Anonymous wrote:I am sure that when DC its its first white mayor, in decades, none of the anti-Bowsers will have anything to complain about. The same DC government employees will be perofirming the exact same duties they perform now. The schools will be the same. The parks will be the same. The developers will give money to their candidate of choice. Clark, Douglas, W-T are going to do what they do. With more and more residents of DC relocated from the eurocentric racially homogenous regions of flyover country, the south, and NE, it is completely understandable that there is considerable hostility toward Mayor Bowser. The idea that she has done little or is corrupt is language that whites have been using for centuries to describe African-Americans. It is a mindset that is deeply ingrained in the consciousness of many white Americans that short of athletics and entertainment, Blacks have marginal added value to American society. For example, take how some whites denigrate Benjamin Banneker HS. The students at Banneker are enrolled in either IB, or AP tracks, work hard, and earn large number of scholarships each year. Nevertheless, you will have some white adults who, paid for ACT/SAT tutoring, kumon, or some other private tutoring for their child only to have them score negligibly higher than Banneker students, who did not receive private tutoring, on the ACT or SAT. Yet these same white adults will have the temerity to state that Banneker is below average. The more I type this, the more I am coming to realize that white supremacy is a mental defect. It would really be great if the anti-Bowser folks would just openly admit that there is nothing an African American could do to ever earn your respect. Admitting that sentiment would not only make you a racist, it would also make you honest. I can respect an honest racist because at least we can have dialogue. It is the dishonest, microagressing racist that I don't respect.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the anti-Bowser sentiment on here boils down to the fact that she's talking about increasing density in Ward 3 (though so far, not actually done much to make it happen). If not for that, no one on DCUM would care much about her either way.

Some of us live in Ward 4 and experienced her poor stewardship firsthand.

She wasn't the mayor of Ward 4, so you really experienced Vince Gray or Adrian Fenty's poor stewardship.

That's not really how it works. We got previews to poor leadership of Fenty before he was mayor AND Bowser before she was mayor. Trust that we "experienced" them firsthand.

That is exactly how it works. The D.C. Council is a representative body, not an executive one.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the anti-Bowser sentiment on here boils down to the fact that she's talking about increasing density in Ward 3 (though so far, not actually done much to make it happen). If not for that, no one on DCUM would care much about her either way.

Some of us live in Ward 4 and experienced her poor stewardship firsthand.

She wasn't the mayor of Ward 4, so you really experienced Vince Gray or Adrian Fenty's poor stewardship.

That's not really how it works. We got previews to poor leadership of Fenty before he was mayor AND Bowser before she was mayor. Trust that we "experienced" them firsthand.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by the anti-Bowser sentiments on these boards. I'm basically indifferent toward her but obviously some people have strong feelings against her. Why is that? I thought she's done a pretty good job with the current protests and managing the last few years (healthy budgets, no major scandals, etc).

Don’t listen much to the stuff above, there’s lots of misinformation in this thread.
(Keep in mind there are many conservatives here, and conservatives hate DC and want to attack it... and Bowser)


Bowser is fine, as you say. But she’s a former mid-level bureaucrat that still thinks with that mindset. She’s not a leader or a big thinker.
So little really gets done. Good example is with schools; DCPS plods along under her, ignoring the big changes that are needed due to the dramatic changes in school-age kids in the District.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally dislike her bc she’s been completely worthless on every type of traffic/pedestrian safety issue. She doesn’t walk, bike or take transit herself so she’s happy to let the 40% of us without a car be terrorized by rampaging MD drivers every day

She's like that on every other issue too.

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed by the anti-Bowser sentiments on these boards. I'm basically indifferent toward her but obviously some people have strong feelings against her. Why is that? I thought she's done a pretty good job with the current protests and managing the last few years (healthy budgets, no major scandals, etc).

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the anti-Bowser sentiment on here boils down to the fact that she's talking about increasing density in Ward 3 (though so far, not actually done much to make it happen). If not for that, no one on DCUM would care much about her either way.

Some of us live in Ward 4 and experienced her poor stewardship firsthand.

She wasn't the mayor of Ward 4, so you really experienced Vince Gray or Adrian Fenty's poor stewardship.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the anti-Bowser sentiment on here boils down to the fact that she's talking about increasing density in Ward 3 (though so far, not actually done much to make it happen). If not for that, no one on DCUM would care much about her either way.

Some of us live in Ward 4 and experienced her poor stewardship firsthand.

Anonymous wrote:Most of the anti-Bowser sentiment on here boils down to the fact that she's talking about increasing density in Ward 3 (though so far, not actually done much to make it happen). If not for that, no one on DCUM would care much about her either way.

Anonymous wrote:I personally dislike her bc she’s been completely worthless on every type of traffic/pedestrian safety issue. She doesn’t walk, bike or take transit herself so she’s happy to let the 40% of us without a car be terrorized by rampaging MD drivers every day