Charlottesville mayor Nikuyah Walker on the George Floyd protests and how she’s continuing to “unmask the illusion” in her own city.
When Nikuyah Walker was elected mayor of Charlottesville in November 2017, the normally staid southern city, which is home to the University of Virginia, was still reeling. That August, a widely publicized Unite the Right rally had crowded the town, attended by some 600 torch-wielding white nationalists protesting the removal of a Confederate statue.
Now a few months into her second term, Walker has continued to make the city’s disenfranchised her main priority, pushing for better low-income housing and a higher minimum wage. If she’s made some of her socially liberal, fiscally conservative cohort uneasy in the process, it’s been well worth it. “Even if you don’t necessarily like me or the things I say…you can’t deny that I know what I’m doing,” Walker says. “deny it means that you are not for what you say you’re for.
I feel two major lines of thinking have recently emerged: One says that the way to fix systemic racism is by replacing the people in power with people of color. The other says that racism is the white person’s responsibility to fix. Where do you stand?
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