☕ Morning fam,
Leadership in St. Louis right now is a national laughingstock, an embarrassment. Add indictments for corruption and bribery in City Hall to the growing list of things that are making people choose to leave. Things are bad, worse that ever before because St. Louis has never dealt with anything, everything is swept under the rug, people are not to question or challenge despite having to live with the consequences of decades of failed leadership, specifically black people of black leadership that does not advocate for black people, but instead uses their position to enrich themselves, serve as black faces for white people pulling strings behind the scenes and imposes policies that are detrimental to black people.
Indictments against Reed, Boyd and Muhammad is a good start, they’re not the only ones and the corruption is not limited to the city, St. Louis County is just as bad. If charges end with them, nothing will change. And I don’t think black people in St. Louis have the stomach for what it will take. And we can’t count on this movement’s selective targeting of the Mayor’s enemies while having none of the same energy for Kim Gardner, who is currently waiting her fate after admitted wrong doing and behavior the grand jury called reprehensible. Crime is high, record homicides. No shows in court resulting in suspected murderers being set free Oh and how about the lil fact that St. Louis was named the child murder capital on her watch. if Kim Gardner were white, she would be targeted, protested… What good is being the first black anything if you being in that position robs the people you claim you represent of justice… and that’s what Kim Gardner has done.
How is the mayor’s and this movement’s coddling her and their refusal to call for her resignation any different than Mayor Knowle of Ferguson’s or Steve Stenger’s refusal to call for Bob McCulloch to step down? I’ll wait. It isn’t.
And that’s the reason nothing’s changed since Ferguson. The culture of corruption, malfeasance and wrongdoing by those in power hasn’t changed. We got more of the same, just different packaging, the same corruption, cronyism, nepotism, benign neglect, contempt and anti-blackness dipped in chocolate, along with the social experimentation of white radical politics funded by people who do not live here and will not suffer the consequences of the disastrous policies they champion.
People see the handwriting on the wall which is why blacks are fleeing the city in droves. According to the latest census, St. Louis is no longer majority black. And it won’t be long before wards are no longer majority black due to ward reduction and the the city’s import of refugees, immigrants and illegals.
The movement has been bamboozled once again, first by BLM, then by the NPIC and this time into supporting changing the demographics of the city and diluting black power under the guise of humanitarian aid. By the time they realize the damage they’re doing it will be too late, just like with BLM, it took mofos years to get they were being played.
We don’t have years.
