DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza to be renamed after GOP rep introduces bill

[Anonymous]

"A spokesperson for D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed to News4 that Black Lives Matter Plaza will be renamed."

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-plaza-being-renamed-after-gop-rep-introduced-bill/3858417/

This was one of the concessions Bowser made to Trump when she went to Mar a Lago to kiss the ring.

[Anonymous]

Good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good.

I can't stand Trump and MAGA, but this idea that we should be using DC tax funding to paint (twice!) a political slogan in huge letters all over the street was nuts from the beginning. It's particularity nuts when you consider what BLM has become and how many deaths of black people they helped foster with their crazy ideas about policing, or lack thereof.

[Anonymous]

Just like I do not like radical positions on the right, nor do I like them on the left Left. Good riddance.

[Anonymous]

It's long past due. What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was. "Look at D.C.! We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just like I do not like radical positions on the right, nor do I like them on the left Left. Good riddance.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's long past due. What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was. "Look at D.C.! We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

Thanks for sharing the racist a-hole interpretation of "BLM". You are probably anti"CRT" and anti"DEI" as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's long past due. What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was. "Look at D.C.! We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

Thanks for sharing the racist a-hole interpretation of "BLM". You are probably anti"CRT" and anti"DEI" as well.

Both CRT and DEI are inherently racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's long past due. What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was. "Look at D.C.! We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

Thanks for sharing the racist a-hole interpretation of "BLM". You are probably anti"CRT" and anti"DEI" as well.

Both CRT and DEI are inherently racist.

They are reactions to exclusion. If racism and other forms of exclusion (disability is a part of DEI) didn't exist, they wouldn't have been needed.

[Anonymous]

Good +1. It's ugly and divisive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's long past due. What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was. "Look at D.C.! We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

Thanks for sharing the racist a-hole interpretation of "BLM". You are probably anti"CRT" and anti"DEI" as well.

Both CRT and DEI are inherently racist.

They are reactions to exclusion. If racism and other forms of exclusion (disability is a part of DEI) didn't exist, they wouldn't have been needed.

the way to stop racism is to stop being racist, not by elevating and glorifying one race over others. If it was "All Lives Matter Plaza", nobody would consider it to be a racist dog whistle pandering to a culture of grievance.

[Anonymous]

It's not divisive; the point of that slogan is not ONLY Black Lives Matter, it's that Black Lives Matter ALSO. (I am white, it's just not that hard to grasp this concept.) If you're not sure why anyone would feel the need to remind society at large that Black lives also matter, try reading some news, history, or sociology.

However. It would have been insane to fight on this point and risk the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of federal transportation funding. So I'm glad the District is backing down in advance from a confrontation that would have ended badly and not have been worth the battle.

[Anonymous]

Does Congress have that authority?

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Anonymous wrote:It's long past due. What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was. "Look at D.C.! We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

Thanks for sharing the racist a-hole interpretation of "BLM". You are probably anti"CRT" and anti"DEI" as well.

Both CRT and DEI are inherently racist.

They are reactions to exclusion. If racism and other forms of exclusion (disability is a part of DEI) didn't exist, they wouldn't have been needed.

the way to stop racism is to stop being racist, not by elevating and glorifying one race over others. If it was "All Lives Matter Plaza", nobody would consider it to be a racist dog whistle pandering to a culture of grievance.

You are being purposely obtuse. That is divisive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not divisive; the point of that slogan is not ONLY Black Lives Matter, it's that Black Lives Matter ALSO. (I am white, it's just not that hard to grasp this concept.) If you're not sure why anyone would feel the need to remind society at large that Black lives also matter, try reading some news, history, or sociology.

However. It would have been insane to fight on this point and risk the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of federal transportation funding. So I'm glad the District is backing down in advance from a confrontation that would have ended badly and not have been worth the battle.

Then add the word "also" and avoid the potential confusion.