Option 1. A mayor appears before the camera. He is the one from Baltimore, 39 years old. He talks at dawn, almost fresh out of bed, about the ship colliding with the bridge. He leaves aside the wardrobe of the boring elegance of his position and today he takes the first thing that warms him. Thus, he is wearing a college-inspired jacket, that kind of piece related to American high school sports teams. Watch Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf. Eddy Murphy in Super Detective in Hollywood. There he is, that type of garment.
There will be time to study the causes of the accident, he claims, and insists that attention must be focused on “the people, the lives, the souls.” “There are people in the water that need to be removed and that's the only thing we should be talking about,” he adds.
Option 2. The mayor of Baltimore who appears as soon as he has taken off the sheets says the same thing. But, on the contrary, it is impeccable. In a hurry, and despite the tragedy, he has found the moment to choose whether to wear a blue suit or a black suit. Tie, button-down shirt. Gomina.
Well, the majority in his, above all – than by the facts. The psychopathy of Patrick Bateman.
Knowing how to be there, on this occasion, is option 1, not 2. Scott, for addressing his citizens in a manner consistent with the situation, was hit by spikes in nets. A detail of nothing: Scott is African-American: “It is the third most dangerous city in the US and rightly so if the mayor already seems that way.” “He looks more like a gang member than a mayor.” “He looks like he came out of a Bronx drug house.” “[One] of the thousands of junkies in the city.” “He has taken advantage of the provisional third degree that the prison board granted him to make statements about the collapse of the bridge.”
Someone is trying to highlight the prevailing racism and classism. “Fetterman shows up in shorts and is ‘a man of the people,’ but Mayor Scott shows up in a Baltimore City letterman jacket and this shit comes out,” @DrDavidInDC complains. He is referring to Democratic US Senator John Fetterman, who comes to the Senate in sweatshirts and shorts. Another nothing detail: he is white.
People die and in X the “is this the mayor?” prevails. “There are people in the water that we have to get out and that is the only thing we should be talking about,” the mayor had said. Well go.
