The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, is drawing criticism after posting a controversial poem online that described her city using terminology associated with rape.
“Charlottesville: The beautiful-ugly that it is,” Mayor Nikuyah Walker, a Democrat, posted on social media on Wednesday. “It rapes you, comforts you in its cum stained sheet and tells you to keep its secrets.”
— Mayor Nikuyah Walker (@NikuyahWalkerCC) March 24, 2021
That post was removed by Facebook, prompting Walker to post a more detailed version.
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“Charlottesville: The beautiful-ugly it is. It lynched you, hung the noose at city hall and pressed the souvenir that was once your finger against its lips,” Walker wrote. “It covers your death with its good intentions. It is a place where white women with Black kids collects signature for a white man who questions whether a black woman understands white supremacy.”
“Charlottesville is anchored in white supremacy and rooted in racism. Charlottesville rapes you and covers you in sullied sheets,” Walker added.
The posts were widely criticized on both Facebook and Twitter, including in a tweet from the Virginia Republican Party urging Walker to delete the message.
Delete this.
— Virginia GOP (@VA_GOP) March 24, 2021
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Walker was elected mayor of Charlottesville in 2017, the first black woman to hold the office, and she often spoke out on the campaign trail against the 2017 Unite the Right rally that turned violent when a suspected white supremacist drove his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
