In Classic Leftist Fashion, Seattle Mayor Blames White Men for Riots Across America
By C. Douglas Golden
Look, I get it: If you’re a liberal, this time is about highlighting what you perceive as the systemic oppression of people of color in the United States.
At some level, I’m not even going to argue with that. You do you.
If this is how you think you’re going to quell the riots happening in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic while a goodly portion of your electorate is unemployed and is currently busy destroying places that might, at one point in the future, offer them employment, I’m not going to argue intersectional politics or critical race theory with you.
Having watched plenty of cable news coverage, I’d question the efficacy of your approach, but I think you’re pretty well committed to that road now and you probably don’t need some opinion writer on the internet pointing out your inanities. I wish you good luck, and I do mean that.
However, I will say this: If you’re going to blame white men for a goodly chunk of the rioting across these United States, that’s where I’m going to draw the line.
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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan — a Democrat, in case you had to ask — took to Twitter on Sunday night to deal with an issue that was really chafing at her: The white men involved in the rioting and looting she was seeing:
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.
— Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) May 31, 2020
“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 tweeted.
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.
— Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) May 31, 2020
“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 continued.
There are so many ways you can go with this one, none of which shines a particularly good light on Durkan’s thoughts on the matter.
First, is this what, as the leader of the city of Seattle, Mayor Durkan really wanted to focus on?
Of all the problems her city is facing, what she really wanted people to know — the tweet that she had to realize was going to be grabbing the headlines going into the week — was that there were too many white people out in the streets causing mayhem when this should be about peaceful protests by people of color?
Now, let’s be clear: These were, by in large, peaceful protests by people of all colors, but that’s not what the news is going to focus on when, say, police cruisers are getting molotov cocktailed and store windows are being reduced to expensive pebbles by hurled bricks.
Here’s some of the footage from Seattle from KING-TV, which I present for several reasons:
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