The mayor of Charlottesville fancies herself a poet
Follow the link and you be the judge.
I would add “warning for language,” but actually the disturbance is about more than vulgar language.
Also see this, which includes the following:
Nikuyah Walker was elected to the City Council in November 2017, and currently serves as mayor. Her term is up at the end of 2021. Her political goals have to do with racial and social justice, and the city website states that Walker’s “commitment has been to authentic inclusion, equity, and progress.”
That date, November 2017, struck me as being not long after the Charlottesville demonstration/riot in which one woman was killed and Trump’s remarks were widely disseminated and misrepresented. My guess was that Walker’s election was at least in part a reaction to that incident, and her Wiki page backs that idea up:
Walker began her campaign in March 2017. Her campaign gained traction after the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Walker publicly pressured the City Council and then-mayor Michael Signer to answer questions about why a permit had been issued for the rally, and why the City Council was not addressing issues raised by the event. Walker and Heather Hill were elected to the city council, winning 29% and 28% of the vote respectively.
This is the sort of thing Walker said in a 2018 interview:
Here it’s that polite, you know, civil political scene. I tell people all the time: “In very polite, civil discussions around boardroom tables, eating Baggby’s sandwiches, you have put policies in place that have ruined generations of native families in this area.” So I don’t really care about your request for civility…
Her tweets certainly have proved that to be true.
Diversity [dogma], not limited to racism.
Social (i.e. relativistic) justice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
A Rainbow of inclusive exclusion or politically congruent (“=”), yes.
Equity, not equality, of course.
Progress is an unqualifiied monotonic process: one step forward, two steps backward. Principles matter.
Lose your Pro-Choice religion.
I’m trying to figure out this line:
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Charlottesville is void of a moral compass. It’s as if ole tj is cleverly whipping its inhabitants into submissiveness.
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“ole tj” — Thomas Jefferson?
Typical sort of poem, I regret to say.
We’ve come a long way, baby, since a Democratic President dazzled the nation with this witty, intellectual and patriotic (how can these three adjectives be conjoined in the same sentence?) bon mot:
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
–Extract from John F. Kennedy’s Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere April 29, 1962
There was a time, back when our daughter was at UVA, that we looked forward to visiting Charlottesville. Of course at that time Virginia, or at least most of it, was a pleasant place to live. My wife and I have often commented about how we miss both since moving west. Not so much of late.
The core question, however, is how do politicians get away with this despicable behavior?
Why do voters tolerate officials who use this sort of insulting language? Is it just that Charlottesville, being the home of a major University, has a woke image to maintain? Or is this tolerance of gratuitous race based insults now endemic across the country? Or should I say systemic? Please excuse reference to those hackneyed and over used terms. I couldn’t help myself.
What utter garbage. Imagine a “White” person writing this and the backlash.
C Ville has changed immensely in recent times, as has UVa. Both now have a huge “woke” element. I am an early 80s grad with a daughter who graduated in 17 and a father in late 50s. The tragic incident in 17 probably accelerated the trend. Jefferson, who is intimately associated with the town and the University, was properly revered for so long; now, the University seems not to know what to do with him. He did found the place in every sense of the word, in his “retirement “. However, obviously the current ( ignorant shortsighted) perception is diametrically opposed to “woke”.
I refuse to call this word explosion a poem. I’d as soon call a man a woman.
Chville has degenerated severely since I was there in the 70s. Then, it was a civilized town, with civil and courteous people of all races. It was not then prosperous in contrast to the horsey estates of the county; about 50 % of houses still had dirt floors. People spoke of “Mr. Jefferson” as if he’d just gone away for a weekend and would return momentarily.
It is what happens when you do not slam the door on Leftist BS, but instead let it gain a foothold. It is what is happening to the USA right now. It will get worse and worse and worse.
I came down to C’Ville twelve years ago to get away from the SJW of the Upper West Side where I lived for 15 years. But those same people seemed to have followed me. Virginians are wonderful people, but they resent the recent influx of rich Northerners into the area, with their political correctness and virtue signaling. The political map of VA is changing as a result, hence the Mayor of C’Ville, who should but won’t resign for her racist comments. The local media barely covered this story.
This is what happens when a talentless self-gratifying angry narcissist (but I repeat myself) gets the chance to “speak truth to power.”
As I (too often) do these days, I think of H.L. Mencken’s observation that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Bigly – Donald Trump in Verse: “Make Poetry Great Again.”
Selected and arranged by Rob Long
#StillMyPresident
Enforced equity is by definition injustice…
It can only be achieved by forcibly taking the possessions of those who work for them and giving them to those who refuse to work.
Of course, “social justice” is injustice as well.
So her (as with all leftists) entire agenda is based on creating and perpetuating injustice.
She was elected.
As best I can tell from the link, the wordage was first described as a “poem” by the author after it had been removed from Facebook. I’m puzzled as to what made her call it that. Apart from Its crudity, in form it’s indistinguishable from any other bit of social media snarling.
This would do as an entry in my not-to-be-composed list of Women and MInorities Making the World Worse. One of the lesser annoyances of the current climate is the pervasive treatment of Women And Minorities as the people who are working idealistically and against great opposition from the white male to make the world a better place.
What has happened to the black voters that they choose this sort of ignorant racist fool? Maybe it is white leftists trying to make black voters look stupid. Adam Clayton Powell made much of “sticking it to Whitey” in his day. Maybe that is part of it but it does make those voters look stupid or corrupt.
Politics makes more sense if you recall the early scenes of “2001” with the two ape packs snarling and gesticulating at each other.
I’d rather Walked didn’t call her unpleasant rant poetry, but the bar for poetry isn’t that high. I’m fond of this definition from the Encylopedia Britannica:
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POETRY, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry
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Walker is going for a specific emotional response, however repellent, via language with minor effects of meaning, sound and rhythm.
So, sigh, a poem, if she wants to call it that.
Mac:
Calling it a poem gives her poetic license.
I laminated my poetic license and keep it in my wallet.