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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson opened his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday with a critique of Baltimore, MD, a city which maintains a consistently high murder rate along with disturbingly low literacy rates, calling it a “Haiti in the Mid-Atlantic.”
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott was incensed over the assessment and took to Twitter to show it.
“We don’t have any room for racist vitriol in our city or time for comments that don’t contribute towards building a better Baltimore,” tweeted Scott, 37. “I remain focused on reversing the deep-rooted systemic inequities that have plagued our communities for longer than Tucker Carlson has been alive.”
Carlson revisited his Tuesday monologue on Wednesday’s installment and defended the segment.
We don’t have any room for racist vitriol in our city or time for comments that don’t contribute towards building a better Baltimore. I remain focused on reversing the deep-rooted systemic inequities that have plagued our communities for longer than Tucker Carlson has been alive. https://t.co/jEcSZAtF1i
— Brandon M. Scott (@MayorBMScott) February 2, 2022
“Last night we dared to tell you about the ongoing tragedy of the city of Baltimore, one of the great American cities,” Carlson said on Wednesday. “A city filled with people in total misery, a city with people being murdered and children who can’t read.”
Baltimore City Public Schools deflected and placed blame for the dismal literacy rate on the COVID-19 pandemic after Carlson singled out Patterson High School, where 77 percent of students were reading at an elementary level.
They stated on their website:
“i-Ready scores do not provide a complete or final picture of student performance,” they said, in reference to a site that tracks students. “City Schools uses i-Ready to provide checkpoints on student progress during the school year. This was the first in-person checkpoint for students at Patterson High School after 18 months of disruption caused by the pandemic.”
Carlson did not back away from his criticism of how the city of Baltimore is being governed.
“The kids can’t read, more people are being murdered in Baltimore than ever in its history, people have allowed this to happen,” he said.
“They didn’t like it when we called them out for it last night.”
Carlson was joined by network colleague Trace Gallagher during the segment.
“It is a disgrace letting black people die and calling me racist if I pointed it out,” Carlson said. “That is not going to work anymore, pal.”
Trace Gallagher remarked, “What they are saying here is that you didn’t do your homework,” then added, “But you were saying last night is that the test scores had dropped dramatically, and the Baltimore schools came back with this, saying that test scores don’t define all the students.”
Gallagher continued, “But they failed to explain what does define the students, considering that test scores are a widely used barometer of students’ ability. They went on to say you criticize them for the limiting or stopping of arresting students who commit crimes, and their response to that was they arrest students who commit crimes when it’s appropriate, but again they didn’t define what exactly is appropriate.”
Along with students sinking further into the abyss of illiteracy, Carlson revisited the rampant crime that appears to have become a fact of daily life in Baltimore and other metropolitan cities where dangerous and illogical policies that exacerbate crime are in place.
The city reported 32 murders so far in 2022, according to the Daily Mail.
“That’s the deadliest January in Baltimore in nearly 50 years and remember, 50 years ago, Baltimore was almost twice as big as it is now,” Carlson said.
The city’s population shrank from nearly one million residents in the 1970s to about 580,000 in 2020, according to the U.S. Census.
“Half the city is left. So Baltimore is far worse off than it has ever been in its history.”
Carlson concluded that “Baltimore is exactly what happens when you apply Jen Psaki’s ideas to governing.”
“Baltimore is a city run by people who fervently believe in the equity agenda and consider gender studies a legitimate academic discipline,” he said. “In Baltimore, pretty much everyone in charge is black, yet it’s a matter of religious faith that the main thing holding the city back is white racism.”
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Frank (Chip) Webster is a musician and composer, former teacher of percussion and U.S. Army Infantry veteran. He holds a degree in English from Arizona State University.
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