Muriel Bowser Gets A Reality Check

Washington, D.C., is a funny place.

At once, it is a city soaked with wealth, a treasure chest of federal goodies. Its historic buildings are beautiful. Its wide streets are Parisian. It’s an enclave of wealthy liberals. But it is also, in the seediest areas at least, a cesspool, with homeless people stalking the streets and teenage carjackers running amok. Poorly managed. Unsafe. The further you walk from the White House toward the northeast neighborhoods, the more likely you are to step over shattered car windows on the sidewalk. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)

Yet, many of its residents, seemingly detached from reality, still believe in the liberal ideology that contributed to the city’s rapid demise, namely Black Lives Matter and all the radical crime policies its activists have pushed since 2020, the peak of wokeness.

A spokesperson for Mayor Bowser confirmed Black Lives Matter Plaza will be renamed. It comes a day after a GOP congressman introduced a bill to force Bowser to change the name or else lose certain federal funding for D.C. https://t.co/BKFUI5tx1j

— NBC4 Washington (@nbcwashington) March 4, 2025

Which is why it’s so satisfying that the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, is getting a reality check, if a bit belated. After Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced legislation that would withhold “certain apportionment funds” from D.C. if it didn’t rename BLM Plaza, Bowser’s office confirmed Tuesday the name will be nixed and the mural replaced with a design by local schoolchildren. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde Plans To Give Control Of DC Back To Congress, Wants To Pave Over BLM Plaza)

Bye-bye, BLM. The tumultuous summer of 2020 and race-rioting and virtue-signaling have never felt further away and more irrelevant than it does now.

Ultimately, the victory in having BLM Plaza renamed may be as empty as the intention of putting it there in the first place. Will seeing the mural erased actually change how the city is governed?

Maybe not. Probably not. But then again, you still love to see it.

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