’s funds resigning, being indicted, or pleading guilty.


	And yet what the SF corruption meltdown says about Democrat governance is very important.


	The Wong scandal and the homeless crisis are really the same scandal. When you understand that, you not only understand San Francisco, but the Democrats.


	There is a lot of money for Democrats to be made from making it impossible to build in San Francisco and then from trying to house the homeless. ‘Holistic’ is a popular word in SF and its crises are all holistic. They’re manufactured disasters that make money by wrecking the city.


	And the Democrat machine is making money on both ends of the mess.


	Make it too difficult to build in the city and the price of housing goes through the roof. And then make money expediting permits. Fill the city with homeless in response to a manufactured crisis and there’s a lot of money to be made cleaning their waste and housing them.


	After Proposition 47 legalized shoplifting, neighborhood pharmacies are vanishing from San Francisco. Even the corporate chains <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/05/san-fran-legalized-shoplifting-now-seniors-have-no-daniel-greenfield/">are disappearing</a>. But that’s okay because some sort of badly cobbled together government effort will replace them at a cost of hundreds of millions.


	The politically connected will make money from the holistic synergy of manufactured misery.


	The more Democrats break a city or a state, the more money they make. The party’s political hacks can’t actually fix anything and they don’t bother to try because it’s easier to create the problem, and then break everything even more by way of a fake solution.


	San Francisco, once a prosperous and dynamic city with lots of history and its own culture, is going the way of Detroit, Newark, and hundreds of other urban centers that were pumped and dumped by the Democrat machine which reduced them to subsidized welfare hellholes.


	The permanent state of crisis in San Fran isn’t incompetence: it’s by design.


	Mayor London Breed has survived all the scandals. For now. Her predecessor, Ed Lee, another Brown crony, would probably be indicted in the Wong case if he weren't dead. His predecessor, Gavin Newsom, is fighting to survive a recall. And Newsom's predecessor was Willie Brown.


	San Francisco is a city with some of the most overpaid politicians in the country, with the dirtiest streets, the worst homeless problem, and even worse corruption. And Willie Brown’s babysitter sits atop the rotten pile of greed, abuse, and misery while mugging for every media camera.


	And Breed always plays the pity race card. The most highly paid mayor in the country is still the victim of racism because no one appreciates everything she’s doing to wreck San Francisco.


	“Black leaders get it harder than anyone else,” Breed complained. “If I were a white man who accomplished everything that I’ve already done for this city—over a billion dollars for affordable housing, a thousand new shelter beds—I would be treated way differently than how I’m treated now.”


	But no matter how bad things get, Mayor London Breed is always her own biggest fan, announcing her own grade “Goodness, of course I’d give myself an A, A plus!”


	Other Parts of the Series: 
	 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: London Breed

Editor's note: This is the fifth part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the fourth part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments. 
	 
	Kansas City, like other cities across America, experienced violent riots last year following George Floyd’s death. During the first three nights of so-called “protesting,”&nbsp;&nbsp;businesses were looted and vandalized. Crowds hurled rocks at police and engaged in arson of a police car. The Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) said that a couple of hundred police officers were injured as they tried to restore law and order, including one officer who suffered a lacerated liver. Just days later, however, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and police chief Rick Smith&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://Mayor%2520Quinton%2520Lucas%2520and%2520police%2520chief%2520Rick%2520Smith&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGK3usclZuBJXR3lgztuCg6WtJC3w" href="http://mayor%20quinton%20lucas%20and%20police%20chief%20rick%20smith/" target="_blank">knelt</a>&nbsp;with protesters.


	On June 5, 2020, Black Lives Matter-led protesters converged on City Hall and demanded specific changes within the police department. Mayor Lucas attended the rally. Instead of pledging to root out the few bad apples in the Kansas City Police Department, if any, while defending the vast majority of good cops, Mayor Lucas parroted the Black Lives Matter “systemic racism” mantra. "This ain't about one officer in Kansas City. What is it about? The foundation is rotten, with what we're dealing with," Mayor Lucas said.


	At the end of the rally, as&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kmbc.com/article/mayor-quinton-lucas-signs-list-of-changes-black-lives-matter-leaders-want-to-see-made-in-kansas-city-missouri/32783237&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHP_jn-GdGIT-rEFG7i-lhsM1giow" href="https://www.kmbc.com/article/mayor-quinton-lucas-signs-list-of-changes-black-lives-matter-leaders-want-to-see-made-in-kansas-city-missouri/32783237" target="_blank">reported by KMBC 9</a>, Mayor Lucas proceeded to sign what KMBC 9 described in its headline as a “list of changes Black Lives Matter leaders want to see made in Kansas City.” This is what leftwing&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Racism-David-Horowitz/dp/1594038597&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyjaaR2QbQgmRTjKYfDObiC33cYA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Racism-David-Horowitz/dp/1594038597" target="_blank">progressive racism</a>&nbsp;looks like.


