Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the first Black man to be elected in the state, has stepped into the spotlight amid racial reckoning, decrying Trump's planned trip to Kenosha and personalizing the need for coherent statewide leadership at this moment.
"You have to got to be kidding me," he wrote on his personal Twitter page.The direct eight-word response highlights Barnes' relevance in this moment: As a 33-year old Democratic lieutenant governor, he is both politically and generationally more in-line with the activists leading the latest round of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in May and brought them back with a force after the shooting of Jacob Blake last week in Southeast Wisconsin.
"That ability to talk about issues of race and policing with familiarity was clear last week when, meeting in their locker room before a playoff game, the Milwaukee Bucks decided to go on strike because of the Blake shooting, setting off a cascade of strikes and postponements in the sports world.The Bucks are owned by billionaire Mark Lasry, one of the biggest donors to Democratic causes in the country.
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