Posted on 06/02/2020 1:16:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Democratic mayor is blaming "white men" for the destruction in major U.S. cities as protests turned to riots over the weekend following George Floyd's death.
After looting broke out across her city on Sunday night, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan tweeted that white people had co-opted "peaceful demonstrations" that became violent as the weekend wore on.
"I want to acknowledge that much of the violence and destruction, both here in Seattle and across the country, has been instigated and perpetuated by white men," she said.
In a follow-up tweet, Durkan asserted that white protesters were utilizing their "privilege" to divert the purpose of the demonstrations, which began as a response to Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police last week.
"These individuals experience the height of privilege and are co-opting peaceful demonstrations that were organized by and meant to center people of color, particularly Black Americans," she said.
Durkan's comments came after Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety John Harrington blamed the riots in Minneapolis on "white supremacist organizers."
The Seattle mayor joined a chorus of media outlets who have alleged the nationwide protests are being enabled by white supremacist groups opportunistically taking advantage of civil unrest. On Friday, MSNBC host Joy Reid reported that St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said over "80%" of arrested protesters were from out of state and that "white nationalist groups" were partly to blame.
Jail records taken after Thursday's mayhem in Minneapolis contradicted Carter's figures.
Courting the black vote, nice!
Might as well blame us. We also own almost everything, so there’s that.
Soros, Clintons and the Rothchilds who are paying to incite the blacks to be cannon fodder are all white so maybe she’s right.
Of course...this isn’t what the mayor means.
Not sure I’d call you anarchist exports “men” Mr. Mayor.
We are never going to win this battle. We need to somehow figure a way to secede. Do it now while the iron is hot.
Uhhh...
Yeah I’ll agree with that
Eschew Seattle for evermore.
It’s easy to do.
True - but if you can get them to stop listening to white leftists we may have actually solved the problem.
But she said it and she owns it now.
Make her keep it.
Send her pictures of Soros, Clinton, Biden, Brennan, Comey, Clapper.
Meme her feed.
You can’t expect anything less from a lesbo.
Buying protection by paying off the mob.
Whatever.
Washington state has some world-class dumb-ass politicians and most of them are sexual deviants as well. Being a politician is probably the only thing they are qualified for. Hell, even journalists have some qualifications and that’s not saying much.
Antifa is a white man’s organization.
Ok fine, they are white democrat, socialist riots
But their loudest and shrillest members are young white womyn.
Lib women...their lack of brains is beyond words. IF they had as many brains as they do emotions, they’d all be rocket scientists.
BTW, we wouldn’t even have a nation had not been for “white men”. So, I guess she’d be ok with herself going back to loin cloths and chucking spears at each other while living in a cave? whadda fricken’, lib, moronic tool and the same goes for the morons that elect em.
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