	Last August, Mayor Lucas took the opportunity to display his leftwing progressive racism once again. He demanded that a long-serving white councilwoman and lifetime Kansas City resident,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-city-councilwoman-offers-apology-after-alleged-racist-behavior/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFVoI-vTWGrlloWTG9CUhpV65wnzg" href="https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-city-councilwoman-offers-apology-after-alleged-racist-behavior/" target="_blank">Teresa Loar, take an “implicit bias” training course and apologize</a>&nbsp;following a contentious exchange she engaged in with a black councilwoman, Melissa Robinson. Councilwoman Robinson accused Councilwoman Loar of being a racist. The two had sparred over an issue involving the proposed privatization of animal control, which had nothing to do with race. Moreover, Loar did not say anything that could be fairly characterized as a racial slur. But Robinson, an avid supporter of Black Lives Matter, chose to turn the exchange into a manufactured racial drama, in which Mayor Lucas played his part as the political correctness enforcer against so-called “implicit” racial bias.


	Councilwoman Loar decided to comply with Lucas’s demands to help restore some harmony to the City Council. She took the “implicit bias” training course and apologized. But that wasn’t enough for Robinson. She refused to accept Loar’s apology. Then Robinson and her two white progressive allies on the City Council, who are members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chaired by Loar, set out to stage an apparent coup against Loar’s leadership. They used the race card to attack Loar’s stance on the controversial awarding of an airport contract. Robinson and her two comrades demanded that Mayor Lucas remove Loar as chairwoman of the&nbsp;Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, threatening to boycott committee meetings and prevent a quorum if Mayor Lucas did not comply.


	Lucas decided to remove Loar as chairwoman, at least temporarily, and appointed himself as the interim chairman of the committee. Lucas again played the enforcer role in this second manufactured racial drama staged primarily by&nbsp;Councilwoman Robinson against Loar since&nbsp;August 1, 2019,&nbsp;the date when both Robinson and Lucas assumed their present offices.


	Lucas and Robinson, by the way, teamed up very early during their parallel terms with the adoption of Robinson’s City Council racial equity resolution. It required an assessment of internal policies and procedures that “ensure racial equity is a core element of Kansas City,&nbsp;led by the City Manager, Mayor and Council, in collaboration with the Kansas City Health Department and other relevant parties.”


	In July 2020, shortly before Mayor Lucas ordered Councilwoman Loar to take a special “implicit bias” class as a result of her quarrel with Councilwoman Robinson, Robinson sponsored an “implicit bias” training resolution. It mandated the development and implementation of a plan to provide “implicit bias” training to all Kansas City government employees. Poor Councilwoman Loar became Mayor Lucas’s guinea pig in this leftwing progressive racism exercise.


	Kansas City is reportedly the sixth most-dangerous city in the country, according to FBI statistics. There was a record 178 homicides in 2020 alone. Yet Mayor Lucas has remained all in with the race-obsessed, anti-white, neo-Marxist Black Lives Matter agenda. This agenda includes huge cuts in Kansas City’s police budget as well as more minority community control over police hiring, firing, disciplinary actions, budgets, and policies.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	In May 2021,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-05-20/kansas-city-mayor-and-council-seek-local-control-of-police-budget&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHuXW8o1N5hsHTI6SxxEPm8fUKw7w" href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-05-20/kansas-city-mayor-and-council-seek-local-control-of-police-budget" target="_blank">Kansas City’s leftist leaning City Council jammed through two ordinances</a>&nbsp;based on Mayor Lucas’s plan to reallocate $42 million of the city’s police department budget to something called the “Community Services and Prevention Fund.” These monies are intended to be used for “community engagement, outreach, intervention, and other public services,” instead of real policing to catch dangerous criminals and take them off the streets.


	Lucas’s co-leftist progressive racist, City Councilwoman Melissa Robinson,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-05-22/a-year-after-george-floyds-murder-kansas-city-mayor-quinton-lucas-takes-action-on-police-reform&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHon5emZtSvxfHadmSp3GDs8iTbEw" href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-05-22/a-year-after-george-floyds-murder-kansas-city-mayor-quinton-lucas-takes-action-on-police-reform" target="_blank">heartily endorsed Lucas’s plan</a>. “Imagine if the majority of homicide victims in this city were white,” she tweeted. “Would we be this laissez-faire about holding entities accountable for the role they play in public safety? Would our theory of change be to increase investing with diminishing returns?”


	Lucas is trying to maneuver around the State of Missouri’s control of the Kansas City Police Department under the auspices of the state’s Police Board of Commissioners. The state board consists of the governor’s appointees plus the Kansas City mayor himself. Contrary to Lucas’s attempt to characterize the state board as a continuing legacy of the Jim Crow era, it was reinstated in 1939 after seven years of rampant corruption when Kansas City’s police department was run locally.


