Baltimore Deserves Better: When Loyalty Becomes Blindness

Mayor Brandon M. Scott updated his profile picture. Baltimore is so proud of this Mayor who keeps them in poverty and their city looking like a war zone. But they don't know nothing different, sad! They love the mayors picture but when I look at it all I see is When I look at our current mayor, I don’t see leadership. I see a man invested in the downfall of a city he’s sworn to serve for personal gain , except for one place— Park Heights , where he grew up. That’s the only place he seems to care about. The rest of Baltimore? He’s left it to rot. But Baltimore loves him. Why? Because we’ve never known anything different . Because our loyalty has become our curse . Most people don’t even vote. And the ones who see clearly? They’ve stopped believing their vote matters . The last time we saw anything resembling meaningful progress was under Stephanie Rawlings-Blake . Since then, it’s been downhill—fast. Our current mayor has shut down local voices and opened the ...