“President Trump said that he planned on cleaning up the city. We’re going to help him do that.”
So says Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who has an unexpected and courageous idea for exactly how Washington can be cleaned up: he wants to pave over Black Lives Matter (BLM) Plaza. That’s right: in a city full of cowards, appeasers, and people who will do anything for a vote, Clyde is daring to stake out this position despite almost certainly knowing what kind of trouble it will bring him to do so.
There is just no doubt about it. If Clyde goes ahead with his proposal, he will be called a racist. And a white supremacist. And a fascist. He may, however, have grown inured to that possibility by the fact that leftists have been calling patriots racists, white supremacists, and fascists for years now, no matter what they did or how mild their dissent was from the left’s agenda. Once you’ve been called ugly names a thousand times, or ten thousand, they begin to lose their sting.
And so Clyde, according to a Thursday report in the Daily Caller, is not only calling for the paving-over of the divisive and insulting tribute to Marxism and hatred that BLM Plaza really is, but he also “plans on introducing legislation to overturn home rule in the nation’s capital during the next Congress.” Clearly, here is a guy who doesn’t shy away from the issues that make lesser public servants quake in their boots.
BLM Plaza has been across the street from the White House for four years now. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser put it there in order to taunt Donald Trump, who was, of course, at that time the occupant of the house across the street. The city and the nation had just suffered through the George Floyd riots, and it was the period in which cities were putting up statues and murals in honor of the career criminal and drug addict who had supposedly been a victim of racist police violence.
Bowser wanted to tie Trump forever to the “systemic racism” that allegedly infected the country, creating an ongoing reminder of the claim that supporting Bad Orange Man was tantamount to donning KKK robes and burning crosses on the front lawns of terrified black Americans. The Daily Caller notes that “millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to shut down the entire street, install barricades to prevent cars from driving down it and paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ in massive yellow font on the pavement. The street’s name was also officially changed to Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest.”
It’s unclear why Bowser didn’t dismantle this massive monument to spurious victimhood when Old Joe Biden became president; after all, he is ostensibly non-racist and presumably doesn’t need a gargantuan yellow reminder that black lives matter on the street outside his home. Nonetheless, BLM Plaza remained and is presumably now a permanent feature of our nation’s capital. Unless, that is, Rep. Clyde’s initiative succeeds.
And it should succeed. This has nothing to do with actual racism, but with reversing the false claims of victimhood that have now become all too common in American society, and restoring a sense of the reality that America is not actually a racist society, but one in which racial minorities enjoy the same rights as everyone else.
Clyde says of his call to dismantle BLM Plaza: “I would think that that is something that we should do. You have a street that is blocked off. It should not be blocked off. You have businesses that are negatively affected by it and they shouldn’t be negatively affected by it. The Black Lives Matter movement in and of itself should be All Lives Matter, not just Black Lives Matter, but All Lives Matter. So in that respect, I don’t agree with this. And the fact that the city spent almost $5 million on it is an incredible waste of money. And then to maintain it, another waste of money. So, honestly, the street needs to go back to the way it was, which is a public thoroughfare and the Black Lives Matter wording needs to be paved over.”
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Yes. Oh, and also, BLM is a Marxist organization whose leaders, after the manner of Soviet party apparatchiks, squandered millions in donations on luxuries for themselves. Clyde also pointed out that Washington is “not a defund-the-police nation or a defund-the-police city, but they are a defund-the-police organization. And that is wrong. So we don’t need to be honoring it. I mean, think if you are an MPD officer and you go by that every solitary day, what does that tell you? This city hates me.” Exactly.
Andrew Clyde is right. As our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. should welcome all Americans, all of whose lives matter. Pave over BLM Plaza.
