Baltimore mayor faces racist attacks after bridge collapse

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott talks with the media after a cargo ship ran into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024.Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott talks with the media after a cargo ship ran into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024.Shortly after Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in the middle of the night, Mayor Brandon Scott arrived on the scene to deliver remarks on the state of affairs.

But as the clip of the young, Black mayor's speech circulated online, many critics on the right shifted the focus from the content of Scott's words or the economic and infrastructure implications of a bridge crumbling in a major metropolitan area, to attacks on Scott's race. While there is a decades-long history of institutions implementing policies to seek fairness for minorities, the phrase DEI grew in popularity, and controversy, particularly after the 2020 murder of George Floyd and subsequent national conversations about the way non-white Americans are treated compared to their white counterparts.

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