Notice a theme to Trump's planned takeovers of cities? These Black mayors do.

[Jilly_in_VA]

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and other officials in this California city are treating President Donald Trump's warning that he might send the National Guard there as more than just an offhand comment.

They’re bracing for a fight.

Lee and other Black mayors, along with civil rights activists and lawmakers across the country are increasingly concerned about Trump singling out cities like Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, DC. All of them are led by Black mayors and all of those leaders are Democrats.

“We just can’t help but feel in some kind of way that we're being specifically profiled," said Van R. Johnson, president of the African American Mayors Association and mayor of Savannah, Georgia. “That’s not right. That’s not fair. We want our federal government to work with us. We’re just a phone call away.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/16/trump-city-takeover-plans-black-mayor-racial-profiling/85670358007/?tbref=hp

Because of course.

[Quiet Em]

1. Yup.

"Painting a false picture of the city's largest Black-majority cities, led by Black mayors, is part of the Trump administration's ongoing strategy to exploit racial distrust for political gain,’’

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2. He hates blacks, especially black women.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Especially UPPITY Black women

I mean, how DARE they run for political office, and how DARE they challenge his authoritah? That's why he wouldn't endorse Winsome Earle-Sears for Governor of VA, even though she's a RepubliQan. She's Black, and she might challenge him to a duel or something, you never know.

[Initech]

4. He's a racist piece of shit who's enabled and emboldened by racist pieces of shit to be the biggest racist piece of shit