Allow me to assure you, I literally never read the Daily Mail. For Americans not familiar with it, the Daily Mail is like the Fox News of Britain, only worse - even less factual (if you can believe that) and more obviously tabloid.
However, this popped up in my news feed - the only reason I can think of being because it's about Lexington?
Hahaha!
Oh, wait - they were serious.
That's right - the British rag tabloid, the Daily Mail, just called Lexington's mayor, Mayor Linda Gorton, "Woke" - then said that she personally shifted funding from CARES Act to "racial training!"
Hahahaha!
Oh, that's right - unless you live here, you wouldn't know why that's hilariously untrue.
Erm - first of all, Mayor Linda Gorton is a Republican - mostly a Trump-supporting one.
In fact, my husband has been in meetings with her for work, and let me tell you, she is pretty freakin' far from "woke," lol.
Now, she is a former registered nurse, so she's more compliant with Governor Beshear's social-distancing regulations than other Republicans are here, yes - which is why the Trump-supporting/alt-right Republicans aren't happy with her.
But woke?
Secondly - and most importantly - the money from the CARES Act regarding housing is going to eviction prevention, which includes public housing, and $120,000 of the $2 million was voted on and passed by city council to be set aside for implicit-bias training, not "race training" - in order ensure that public city employees who run public housing receive implicit-bias training (which includes race as a socioeconomic factor, but not exclusively) before doling out these funds first - whether Linda Gorton liked it or not.
Now, look, Trumpers/alt-righters - I'm sorry that you apparently still haven't read or don't understand U.S. or state constitutions, nor our county and city statutes, and thus believe our leaders (like Trump?) can and should have powers like a king, without some sort of checks and balances or oversight - but the truth is, they don't.
Our mayor simply doesn't have that kind of power, to single-handedly shift budget items without approval from city council, even if she wanted to (which I'm fairly certain she did NOT want to do this, at least at first) - there's a city council that proposes different aspects of, and approves, the budget!
Because implicit racial bias is baked into our culture, even with people who are not overtly racist, or even imagine themselves anti-racist.
For example - when money is "supposed" to be given based solely on need, right?
However, in reality, people often either semi or subconsciously make decisions based on who they consider the most deserving, rather than who has the greatest actual need - convincing themselves their decisions were made on "background history" versus what it actually is - socioeconomic/cultural ignorance and implicit bias.
I was educated in social work, believe me, I know about implicit bias - even among my fellow social work students, here, I'm sorry to say :(
But the truth is, none of us are immune to implicit bias, because we are all a product of this broken socioeconomic system and dysfunctional, sometimes even toxic culture, which is why we have to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves when making decisions like these.
Regardless, that woman wouldn't know "woke" from Wichita, believe me - and one can only hope that she, herself, takes the implicit-bias training the council approved.
So way to go, Daily Mail! Thanks for publishing complete BS again, contributing to the mess created by political propaganda, paranoia, aggression and violence by that are already at maximum capacity, here, in America.
But I guess that's easy for you to sit back in the U.K. and make up stories that incite aggression, considering you don't even live or work here, isn't it?
Ya know, I'm all for freedom of speech and press - and even give slack for ignorance and mistakes - but I am NOT for legally protecting conscious and malicious libel as "freedom of speech."
Seriously, enough is enough with legally protecting outright conscious libel for political gain and profit as "free speech."
And people that actually believe this crap, just because they see it printed on the internet - I can't decide if they're really that ignorant, stupid, and/or gullible, or if they know dang well it's not true and don't care, and just want to use it to manipulate fear in order to gain political power?
Considering the IQ level and dishonesty of the people I've seen that try to cite the Daily Mail as a "legitimate source" of press information, I'm going to go with a combination of both stupidity AND dishonesty lol.
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