{"id":2433008,"date":"2025-05-09T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recently-ousted-big-city-mayor-attacks-voters-as-racist-after-her-humiliating-defeat\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:43:30","slug":"recently-ousted-big-city-mayor-attacks-voters-as-racist-after-her-humiliating-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recently-ousted-big-city-mayor-attacks-voters-as-racist-after-her-humiliating-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Ousted Big-City Mayor Attacks Voters as Racist After Her Humiliating Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Frecently-ousted-big-city-mayor-attacks-voters-as-racist-after-her-humiliating-defeat%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=2433008&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>in an interview with St. Louis Public Radio,former Mayor Tishaura Jones discussed her recent loss in the mayoral election,attributing her defeat to racial factors. Despite being the incumbent, Jones lost to Cara Spencer, which she interpreted as evidence of racism among voters, particularly white ones. Jones indicated that white voters she spoke to could not articulate reasons for their support of Spencer, leading her to conclude that race was the only explanation. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >interview overlooked significant context<\/a>: the local Democratic Party&#8217;s unprecedented choice to endorse Spencer over the sitting mayor. This shift in party support suggests that dissatisfaction with Jones&#8217;s performance may have contributed to her loss, challenging her narrative of racial bias. The article emphasizes the need for political leaders to reflect on their own shortcomings rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/govt-economists-fail-to-say-recession-is-coming\/\" title=\"Govt Economi...s fail to say recession is coming\">blame external factors<\/a>, drawing parallels to comments made by former President Joe Biden regarding race in political losses.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s the best reaction when you fail to achieve your goals? If you ask former St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, you lash out with accusations of racism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlpr.org\/government-politics-issues\/2025-05-08\/tishaura-jones-reflects-highs-lows-st-louis-mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Louis Public Radio<\/a> published its interview with Jones Thursday, quoting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lightfoot-goes-down-and-a-moderate-liberal-faces-a-leftist-in-chicago\/\" title=\"Lightfoot Goes Down, and a Moderate Liberal Faces a Lefti... in Chicago\">single-term mayor<\/a> about her time in office. Last month Jones, a black woman, failed in her re-election bid to Cara Spencer, a former member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, a white woman.<\/p>\n<p>During that interview, SLPR&rsquo;s Jason Rosenbaum asked Jones about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/non-white-voters-approve-photo-voting-white-voters-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white voters<\/a>, wanting her to compare her victory in 2021 to her loss this year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you think you did as well in 2025 in majority-white progressive wards in the city as you did in 2021?&rdquo; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Jones&rsquo; response was that it all comes down to race, since she could not think of any other reason why people did not vote for her.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, even when my team had conversations with white voters in south St. Louis, they could not give us a reason why they didn&rsquo;t like me or why they were voting for Mayor Spencer,&rdquo; she told him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And if you can&rsquo;t give me a reason, or something that I have particularly done, then the only default is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/department-education-lists-52-universities-investigation-race-based-dei-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race<\/a>.&rdquo; Jones concluded.<\/p>\n<p>There it is.<\/p>\n<p>Jones decided that if no explanation can be found, the answer is most certainly racism.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that if her team did approach voters, they might not feel comfortable blasting the incumbent to her team&rsquo;s faces.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is a black woman. Her opponent Spencer is a white woman. That must mean the voters are racist, right?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe there were other factors.<\/p>\n<p>One glaring factor that the St. Louis Public Radio interview failed to mention is that the local Democratic Party took the highly unusual step of NOT endorsing Jones, who was the Democratic incumbent in a deep-blue city. Instead, they voted to throw their support behind Spencer, another Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In an &lsquo;unprecedented&rsquo; move, the City of St. Louis Democratic Central Committee officially endorsed the challenger running against an incumbent mayor,&rdquo; KSDK-TV reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/politics\/st-louis-democratic-party-endorses-cara-spencer-mayor\/63-720ade14-d160-4ac1-9844-a8243d6a76f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8<\/a>, just one month before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 26 committee members in 14 wards, &ldquo;Spencer won 15 votes, seven of them from Black committee members,&rdquo; the TV news outlet reported, adding that two members abstained, two were absent, and nine voted for Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The officials quoted in the story were politely vague about the highly unusual step of not supporting an incumbent from their own party. Even Spencer was circumspect in her reaction to winning the Democratic Party endorsement, making references to &ldquo;issues in the past with a lot of folks, divide and conquer and that sort of thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This, to me, really speaks to a unifying component of our city,&rdquo; Spencer told KSDK. &ldquo;Committee members elected by the constituencies of wards all over the city of St. Louis coming together to be supportive of a change and a path working together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, if Jones lost support from even some of the predominantly black wards in her city, there must have been broad dissatisfaction with the way she was doing her job.<\/p>\n<p>That plot twist puts Jones&rsquo; cries of racism in a very different light.<\/p>\n<p>Comments made Thursday by former president Joe Biden Thursday deserve to be met with similar skepticism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-joe-biden-insults-american-voters-giving-ridiculous-explanation-kamala-harris-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During his appearance<\/a> on an episode of &ldquo;The View,&rdquo; Biden looked back at former Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; loss in November to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Jones, Biden said he thought Harris&rsquo; loss came down to her being a mixed-race woman running against a white man.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&rsquo;s at the local or national level, this is a losing mentality.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you&rsquo;re faced with shortcomings, the most productive next step is to look inward. Where is there room for improvement? That&rsquo;s the right question to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Blaming external factors goes nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nfl-superstar-saquon-barkley-schools-critics-slamming-golfing-trump-not-hard-concept-understand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professional sports<\/a> team losing a championship, then &mdash; instead of promising to work harder next season &mdash; blaming the referees, the opposing team&rsquo;s fans, and the weather on the field that day.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Jones are committing the political equivalent of that. There&rsquo;s no room for improvement on their side. It has to be somebody else&rsquo;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>See how far that gets you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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According to former St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, it involves making accusations of racism. In an interview with St. Louis Public Radio, Jones discussed her tenure as mayor after losing her re-election bid last month to Cara Spencer, a white woman and former member of the Board of Aldermen. When asked about her performance in predominantly white progressive areas compared to her previous victory in 2021, Jones attributed her loss solely to race, claiming that if voters couldn\u2019t provide reasons for their choice, then race must be the factor at play.<\/p>\n<p>Jones noted that even when engaging with white voters in South St. Louis, they struggled to articulate why they preferred Spencer over her. She concluded that without a clear explanation from them, racism was the only possible reason for their voting behavior.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s worth mentioning that the local Democratic Party made an unusual decision not to endorse Jones despite being a Democratic incumbent in a strongly blue city; instead, they backed Spencer. This lack of support from within her own party could indicate broader dissatisfaction with Jones&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this context, one might view Jones&#8217;s claims of racism differently. Similarly skeptical reactions are warranted regarding comments made by former President Joe Biden about Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s loss against Donald Trump; he suggested it was due to Harris being a mixed-race woman running against a white man.<\/p>\n<p>At both local and national levels, such blame-shifting is counterproductive. Instead of seeking self-improvement after setbacks\u2014like how sports teams should reflect on their performance\u2014Biden and Jones seem inclined to attribute failures solely to external factors rather than examining their own shortcomings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2433009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tishaura-Jones.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3728,4602,50526],"class_list":["post-2433008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election","tag-mayor","tag-racism-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tishaura-Jones.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433008","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433012,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433008\/revisions\/2433012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}