	<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/on-radio-to-tout-new-kc-police-budget-change-mayor-says-to-the-opposition-bring/article_ea472af6-bb1d-11eb-b2af-e37fae0a0cf4.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqoKiIDgxHi07KohhBy3ik4eT9dQ" href="https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/on-radio-to-tout-new-kc-police-budget-change-mayor-says-to-the-opposition-bring/article_ea472af6-bb1d-11eb-b2af-e37fae0a0cf4.html" target="_blank">Mayor Lucas defended the police funding reallocation ordinances against the critics by playing the race card</a>. Lucas said that maybe his critics “don't actually want to say that we can trust a---well, I'll just say it---a black mayor, blacks on the city council, progressives on the city council, progressive whites, in terms of what we're looking to do."


	Lucas is right about not trusting progressives, who have managed to mess up every city in the country they have taken charge of. But Lucas displayed his own racism by automatically attributing racism to his opponents who happened to be white. Lucas’s allies in Black Lives Matter KC did the same thing when they&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/BLM_KC/status/1398293676074455043&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhHxjJtCI-brFaJ-uyfOUKD8v5iA" href="https://twitter.com/BLM_KC/status/1398293676074455043" target="_blank">tweeted</a>&nbsp;that the Police Board of Commissioners’ plan to file a lawsuit challenging the reallocation ordinances “garnered huge applause from the&nbsp;lynch mob.” (Emphasis added)


	Republican state lawmakers pushed back against the reckless police department budget reallocation engineered by Mayor Lucas and the City Council, threatening to call a special session of the state legislature to undo it. On June 2, 2021, Lucas joined his fellow radical mayor of St. Louis,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/st-louis-mayor-guts-police-matthew-vadum/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHxoGEDu4NQCoXWM9NHl6wYegzmjA" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/st-louis-mayor-guts-police-matthew-vadum/" target="_blank">Tishaura O. Jones</a>, who had also made cuts to her city’s police department budget, in a letter protesting what they called the legislators’ “grandstanding.”


	The&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/mayor/news/mayor-jones-mayor-lucas-joint-statement-on-special-session.cfm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623196594648000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFDL3uVOmJwmLFwsA-nqy7m0XYjXw" href="https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/mayor/news/mayor-jones-mayor-lucas-joint-statement-on-special-session.cfm" target="_blank">mayors’ joint letter</a>&nbsp;blamed the rising crime rates in their cities on&nbsp;“poverty, lack of mental health services, housing instability, and more,” implying that the lack of adequate funding to combat these social ills was the root cause of violent crime. The two leftwing mayors failed to blame the individuals who have actually committed the crimes. They want to rob law enforcement of the resources needed to stop the criminals in order to fund pie-in-the sky racially preferential social justice programs. “Both of us have committed to visiting each other’s respective cities to speak with those most affected by disinvestment—primarily in traditionally minority neighborhoods,” the mayors wrote.


	Add Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to the growing rogues’ gallery of big-city Democratic mayors consumed by their own brand of modern-day racism. 
	 
	Other Parts of the Series: 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed</a>. 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Quinton Lucas   

Editor's note: This is the fourth part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more

Editor's note: This is the third part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments.


	District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser may have more self-control than other Democrat big-city mayors, yet she still manages to push the same racist Black Lives Matter propaganda that gives aid and comfort to rioters and insurrectionists who hate America.


	Bowser, architect of some of the strictest pandemic lockdown protocols in the nation –she <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/03/dc-mayor-bowser-bans-dancing-at-weddings-its-insane/">banned dancing</a> at D.C. weddings— is generally shrewd enough to avoid in-your-face, overtly racist gaffes like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">announcement&nbsp;</a>that she would only be granting 1-on-1 interviews to black or brown journalists, but the Washington mayor embraces critical race theory and wants to tear down statues of accomplished white people.


	That doesn’t mean she always sees eye-to-eye with the radical activists of Black Lives Matter, but Bowser does her best to get their toxic message of social grievance out.


	Under her leadership, the “defund the police” message that was added to the words “Black Lives Matter” that she had painted on the street in Black Lives Matter Plaza, the stretch of 16th Street Northwest in sight of the front of the White House that was appropriated by radicals, <a href="https://dcist.com/story/20/08/17/dc-defund-police-black-lives-matter-plaza-mural/">disappeared</a> two months after activists painted the phrase.


	She <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/14/muriel-bowser-protests-show-why-dc-statehood-matters/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14">wrote in an op-ed</a> in the Washington Post that she decided to create Black Lives Matter Plaza when she “came face to face with a line of federal police blocking a street in my legal jurisdiction.”&nbsp;


	“Here we were in my hometown, in the capital of the United States of America, with people all around us protesting for change, demanding reforms to the racist and broken systems that killed George Floyd and so many Black Americans before him. But instead of bringing the country together, the federal government was blocking the streets. It was clear the president [i.e. Donald Trump] was doing everything he could to tear us apart.”


