Posted on 07/06/2020 6:17:51 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Mayors of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Georgia and Tacoma, Washington spoke about how their experience as black women helped them lead their communities.
As outrage over George Floyd's death and centuries of racial inequality faced reckoning across America, four black female mayors were at the helm to guide their communities.
Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., Sharon Weston Broome of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, and Victoria Woodards of Tacoma, Washington, spoke about how their cities are navigating this historic time.
"Last week I was challenged to be not just mayor, but Victoria Woodards, a black woman [who] happens to be mayor of Tacoma."
For Bottoms, recent events have made her think about how she is a descendant of slaves.
"How do you get past the anger and the hurt and the pain and humiliation of what it's like sometimes to be black in America?" she said.
Washington, D.C. was dealing with a two-fold racial crisis -- violence against people of color and devastation of COVID-19.
"These issues have to be addressed from a very holistic point of view," Bowser said.
After peaceful protesters were met with force by the White House, Bowser ordered a mural spanning a length of 16th Street leading to the president's home -- reading, in bright yellow, "Black Lives Matter."
"We reclaimed that spacet," Bowser said."
"I sent Mayor Bowser a text and I said, 'That was a boss blank blank move!'" Bottoms laughed. "I was so inspired by the boldness of it personally as a fellow mayor, because I could witness the frustration she was having, and to be able to take that power back in such a symbolic way, that was extremely important."
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"The president of the United States attack[ed] an American mayor, me, calling me incompetent -- because we fought back and spoke up for ourselves," Bowser said. "I say frequently that female politicians are attacked more frequently, and more wrongly than anybody else. But I think that the difference that you're saying now is there's a critical mass of us, and we are sticking together and working together."
Now that former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, questions are swirling about whether the female running mate he promised to pick will be a woman of color.
"I think it's an incredible moment for Vice President Biden to wrap his arms around a lot of energy, and to galvanize that energy and push that energy to the ballot box in November," Bowser said. "We're going to let him know that black women are the base of our electorate and we deserve not only a seat at the table but to be in leadership."
We’re going to let him know that black women are the base of our electorate and we deserve not only a seat at the table but to be in leadership-— by electing an old perverted racist white dude who forgets where he is
It’s hard for single black women to build wealth.
Welfare programs need to be redesigned so as to not undermine marriage.
P J O’Rourke wrote a book that tells the story of a black woman refusing to take ownership about 30 years ago of a public housing apartment 10 miles from Midtown Manhattan at no mandatory additional cost to her.
How do Greeks deal with the pain and humiliation of being Greek in Europe? They were enslaved between the Romans and the Ottoman Empire for longer than the blacks were under white masters.
Negotiating? Seriously? With terrorists?
“ How do you get past the anger and the hurt and the pain and humiliation of what it’s like sometimes to be black in America?”
…said the mayor of a major American city.
“...calling me incompetent — because we fought back and spoke up for ourselves,”
In point of fact the president called you incompetent because you failed at the most basic aspect of your jobs - to maintain the law and order necessary to insure that your cities don’t devolve into poverty stricken shit-holes.
I’m sure once you’re finished publically criticizing our president you’ll all be back on the phone begging him for money to fix your screw-ups.
Lib women are the worst of the worst.
ALL their decision-making is based on raw emotion without a like of sense. Then, toss in the BLM lovers, and it’s just outright pure marxism.
Blah blah blah
My life is someone else’s fault.
Three children splitting an inheritance will get less each than just two children.
Countries and groups with lower birth rates tend to benefit more from inheritances.
Yeah, Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta did a bang up job for sure. /sarcasm
The person that tells you skin color is important, is an evil person.
The stock market doesn’t know or care about shareholder race or skin color.
My oh my, what racists and sexists these black women are.
Was that in “Parliament of Whores”?
They should ask Biden to pick Cory Booker, who shares Biden’s beliefs and is not in need of assisted living.
Funny how I see Hispanics and not blacks on construction jobs.
Don’t have my copy handy, but I think you are correct.
“Anger” is a one-way ticket downward.
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