“New Mayor, New Ideas”

Yeah, like the always new idea that world is filled with pink people, except for one little black girl who didn’t even make it on this particular poster. I guess she only fits on billboards. “Where’s Jordi?” was one of his quirky-dork campaign slogans—what about Mohammad? Because he’s not anywhere to be found on this Stepford collage. Is this the citizen profile that our new mayor thinks represents BCN? Vaya, and he’s a socialist! Probably one of the most disturbing things about this campaign image is that what’s lacking paints a blaringly offensive portrait of “us” and “them,” you, sweet guiri, falling into the “them” category whether you’re pink or not. Of course there is no real reason to address a multi-national electorate because that just simply isn’t the reality in BCN, but come on! He’s supposed to be in touch with the city, and this city is teeming with a lot of different skin colors other than pink.

So, where’s Jordi now? In the Ajuntament, that’s where.