	While Black Lives Matter and Antifa ran wild in the nation’s capital last year, Bowser did her best to help the looters.


	In June 2020, as the District was filled with federal troops and federal law enforcement, Bowser <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/politics/dc-mayor-requests-trump-remove-troops/index.html">whined</a> that then-President Trump was doing too much to combat race rioters.


	The mayor wrote Trump a letter claiming that the deployed units were "inflaming" and "adding to the grievances" of the people sacking pricey Georgetown shops to protest the non-police-involved death of career criminal George Floyd.


	"The protestors have been peaceful, and last night, the Metropolitan Police Department did not make a single arrest. Therefore, I am requesting that you withdraw all extraordinary law enforcement and military presence from Washington, DC," the mayor wrote.


	She complained that "unidentified federal personnel patrolling the streets of Washington, DC post both safety and national security risks." Switching into black helicopter mode, Bowser claimed the "additional, unidentified units" were operating "outside of established chains of command" and adding to the confusion by not displaying "identifying insignia."


	In response to the rioting over the death of St. George of Minneapolis, Bowser <a href="https://www.wcax.com/2020/09/02/some-dc-sites-could-be-renamed-removed-following-committee-report/">appointed</a> a woke committee last year to recommend statues of dead white males to tear down and public spaces to be defaced or renamed.


	The committee was tasked with “evaluating named DC Government-owned facilities and making recommendations as to what, if any, actions need to be taken if the namesake is inconsistent with DC values and in some way encouraged the oppression of African Americans and other communities of color or contributed to our long history of systemic racism.”


	Committee co-chairs, Beverly Perry, a senior advisor to the mayor, and Richard Reyes-Gavilan, executive director of the District’s public library system, <a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mayormb/page_content/attachments/DC%20FACES%20Executive%20Summary_r10sm.pdf">said</a> their “decision-making prism focused on key disqualifying histories, including participation in slavery, systemic racism, mistreatment of, or actions that suppressed equality for, persons of color, women and LGBTQ communities and violation of the DC Human Right[s] Act.”


	The library system, by the way, <a href="https://twitter.com/dcpl/status/1358455505111445505">honored</a> communist Angela Y. Davis, calling her “an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited,” which shouldn’t be all that surprising to anyone who has spent time in D.C.


	Among the statues and memorials the committee <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/01/democrat-mayors-committee-proposes-removing-or-shaming-washington-dc-memorials/">wanted removed</a> were those named after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, Francis Scott Key, and William Henry Harrison.


	Unlike many of her colleagues, Bowser does not support defunding the police.


	Last year the D.C. Council <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-council-passes-budget-slashing-millions-from-police/2370322/">passed</a> a budget slashing $15 million from the Metropolitan Police Department over her objections.


	“This reduction would result in a level of sworn officers that has not been seen in DC since the 1990s, with seemingly no analysis on the impact this cut would have on the deployment of officers, officer response times to calls for service, and on community and neighborhood safety," Bowser <a href="https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/bowser-letter-blasts-council-cuts-dc-police-budget">wrote in a letter</a> to the council. "Fewer officers would protect a District population that has increased by more than 17 percent, and where calls for police service have increased by 21 percent in the last decade alone. These reductions will be felt across all eight wards."


	But she’s fine with filling cops’ minds with racist drivel.


	In 2018, Bowser <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-police-to-learn-black-history-as-part-of-new-training-program/2018/04/13/92920070-3f55-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html">forced</a> members of the Metropolitan Police Department to be indoctrinated with critical race theory as part of a training program. “We are committed to accountability to strengthen the bonds of trust between MPD and our residents,” she said in unveiling the woke brainwashing.


	Maybe <a href="https://matthewvadum.com/2018/02/has-dc-police-force-endorsed-blm/">this explains</a> why this writer saw a parked police car in D.C. that had what appeared to be a rolled-up white tee shirt on the dashboard with the word “WOKE” in large letters.


	In February of this year, Bowser <a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-launch-district%E2%80%99s-first-office-racial-equity-search-chief-equity-officer">announced</a> she would create the city’s first Office of Racial Equity.


	“As we continue our recovery into 2021, we have a unique opportunity to double down on our efforts to put racial equity at the forefront and revitalize systems to ensure a more inclusive and prosperous future for all Washingtonians,” said Bowser. “We know that when more Washingtonians are given a fair shot, we are a stronger and more resilient city.”


	The new office “will focus on developing an infrastructure to ensure policy decisions and District programs are evaluated through an equity lens and will be housed in the Office of the City Administrator,” according to a District press release.


	“Only by building systems that are intentional in their design to account for our city’s legacy of racism and discrimination and are targeted to expand access will every District resident truly have the same opportunities to prosper in our society,” said Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie who introduced legislation creating the office.


