Baltimore GOP congressional candidate Kim Klacik turned
heads on Monday when she released a new campaign video that dared to tell
people in her city something her opponents wouldn't: the truth.
Black Lives Don't Matter to Democrats
"Do you care about Black lives?" Klacik asks at
the start of her video. "The people that run Baltimore don't." In
stilettos and with conviction, Klacik then invites viewers to go on a walk with
her into one of Baltimore's many dilapidated, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
In the video, Klacik passes an almost endless vista of
boarded-up homes, shattered windows, and urban detritus: an all-too-common
sight throughout Baltimore. Far from completely abandoned, these rowhouses are
home to thousands of Baltimoreans, including children, and are the location of
hundreds of homicides per year. The urban decay born out of poverty and
desperation has spread like cancer in recent years, as those with any means
have packed up and headed out of the city.
Klacik made national headlines last summer when she toured
homes that were crumbling in West Baltimore. The videos she took of the filth
and decay caught the attention of President Trump, who started a now-infamous
spat with Rep. Elijah Cummings.
"This is Baltimore, the real Baltimore," Klacik
said in the video. "This is the reality for black people every single day:
crumbling infrastructure, abandoned homes, poverty, and crime. Baltimore has
been run by the Democrat Pary for 53 years. What is the result of their decades
of leadership?"
She then went on to recount the staggering crime and
poverty statistics the city has become notorious for.
"Baltimore is one of the top five most dangerous
cities in America," she said. "The murder rate in Baltimore is 10
times the U.S. average. In 2019, Baltimore recorded 348 homicides. As the city
loses residents at a staggering rate, the murder rate in 2020 has stayed on
pace to match or eclipse the number from last year. So far in 2020, 208 people
have been murdered.
The city of Baltimore, as Klacik pointed out, is 60
percent Black. Nearly all homicides in Baltimore are Black victims. She then
pointed to the obvious culprit, the one almost no one dares to name.
"Do you believe Black lives matter? I do," she
says. "The Democrat Party has betrayed the Black people of Baltimore. If
the politicians walk the street like I do, they would see exactly how their policies
and corruption affects us. But they don't want to see it. They don't want you
to see this."
Residents of Baltimore then tell Klacik that the Black
Lives Matter movement that calls for defunding the police is not the right move
to protect Black lives.
"I had three sons killed in Baltimore City, and I
think if we defund the police officers it's going to be worse than that,"
one resident said.
"The worst place for a Black person to live in
America is a Democrat-controlled city," Klacik said. "It's 2020, name
a blue city where Black people's lives have gotten better. Try. I'll
wait."
Klacik then says the part every Democrat wishes nobody
would say out loud.
"Democrats think Black people are stupid," she
said. "They think they can control us forever, that we won't demand
better, and that we'll keep voting for them forever – despite what they've done
to our families and our communities."
"I'm running for Congress because I actually care
about Black lives. All Black lives matter. Our communities matter. Baltimore
matters. And Black people don't have to vote Democrat." Klacik's video now
has just under four million views and has garnered many new, high-profile supporters.
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