Articles In This Issue

• Crowley Called Beer Gardens and Golf ‘Predominantly White’ and Blamed ‘Systemic Racism’ - Justin Phillips

• Woke Progressivism Is a Public Nuisance - David Blaska

• White House Press Room - A.F. Branco

Crowley Called Beer Gardens and Golf ‘Predominantly White’ and Blamed ‘Systemic Racism’

Justin Phillips, The Heartland Post - September 23, 2026

David Crowley announced on social media that county golf courses, the marina, and beer gardens were not just amenities. They were a racial problem.

On Dec. 13, 2021, the Milwaukee County executive posted on X that parks funding created “a very real conflict between generating $$$ & racial equity.” Then he named the offenders. “Revenues often come from activities that those with discretionary funding can afford, like golf, the marina, and beer gardens,” Crowley wrote. “These activities are traditionally and predominately supported by white users. This racial inequity is born from a history of systemic racism & injustice.”

The comments were not a stray aside. They sat inside Crowley’s larger racial-equity project. Milwaukee County declared racism a “public health crisis.” Crowley’s budgets pushed a Racial Equity Budget Tool that told departments to weigh spending by race. He has kept that frame into 2026, tying volunteer events to the same declaration.

The irony is sitting in the parks’ balance sheet. Those “predominantly white” activities are what keep the system from collapsing.

Woke Progressivism is a Public Nuisance

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - September 18, 2026

How fitting is it that Brenda Konkel’s Social Justice Center is being called a public nuisance! Home to congeries of dependency enabling non-profits, many of them taxpayer subsidized, the SJC was the command center for the hostile takeover of city streets to valorize the Exceptional Corey Ruiz, a career criminal killed trying to murder Madison police.

It is from the Social Justice Center that the likes of Shadayra and Amelia flooded the Common Council 08-24-26 with calls condemning the City for re-opening Willy and Baldwin Streets two weeks earlier. Hosts the cheering section for the Blame-the-Police monitor.

If we weren’t First Amendment near-absolutists, we would close the Social Justice Center on its late-stage Woke progressivism alone. But the Werkes does not shout down stupid speech; we counter it. (With our own stupid speech, a cynic would say.) The City is acting against the Social Justice Center as a public nuisance because of the visible dysfunction resulting from its policies.

“Fights and other disturbances, camping, public urination and defecation, and suspected illegal drug use — some of it by employees at the center.” So reports ace news reporter Chris Rickert. Over 300 police calls for service, 20 arrests, and 47 charges during the first eight months of the year.

White House Press Room

A.F. Branco, Creators Syndicate - September 23, 2026