	Of course every single mayor of Washington, D.C., since the post became popularly elected in 1974 has been a Democrat, so if the District has a legacy of racism and discrimination those 7 left-wing mayors may have had something to do with it.


	And in her mind, Muriel Bowser is paying it forward.


	Other Parts of the Series: 
	Part I: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed</a>. 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Muriel Bowser

Editor's note: This is the third part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. (See previous parts below this article). Stay tuned for more installments

Editor's note: This is the second part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors. See other parts of the series below this article. 


	President Joe Biden is reportedly considering the Democratic Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to India. Garcetti should feel right at home in India, where the huge homeless population will remind him of the homeless crisis in L.A. that has spun out of control under his watch. If Garcetti ends up with the ambassadorship, don’t be surprised if many Angelenos thank Biden for relieving them of their failed leftwing progressive mayor.


	Homicides in Los Angeles rose 38 percent last year, according to Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) statistics, reaching their highest level in over a decade. Homicides have continued to rise in L.A. this year without letup. “Then, as now, the L.A. neighborhoods hardest hit by the violent crime increase were predominantly poor, Black, and Latino,” Jason McGahan reported in Los Angeles Magazine.


	Despite the rising criminal violence besetting his city, which especially hurts people of color, Mayor Garcetti caved to pressure from Black Lives Matter activists. Last year, Garcetti proposed cutting the LAPD budget by approximately $150 million, which was more than half of the total budget cuts he had proposed.


	“Prejudice can never be part of police work,” Garcetti said. “It takes bravery to save lives, too.” This is an insult to the vast majority of good cops who put their lives on the line every single day to serve their communities. Blue lives matter, too.


	Garcetti also endorsed the candidacy of an anti-police white progressive to serve as Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon. With Garcetti’s support, Gascon beat the incumbent, Jackie Lacey, who was the first African American and woman to serve in that position. After Garcetti withdrew his original endorsement of Lacey and switched his allegiance to Gascon, Lacey said that “everybody’s trying to prove that, you know, that they’re not racist. Unfortunately, that’s been translated into ‘Who’s the more progressive candidate? What’s the more progressive stance?’”


	Mayor Garcetti’s final choice for Los Angeles District Attorney pursued radical progressive policies that put criminals’ interests first. Gascon’s “social justice” war against law enforcement ignored the concerns of victims and their families who are disproportionately people of color. Gascon’s policies have endangered the public safety of minority communities most of all. No wonder Gascon is currently facing a recall challenge launched by crime-victim families. The racist impact of Gascon’s criminal-first policies is plain to see. But instead of admitting that he made a mistake in endorsing Gascon over Lacey and deciding to openly support the recall drive, Mayor Garcetti has remained silent.


	David Horowitz, whose Freedom Center publishes Frontpage Magazine, has written a book entitled <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FProgressive-Racism-David-Horowitz%2Fdp%2F1594038597&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac09579459024cb4db2908d926d1464e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637583502530036507%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Q0cP8nmIb%2FFBna8z2RQzvGbUvFjBY47YJJhxl7QbAhk%3D&amp;reserved=0">Progressive Racism</a> in which he described how progressives have turned the original civil rights movement to combat real racism into a racist movement of its own.


	Progressive racism rewards African Americans collectively by granting them race preferences and privileges solely because of the color of their skin. At the same time, progressive racism punishes white Americans collectively for their alleged inherent racism and “white privilege,” again solely because of the color of their skin.


	Mayor Garcetti fits the description of a progressive racist to a tee. “If there's one thing that the demonstrations for racial justice have done,” Garcetti said, “it's to lay bare the urgent and overdue demands and structural racism and to right the wrongs of the past.'' Garcetti’s way of righting the racist wrongs of the past is to commit more racist wrongs in the present.


	In January 2021, <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F01%2F22%2Fl-a-mayor-eric-garcetti-announces-implicit-bias-training-for-all-city-employees%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac09579459024cb4db2908d926d1464e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637583502530046504%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Opcxw%2F4b37db5f3QVVPNJlY6cQlWTK4ZUYbqweG%2FvV0%3D&amp;reserved=0">Mayor Garcetti announced</a> that the City of Los Angeles would require all its employees to undergo “implicit bias” training as part of an effort to achieve “racial justice.” Deputy Mayor Brenda Shockley, whom Garcetti also named as Los Angeles’ first-ever Chief Equity Officer, added her two cents in defense of the new indoctrination program. "Addressing implicit bias at the level of the individual is important and necessary to a meaningful and productive conversation about race," she said.


	Los Angeles decided to use “implicit bias” training materials developed by Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Employees will be required to complete their indoctrination by the end of 2021 and continue to endure the indoctrination on an annual basis.


