A Post-Election Screed
(in the spirit of Jay-Z’s “Jigga
What, Jigga Who”)
Jigga What?
Wait…did ya’ll, for the third time in almost 30 years,
allow a Black mayor to only serve one term in office?
Uh huh uh huh!
Jigga Who?
Did ya’ll help elect a white, barely experienced alderwoman
to beat a Black highly educated, highly experienced Black female mayor?
OK, OK!
Jigga We?
Did we just turn the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment (E&A), the powerful agency that controls the city’s purse
strings, over to three white women?
Yup, uh huh uh huh!
Jigga What?
Did we oust the Black mayor who, for the first time in
history, vow to invest millions in Black North St. Louis neighborhoods, jobs,
businesses and housing?
OK, OK!
Jigga We?
Did we, after watching Trump’s billionaire tech bros buy
his way into office, allow millionaire real estate developers to buy us a new
mayor?
Uh huh uh huh!
Jigga How?
How did we allow a freakin’ snow and ice storm to be
the determining factor in a mayoral race?
OK, OK!
Jigga What?
Did we let the biased coverage of the region’s daily
newspaper convince us that the first Black female mayor was the most “corrupt” of all
white mayors in St. Louis history?
Uh huh uh huh!
Jigga We?
Did we allow a Black comptroller with almost 30 years on
the job…who repeatedly delivered an A+ rating for the city, be replaced by a
relatively unknown White alderwoman from south St. Louis?
Uh huh uh huh!
Jigga How?
Knowing that everything Black-education, diversity, equity,
history-everything sacred is under attack from the Right…how did we just vote
for total white control of the city?
Uh huh uh huh!
Jigga What?
Did slightly more than 25% of registered voters even bother
to turn out for the mayor’s race?
Yup, uh huh uh huh!
Jigga Who?
Are the Black preachers, politicians and those with
petty gripes who conspired to elect a white woman over a Black woman for mayor
now calling for “reconciliation?”
Uh huh uh huh
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All I can sadly say is (shaking my head) …
Jigga, Jigga, Jigga!
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