The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, who clearly hates her own city, has withdrawn from the November City Council election.
Mayor Nikuyah Walker cited the supposed racism of her colleagues as the reason for ending her reelection bid. In Charlottesville, citizens vote for City Council members, who then choose one of their own for mayor. Of course she alleges racism and white supremacy. This is her one and only trick.
“I’ve been struggling with this decision since March,” Walker said Wednesday on Facebook. “I’ve wanted to stay and fight because the only people who will lose will be Black and other vulnerable people in this community. I’ve been fighting overt, covert, and internalize racism everyday of my life and it feels like it has been more prominent than oxygen during my time on council.”
She added, “However, I still managed to get up everyday and work for pennies to make this community a better place. I fight for you all as if I earn billions. I am tired.”
Walker’s announcement comes immediately after a tense Charlottesville City Council meeting in which she failed to convince her colleagues to support former Police Chief RaShall Brackney, who was terminated from her post by City Manager Chip Boyles.
“The racism that was on display last night at the council meeting and during our closed session was the final straw,” wrote Walker, an independent whom her City Council peers, all Democrats, chose as the city’s first black mayor in 2017.
She then accused specific City Council members of being racists for not backing the recently ousted police chief. Never mind that they chose her, Walker, as mayor in the first place.
“Michael, couldn’t bring himself to defend a Black women,” Walker said. “Sena, blindly following whiteness as she has done since January 1, 2020. Heather and Lloyd have been consistent advocates of white is right, white power and the power of whiteness. I am so disappointed in Chip and I will address him later. Another white man, who I cared about, lied on me. It will not happen again.”
Walker added, “No matter how outraged the community gets about the events that continue to transpire, unless you are able to elect more than one person to council who is elected on an anti-racist platform, they will not survive. This form of government needs to change. The city manager has too much power to not be elected by the voters.”
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That Walker cited systemic racism as the reason for ending her City Council reelection campaign is the least surprising thing in the world. It’s all racism all the time with this woman. Indeed, this is the same person who posted a bizarre, and sometimes hard to follow, racial screed to social media in March, describing the city that elected her mayor thus: “It lynched you, hung the noose at city hall and pressed the souvenir that was once your finger against its lips.”
“Charlottesville: The beautiful-ugly it is,” Walker continued. “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.”
Her tirade added that her city is “destructively world class. White people say that it is a place where gentrification started with the election of a Black women in 2017 and because of white power, a lie becomes #facts.”
The people of Charlottesville deserve so much better than this. Then again, perhaps this is their own fault. After all, they elected this race-obsessed dimwit.
Maybe conservative commentator Robert Tracinski put it best when he said Wednesday in response to Walker’s announcement: “Poor Charlottesville, trying so hard to be woke and just sinking deeper into a pit of racial recriminations. Sort of like the country as a whole, really.”