	The Kirwan Institute has <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.judicialwatch.org%2Fcorruption-chronicles%2Fsoros-funded-group-to-provide-mandatory-implicit-bias-training-for-city-workers-in-l-a%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac09579459024cb4db2908d926d1464e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637583502530046504%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=mbeIMH48qAfSnPG8DrSViFLZwltPZZpjMPBY4agOZRQ%3D&amp;reserved=0">received funding from leftwing George Soros</a> through his Open Society Foundations. The institute’s senior legal analyst, Kyle Strickland, has openly espoused the tenets of critical race theory. “The racial disparities and inequality that we see today,” <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dispatch.com%2Fstory%2Fopinion%2F2021%2F02%2F06%2Fblack-white-confronting-racism-systems-power%2F4392433001%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac09579459024cb4db2908d926d1464e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637583502530056490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=LmtmXyYnE7M3ajriHGLy8M%2FP5W%2Bf%2Ba8RpSF%2BGWcUEv4%3D&amp;reserved=0">Kirwan Institute’s senior legal analyst wrote</a>, “are linked to our country’s legacy of slavery, white supremacy and systemic racism – the compounding harms of racist and discriminatory laws, policies and norms that create and maintain power for white society at the exclusion and exploitation of Black people and other marginalized groups.”


	Here is an example of what Kirwan Institute has to offer in its progressive racism curriculum, which appears in its workbook about “implicit bias in K-12 education.” Evidently, according to one of its hypothetical scenarios, a well-meaning high school teacher was potentially guilty of implicit bias when he expected a Hispanic “undocumented” student to arrive for class on time like all his other students do. This student was the only one who was constantly late, disrupting the class in the process. In the hypothetical, the teacher also criticized this particular student on at least one occasion for being too loud and dramatic during an argument the student was engaged in while in class. The student felt stereotyped and unfairly treated in comparison to her white classmates, a feeling shared by other Latino students at the school.


	Presto! Racism in the form of implicit bias must be afoot in this school. Hurt feelings, not the actual facts, are the end of the story, so long as they are expressed by someone belonging to what progressives consider to be an "oppressed" racial or ethnic group. It doesn't matter if the teacher's intent was to teach personal responsibility and to expect the same standard of good behavior from all of his students. The Kirwan Institute's twisted training is based on the principle of progressive racial and ethnic preferences.


	Mayor Garcetti is forcing Los Angeles city employees to be indoctrinated with progressive racist training adapted to employees’ workplace situations from this same leftwing Kirwan Institute.


	Mayor Garcetti also is promoting “racial equity” within city government and is strongly encouraging local businesses to do the same. “Our city is hungry for change, and we must knit racial justice and affirmative action into the fabric of our policies, our institutions, and our society,” Garcetti said, burnishing his progressive racist credentials.


	Garcetti signed <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lacity.org%2Fsites%2Fg%2Ffiles%2Fwph1706%2Ffiles%2F2021-04%2Fmayorgarcettiexecutivedirective27.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cac09579459024cb4db2908d926d1464e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637583502530056490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Qd3bnLkylhZEOBTTh3PO6t21EPhuk1dBbtGwjnPbt4s%3D&amp;reserved=0">Executive Directive 27</a> in June 2020, which requires Los Angeles City departments to develop specific racial equity action plans and to designate their own racial equity officers. The directive also aims to develop affirmative action plans covering a broad range of racial preferences throughout the Los Angeles city government, including everything from hiring to contracting. “In the absence of thoughtful affirmative action programs, longstanding racial and gender stratification has persisted and deepened,” the directive said.


	In order to achieve his affirmative action ambitions, Garcetti campaigned for the repeal of the existing voter-approved Proposition 209 (1996) banning affirmative action in California's public sector. Proposition 209 prohibits the government and public institutions from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting. By a large margin, a majority of California voters said no to repealing this ban on affirmative action. They didn’t buy the progressive dogma that requiring the government to be color-blind and race neutral in its policies and practices is racist.


	In his 2021 State of the City address, Mayor Garcetti described his latest proposed budget as “a roadmap to a city built on justice and equity.” He boasted that his “justice budget” was arguably the “most progressive of any big city anywhere.” To prove his point, Garcetti said that he wants to “push toward creating a pilot slavery reparations program for Black Angelenos” on a scale that he claimed has never been tried before.


	Mayor Garcetti’s city is crumbling around him. Angelenos are voting with their feet to escape the mess that Garcetti has made worse with his leftwing policies. The mayor’s answer is to create even more disastrous programs promoting progressive racism that divide the city by race and ethnic background. Garcetti has joined the rogues’ gallery of big-city Democratic mayors who have failed their constituents. 
	 
	Other Parts of Series: 
	 
	Part 1: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/">Chicago's Lori Lightfoot</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed</a>. 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

Racist Mayor: Eric Garcetti

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	Shortly after 9 p.m. on the night of May 24, a 17-year-old black youth named Keyshawn Williams was standing on a sidewalk along Chicago’s South Oakley Boulevard when someone in a silver BMW <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/24/22452474/17-year-old-boy-killed-another-wounded-tri-taylor-shooting">opened fire</a> and killed him in a drive-by shooting. 
	 
