Baltimore is heading to 370 murders or higher this year. If we were a foreign country we could be considered a failed state. Whatever the squeegee kid got charged with, it's just one small pebble in a pool of dysfunction and tragedy that virtually every solution enacted so far seems to make worse. The white people of the city get off scot free and then hand everybody else a death sentence because they, in their white privilege, believe they speak for people for whom they do not speak and never have.
The reason Eric Adams won in New York, a former police captain, was black, latino, and low-income voters. The reason Rick Caruso is now a general election candidate in Los Angeles, a Republican until three years ago... is black, latino, and low-income voters. You want the rest of us to listen more closely to underprivileged voices? OK, listen to them. The majority of them are clearly speaking the exact opposite of what you do, and yet you willfully contradict them. You only amplify the minority voices who are homogeneous to you. You have the privilege of not knowing what they do: they're burying their friends and family every day. Death is the one thing that can never be repaired.
If this trend comes here, Thiru Vingarajah is going to become mayor of Baltimore. However much dirt there is on him, there is more dirt on both those others. Very few people care in the bigger cities about that, and I'm not entirely sure they should. Whatever sinister joke 'Thiru' looks like now, he could win big, and the reason is because further left candidates do not take crime seriously.
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