I was recently strolling in the beautiful Smale Park, along the Ohio River. I stopped at one of the swinging benches overlooking the river to have a seat and enjoy the view. The sun was shining. The wind was blowing. It was so relaxing I felt like I could fall asleep.
Then suddenly the shrill and pompous voice of city council member Alicia Reese blared over some speakers behind me. It was a recording playing on a 20 or 30 minute loop. The recording was about how proud Alicia Reese was to have the “Black Music Walk of Fame” built outside the new riverfront music venue. The noise was so loud and obnoxious. I couldn’t believe someone thought this was a nice addition to the river front vibe. The experience was symbolic of how woke culture in general is like an unnatural and abrasive noise disturbing all that is good in society.
Alicia Reese secured $8.5 million from federal Covid handouts back in 2020 to have this race-based plaza built. I am Glad to see pandemic funny money went to good use. The gesture was nothing more than a pathetic virtue signal by Reese. Like many black leftists, she is notorious for putting race first in her political decisions. This is merely a moral cover for her shady deals in the past that have selfishly benefited her family.
Nevertheless, the plaza is a nice looking addition to the music venue. The loud speakers need to go, but the other aspects of the design are fun. It has granite stars in the ground with the names of black musicians from south west Ohio. It also has a few big screens that you can interact with and learn about the black music. Unfortunately, the charm of the plaza is over shadowed by the overt racism of it’s theme.
Why can’t it be a music walk of fame for all musicians, rather than just the blacks ones? This exemplifies how thoroughly inundated with Marxist woke culture our society is. So much so that in a politically correct corporate setting, a group of decision makers can be presented with an idea to do something solely for the benefit of one race, and not one person in the room has the courage to say this is wrong!
From a young age, the general public was taught to associate black Americans with victimhood. So when proposals like this plaza are put forward, the people in charge think they are actually on the side of good. Look around downtown Cincinnati. You will see the massive Black History Museum, the Black Lives Matter mural outside city hall, the Black musicians mural across from the convention center, and more. We had a black president 16 years ago now. Blacks are clearly not victims, but rather special citizens put on a pedestal by virtually all of the powerful institutions in the country.
The oligarchs at the top of the power hierarchy push these divisive race based initiatives. It is a divide and conquer tactic. The cultural revolution in China and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia used similar tactics. The USA is under it’s own color revolution, instigated by our own federal agencies. That is why idiots like Alicia Reese dedicate monuments to only black people with nothing but praise from the oligarchs’ media. This plaza is nothing more than another tribute to the agenda of the oligarchs and an ego trip for Alicia Reese. It should be for musicians of all races. The people who contributed to this should be ashamed.