	The night before that, a 25-year-old African American named Ladell Arnold was riding in a vehicle along West Flournoy Street in Chicago at 7:10 p.m. when he was <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/23/22450698/2-shot-1-fatally-drive-by-homan-square-police">shot</a> and killed by a nearby gunman. 
	 
	The night before that, a 46-year-old black man named Johnnie Williams was standing on a sidewalk along Chicago’s South Michigan Avenue at 7:30 p.m. when some people riding in two passing vehicles shot him <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/22/22449342/3-shot-in-washington-park-crime-gun-violence-homicide">dead</a> while also wounding two others. 
	 
	And at 11:50 p.m. the night before that, a 15-year-old black boy named <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/5/22/22448663/15-year-old-critically-hurt-lawndale-shooting">Dajon Gater</a> was on the front porch of a West Lexington Street house in Chicago, when two armed males approached and killed him with a gunshot to the head. 
	 
	Like four tiny grains of sand among many thousands in an hourglass, the names of these four dead victims blend imperceptibly into the long list of African Americans whose lives in recent years have been snuffed out by other blacks in the killing field known as Chicago. During the past 12 months alone, more than 820 people have been victims of <a href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/">homicide</a> in The Windy City. And most of them were blacks killed by other blacks.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
	 
	Of course, you’ve never before heard of any of the four individuals cited above – nor will you ever come across their names again – for the simple reason that none of their deaths can be traced to the actions of a white police officer – or to the actions of any white person at all, for that matter. Thus, there will be no Black Lives Matter protest marches held in their honor; no $25,000 celebrity-funded <a href="https://www.thecourierdaily.com/george-floyd-golden-casket-open-closed-paid/20423/">golden caskets</a> eternally encasing their bodies in the grave; and no gaggle of reporters or “civil rights leaders” repeatedly recounting, with pained and pious countenances, the tragic stories of how these four individuals died, far too young, in America’s third largest city. No, the only words publicly memorializing these four people will be the names etched silently on their tombstones. 
	 
	The chief political executive of the hell hole called Chicago is Lori Lightfoot, the latest in an unbroken, 90-year line of exclusively Democrat mayors extending all the way back to 1931. Under Lightfoot’s stewardship, homicides in Chicago increased by an astonishing 40 percent from 2019 to 2020 – a pattern that was seen in a host of Democrat-run cities after George Floyd’s death a year ago. And Chicago’s stratospheric homicide rate has <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html">continued</a> well into 2021. 
	 
	In light of the fact that violent death has become a way of life in Lightfoot’s Chicago, it was nothing short of remarkable to hear her recently <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagosmayor/status/1395019807846649861" target="_blank">announce</a> that “on the <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-chicago-journalists/2021/05/19/id/1022000/">occasion</a> of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city,” she would be “prioritizing media requests from POC reporters,” an acronym meaning “people of color” -- rather than prioritizing the urgent need to get the city’s murder rate under control. Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryAnnAhernNBC/status/1394766979450425360" target="_blank">confirmed</a>&nbsp;that according to the mayor’s spokeswoman, “Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews only to Black or Brown journalists.” 
	 
	Lightfoot was more than eager to defend her clearly articulated intent to separate reporters into two separate classes, the preferred (nonwhite) and the non-preferred (white). Like the Black Lives Matter racists who felt wholly justified in terrorizing hundreds of American cities and towns last year, Lightfoot is more than proud to display her own particular brand of racism like a badge of honor. In a two-page <a href="https://twitter.com/tahmanbradley/status/1395030890888187906/photo/1">letter</a> to the media, she wrote that her decision to deny interview requests from white reporters was based on her commitment to “fight for diversity and inclusion,” “break up the status quo” that has been “failing so many,” and pay homage to the “historic reckoning” by which the nation has recently been forced to confront its own “systemic racism” and its “deep-seated legacies around institutionalized racism.” Lamenting “the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets,” Lightfoot <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-chicago-journalists/2021/05/19/id/1022000/">wrote</a>: “It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI [Asian American / Pacific Islander] or Native American.” 
	 
	“At the two-year anniversary of my inauguration,” Lightfoot <a href="https://twitter.com/tahmanbradley/status/1395030890888187906/photo/2">told</a> the press, “I am issuing a challenge to you. Hire reporters of color – especially women of color – to cover Chicago politics, and City Hall in particular. If you have only a white reporter covering City Hall, make sure there’s a person of color working with them as well.” In short, Mayor Lightfoot feels justified in dictating to private media companies exactly how they should allocate their limited financial resources, and whom they should hire to do which jobs. As is invariably the case with self-identified leftwing warriors for “racial justice,” the spirit of totalitarianism burns bright and hot in the heart of Lori Lightfoot. 
	 
