Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faced vehement opposition when he travelled to a small Wisconsin town to try to convince residents to accept the construction of a data center on Saturday, new reporting reveals. New York’s Hell Gate reported that Adams gave a talk in the town of Wisconsin Rapids, situated in the central part of the state, as part of his new job as a “pitchman” for real…
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Here in Wizconzin we know what to do wit slick talkin carpitbaggers. spits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger
While I do not object to calling a Black New York power broker a carpetbagger like a lot of people do, I do think that the “spits” crosses a line given the history of what spitting in front of a Black man represented during the Jim Crow era, especially as a lot of those racist signifiers are back on the rise again