Thought For The Day

Black Lives Matter

June 7, 2020

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love was once the city of horrible racist Mayor Frank Rizzo who Gil Scott-Heron described as, “the high school graduate Mayor of Philadelphia, whose ignorance is surpassed only by those who voted for him.” Too far north to lionize Robert E. Lee, Philadelphia instead propped up the next worst thing and immortalized the homegrown, hometown bigoted thug in bronze.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Protesters defaced and tried in vain to damage Rizzo
before he was ultimately removed from public view

With the backdrop of the George Floyd-inspired Black Lives Matter protests currently supplanting the deadly Chrump-inspired coronavirus across the globe, current Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said, “The Frank Rizzo statue represented bigotry, hatred, and oppression for too many people, for too long. It is finally gone.”

Meanwhile, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser made some changes of her own to the city she leads. Bowser had requested that Chrump “withdraw all extraordinary law enforcement and military presence” (the proverbial knee-on-the-neck of her city) “from Washington, DC.”

When Chrump isn’t “inspecting” the White House bunker, which he said he has done “two and a half times” whatever the fuck that means, he is busy pouring gasoline on the fire of frustration and anger burning across this land. Chrump cares only for his base – a base filled to the brim with hate and fear, and let’s not forget ignorance, lots and lots of ignorance – as he calls hundreds of thousands of mostly peaceful protesters “thugs” and threatens to burn the Constitution by sending active duty troops to put a stop to the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of assembly.

In order to make clear who runs Washington, DC – home to United States presidents, and place from where the current resident recently committed voter fraud – Mayor Bowser did some redecorating of 16^th Street leading up to the White House:

This is not photoshopped. It was painted at the request of DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Bowser also renamed the square in front of St. John's Church, where Chrump pulled his Bible stunt after having his path brutally cleared, “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

Peter Gabriel – Biko

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