	Nor is racial obsession anything new for Mayor Lightfoot. She’s very comfortable with it. Indeed, just three months ago Lightfoot proudly <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/02/chicago-prepares-tear-down-jewish-washington-daniel-greenfield/">announced</a> that “a racial <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/02/17/41-problematic-monuments-flagged-city-commission-identified?fbclid=IwAR2adMUWbAPcEDe_2i5CaET0rXI_mfoUAv3itD3OfNrMd7qGQCq4S-F9tbM">healing</a> and historical reckoning” initiative known as the&nbsp; Chicago Monuments Project, which the city had launched six months earlier to confront the “hard truths of Chicago’s racial history,” had determined that no fewer than 41 separate statues and monuments situated in various locations across the city could be subject to removal from the public square because they: (a) “promot[e] narratives of white supremacy”; (b) “memorializ[e] individuals with connections to racist acts, slavery and genocide”; (c) presen[t] selective, over-simplified, one-sided views of history”; and (d) do “not sufficiently include[e] other stories, in particular those of women, people of color and themes of labor, migration and community building.” The purportedly offensive statues and monuments include those erected in honor of such notables as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin, William McKinley, Leif Ericson, the French missionary Jacques Marquette, and the cartographer Louis Jolliet. 
	 
	“This project is a powerful opportunity for us to come together as a city to assess the many monuments and memorials across our neighborhoods and communities—to face our history and what and how we memorialize that history,” Lightfoot <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/02/17/41-problematic-monuments-flagged-city-commission-identified?fbclid=IwAR2adMUWbAPcEDe_2i5CaET0rXI_mfoUAv3itD3OfNrMd7qGQCq4S-F9tbM">said</a>. This was particularly important, the mayor emphasized, in light of “the past year and in particular the past summer that made clear [that America’s racist] history isn’t past.” 
	 
	The standards by which Mayor Lightfoot is prepared to pass judgment on the alleged moral deficiencies of historical giants and national heroes, stand in stark contrast to the standards by which she judges modern-day leftists. 
	 
	Consider, for instance, how Lightfoot, in the early days of her mayoralty two years ago, gleefully <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-abortion-law-bill-in-restrictions/5318499/">celebrated</a> the <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2019/june/StatementRHALaw.html">passage</a> of Illinois’ so-called Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which repealed the state's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act; removed restrictions on late-term abortions and on the imposition of criminal penalties against physicians who perform them; and expanded insurance coverage for abortion procedures. When the RHA initially cleared the state's Human Services Committee and was sent to the full Illinois House for consideration, Lightfoot issued a statement saying, “I applaud the legislators who voted yes tonight on the passage of the Reproductive Health Act…. The time is now to ensure that we preserve access to safe, legal abortion in our state. We won't go backwards.” When the bill was subsequently signed into law by the governor a few weeks later, Lightfoot said: “Today, the state of Illinois sent a clear message that we will protect the fundamental right of residents and expand access to reproductive health care.” 
	 
	So, Lori Lightfoot’s standard is abundantly clear. Statues honoring white people who made enormous contributions to America and to Western civilization -- but who may have been insufficiently militant, by Lightfoot’s reckoning, in fighting to eradicate slavery -- should be banned from the public square as punishment for the shortcomings of those individuals. But modern-day leftwing zealots who stand in favor of legalizing the killing of fully formed human beings in the womb – in the noble name of “reproductive rights,” of course – are to be hailed and celebrated as champions of liberty. 
	 
	Subsequent Parts of Series: 
	Part 2: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/eric-garcetti-los-angeles-racist-mayor-joseph-klein/">LA's Eric Garcetti</a>. 
	Part 3: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-muriel-bowser-matthew-vadum/">DC's Muriel Bowser</a>. 
	Part 4: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-quinton-lucas-joseph-klein/">KC's Quinton Lucas</a>. 
	Part 5: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/">SF's London Breed</a>. 
	Part 6: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jim-kenney-thom-nickels/">Philly's Jim Kenney.</a> 
	Part 7: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-tishaura-jones-joseph-klein/">St. Louis' Tishaura Jones</a>. 
	Part 8: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-radical-mayor-chokwe-antar-lumumba-daniel-greenfield/">Jackson's Chokwe Antar Lumumba</a>. 
	Part 9: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jenny-durkan-joseph-klein/">Seattle's Jenny Durkan</a>. 
	Part 10: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-jacob-frey-bruce-bawer/">Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey</a>. 
	Part 11: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-nikuyah-walker-matthew-vadum/">Charlottesville's Nikuyah Walker</a>. 
	Part 12: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-ted-wheeler-thom-nickels/">Portland’s Ted Wheeler.</a> 
	Part 13: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-daniel-greenfield/">Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.</a> 
	Part 14: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/racist-mayor-bill-de-blasio-john-perazzo/">NYC’s Bill de Blasio</a>.

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