{"id":2212769,"date":"2024-04-04T07:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-mayor-and-media-use-two-anonymous-tweets-to-turn-bridge-crash-into-racism-story\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:45:16","slug":"democrat-mayor-and-media-use-two-anonymous-tweets-to-turn-bridge-crash-into-racism-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-mayor-and-media-use-two-anonymous-tweets-to-turn-bridge-crash-into-racism-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic mayor and media sensationalize bridge crash as a racism story based on two anonymous tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-mayor-and-media-use-two-anonymous-tweets-to-turn-bridge-crash-into-racism-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2212769&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how a cargo ship \u2062collided with the \u200bFrancis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, leading\u200d to media and political focus on \u200cracism allegations against the\u2064 mayor, rather than the bridge collapse&#8217;s actual causes. It highlights\u200c the trend of\u2064 using accusations of racism to divert attention\u2064 from other issues, \u2062as seen in various public figures&#8217; \u2064actions. Based on the web search results provided, there\u2064 seems to be \u200ba mix-up as the articles\u2062 do not directly address the specific scenario described in\u2062 the query regarding a \u2063cargo ship collision \u2064with\u2062 the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore\u200b leading to accusations of racism\u200b against the mayor. If you can provide\u200d more context or specific details related to the incident \u2062or sources that cover \u200bthis particular angle, I can assist in formulating\u200b a more tailored response.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>You might think after a cargo ship <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-what-to-know-127d6ae38d63561ca4c1f18b3d508ba6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26<\/a> that the focus of media and political commentary would be on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2024\/03\/27\/dirty-fuel-baltimore-key-bridge-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still unknown<\/a> underlying reason the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc17news.com\/news\/national-news\/2024\/03\/28\/electrical-issues-on-ship-likely-to-blame-for-baltimore-bridge-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ship lost power<\/a>. Or perhaps how soon it will take to rebuild the bridge, given that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/3\/30\/what-is-the-economic-cost-of-baltimores-key-bridge-collapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cost the local economy approximately $15 million per day<\/a> it remains closed. But no. The real story about the Baltimore bridge, according to corporate media, is about <em>racism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaltimore mayor weathers racist attacks after bridge collapse,\u201d was the title of one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/03\/31\/baltimore-bridge-collapse-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 31 Washington Post article<\/a>. \u201c\u2018DEI mayor\u2019 insults prove that unapologetic racism is back,\u201d read the title of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/04\/01\/baltimore-bridge-dei-mayor-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> by longtime WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson. \u201cBaltimore Bridge Collapse Creates More DEI Attacks: How Allies Can Push Back,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/janicegassam\/2024\/03\/27\/baltimore-bridge-collapse-creates-more-dei-attacks-how-allies-can-push-back\/?sh=10c223bf177f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read a March 27 piece in Forbes<\/a>. Speaking of his detractors, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/fox59.com\/news\/national-world\/baltimore-mayor-says-critics-dont-have-the-courage-to-say-the-n-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared on MSNBC<\/a>: \u201cWe know what they want to say, but they don\u2019t have the courage to say the N-word.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-547744535\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d5f4b4905b655d5f0820d968b70a9145 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d5f4b4905b655d5f0820d968b70a9145\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet what this faux controversy over Baltimore\u2019s mayor really demonstrates is that our establishment elites will always look for an opportunity to cry \u201cracism\u201d to distract and redirect criticism and to silence critics with baseless ad hominem.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Racist Controversy That Wasn\u2019t<\/h2>\n<p>Despite corporate media\u2019s extensive coverage and commentary on racist attacks against Baltimore Mayor Scott, there\u2019s an incredible paucity of evidence to support these claims. The WaPo \u201cobjective\u201d coverage of this incident cites <em>two <\/em>anonymous users on X (formerly Twitter). You read that right. <em>Two Twitter users<\/em>. And neither responded to WaPo requests for comment. \u201cDespite the online attacks, Scott said, he is trying to stay focused on the crisis,\u201d the WaPo reported. Oh good \u2014 we wouldn\u2019t want the mayor of a city of more than half a million people to be unnerved by two anonymous social media users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/4566162-moore-denounces-dei-blame-for-bridge-collapse-i-have-no-time-for-foolishness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Some Republican politicians<\/a> \u2014 such as Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman and Florida congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini \u2014 have criticized Scott and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/08\/943853734\/baltimores-new-progressive-mayor-is-ready-to-tackle-the-citys-biggest-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">self-professed progressive<\/a> management of Baltimore as connected to the bridge collapse. Whatever the merits of those claims, which seem premature and unsubstantiated, they\u2019re hardly \u201cracist,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/teneshia-carr\/attack-baltimore-mayor-new-low-anti-dei-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commentators contend<\/a>, but the kind of opportunist rhetoric one finds on both sides of the political aisle. <\/p>\n<p>Who in 2024 doesn\u2019t presume events like these won\u2019t be exploited (often cynically) for political gain? But that didn\u2019t stop Scott from <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/race-politics\/4561610-baltimore-mayor-critics-dont-have-the-courage-say-n-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terming them<\/a> \u201crace-baiting\u201d too. \u201cWe\u2019ve been the bogeyman for them since the first day they brought us to this country,\u201d he declared, as if such claims are somehow also not incendiary bluster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1f0b76dca55ae685ddce946eae2dc1bb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1f0b76dca55ae685ddce946eae2dc1bb\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An All-Too-Familiar Trend<\/h2>\n<p>Not that calling one\u2019s critics racist is just the province of Baltimore mayors in 2024. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sought to distract attention from her obvious ethical malfeasances in prosecuting former President Donald Trump by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/fulton-county-district-attorney-fani-willis-accuses-donald-trump-lawyer-of-racial-disrespect-emails-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accusing her detractors of racism<\/a>. Corporate media jumped on that narrative as well, as the National Review observed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/media-cast-criticism-of-fani-willis-as-racist-after-das-chaotic-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jokingly commenting<\/a>: \u201cLet she who has not hired her boyfriend to prosecute a former president on the taxpayer dime cast the first stone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or how about former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who attempted to redirect from her disastrous testimony during a congressional hearing by <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/03\/business\/harvard-claudine-gay-new-york-times-op-ed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming<\/a> her critics were, of course, motivated by racism? Once it became clear that her academic career was based on her penchant for plagiarism and data falsification, or <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/29\/news\/ex-law-prof-claims-harvard-president-claudine-gay-made-a-career-out-of-attacking-black-scholars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempting to destroy the careers<\/a> of fellow (black) academics whose research undermined the dominant DEI narrative, Gay <a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/claudine-gay-pens-op-ed-211546019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only doubled down<\/a> on her allegations of racism against her.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there are the many racial grievance grifters who make their fortune off anti-racism. Nikole Hannah-Jones, who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/26\/1619-project-author-nikole-hannah-jones-got-33k-for-one-hour-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has charged more than $500 per minute for public speaking fees<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/26\/no-refusing-to-teach-the-1619-project-isnt-cancel-culture\/\">accuses<\/a> even the most tempered criticism of her professional work as racially motivated. Bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2020\/10\/against-racialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calls his opponents bigots<\/a>. And Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/05\/the-corruption-of-black-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">siphoned BLM funds<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/17\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-questionable-tax-filings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bankroll her luxurious lifestyle<\/a> \u2014 claims her critics are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/06\/blms-patrisse-cullors-slams-racist-report-on-6m-socal-mansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not only racist<\/a> but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/28\/i-have-a-lot-of-resentment-patrisse-cullors-on-co-founding-black-lives-matter-the-backlash-and-why-the-police-must-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempting to assassinate her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And those are just the stories you\u2019ve heard about. There are, apparently, hordes of racists running wild all over America, disrupting <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2024\/03\/26\/sport\/utah-basketball-racism-ncaa-tournament-spt-intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the women\u2019s college basketball tournament<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-capa-agatha-christie-play-racism-criticism\/\">offering bigoted dramatic portrayals of Agatha Christie novels<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwlp.com\/news\/local-news\/concerns-continue-about-racist-incidents-in-southwick-regional-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing offensive things in high-school bathrooms<\/a>. Could it possibly be that, in a country of more than 330 million people there are a few idiots out there saying and doing stupid, racist things? There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/homicide.htm\">more than 25,000 homicides<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/us-stats-show-violent-crime-dramatically-falling-rising\/story?id=108042096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of thousands<\/a> of cases of robbery or aggravated assault every year. But it\u2019s the handful of morons spewing racist rhetoric who are the <em>real <\/em>threat to America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-65e83fe5fec3039cea7fb234577ddeee fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-65e83fe5fec3039cea7fb234577ddeee\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Playing the Corrosive Racist Card<\/h2>\n<p>Far more than being overrun with racists and their bigoted sympathies, America is overwhelmed with faux crises manufactured by elites claiming America is on the verge of a totalitarian coup by a supposed conspiracy of Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi sympathizers. It is absurd, but it\u2019s certainly a good way to rally the leftist base for the next election cycle. But whatever short-term gains this archives for the left, its effects on our body politic are disastrous.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of citizens, particularly among the younger generation, truly believe that America is systematically racist and that millions of conservative Americans do not simply possess different political opinions but are contemptible <em>racists<\/em>. Thus everything these conservatives think and say, somehow, is ultimately explained by racism. And conservative criticism of incompetent bureaucrats or ideological grifters isn\u2019t motivated by, say, justice and truth \u2014 or perhaps a competing political vision \u2014 but vicious hatred of nonwhite people.<\/p>\n<p>Though there is a certain analogy to the old parable of the boy who cried wolf, this paradigm is far more perverse. Constant accusations of racism seem to only further impress upon a cohort of Americans that their political opponents really are evil bigots. It doesn\u2019t seem to matter how many times the likes of Fani Willis, Claudine Gay, or Nikole Hannah-Jones are proved to be embarrassingly unethical and inept \u2014 the presumption is only ever that criticism of such public figures <em>must be<\/em> false and bigoted. Until our establishment elites can move on from this destructive narrative, there is little hope for productive political discourse in this country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-77e845c99794a526d716c01a3f5de72c fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-77e845c99794a526d716c01a3f5de72c\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, one might expect media and political focus on the ship&#8217;s power loss cause or the bridge&#8217;s rebuilding timeframe and costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":2212770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/52580662350_87122651ed_k-e1712199635714.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democratic mayor and media sensationalize bridge crash as a racism story based on two anonymous tweets","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/52580662350_87122651ed_k-e1712199635714.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democratic mayor and media sensationalize bridge crash as a racism story based on two anonymous tweets","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}