A couple of months ago I drove down I-95 to the Bowie/ Mitchellville, Maryland area, in order to visit an old high school friend from Jamaica. We try to link up every couple of years to shoot the breeze and catch up on old times.
I recently found myself reflecting on that visit after reading what president-elect trump had to tweet about the congressional district of John Lewis.
There I was in a neighborhood with million dollar homes inhabited by doctors, lawyers, and business owners, and the majority, if not all of them, were black. (My friend happens to be a college professor and his wife is a physician.) Now granted, this particular part of Maryland is not a part of the inner city per say, but we all know what trump meant with his tweet. "Inner-city" means black people, and so if it's black people there has to be all these issues with their quality of life, etc.
He assumed, because John Lewis is black, his congressional district had to be "horrible" and full of "burning" buildings, crime, and poverty.
Of course trump is wrong about that. Lewis's 5th congressional district is in fact one of the most affluent in Georgia. And good for the paper of record in Atlanta for calling him out for his ignorance.
Ironically, the poverty that trump describes is becoming more and more of a suburban and rural issue.
If the incoming president wants to really help America he would do well to stop disparaging blacks and the neighborhoods they live in, and start making an effort to help all Americans---- including the poor rural voters who supported him.
There are now over 22 members of congress who will be skipping trump's inauguration, and they have districts as well. Will trump, with his think skin, now take time out of what should be a busy schedule to trash each of them and the people they represent as well? I certainly hope not. But if he does, none of us will be surprised.
*Pic from ajc.com
78 comments:
Falling apart? What a dumb ass statement from a dumb ass man!
Glad to hear that Representative Lewis' district is doing okay.
I think that the case for Trump being clueless is rock solid.
As far as some of your other observations. Yes, of course. There are pockets, (read small groups of people,) of poverty in the suburbs and neighborhoods of just about every major city and I would imagine smaller townships as well. Despite Newt Gingrich's noble efforts to blame all of this on the Obama presidency, it has been a well-known fact of life for at least the past twenty-five years that many are in need of assistance, be it EBT, SSD, unemployment insurance or otherwise. In my own community, it was thirty years ago that several churches banded together to form the Community Christian Service Agency to provide free food in the form of non-perishable goods to borderline families and individuals.
There I was in a neighborhood with million dollar homes inhabited by doctors, lawyers, and business owners, and the majority, if not all of them, were black.
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I'm VERY familiar with that part of metro DC. But the schools there are horrible considering the tax base for that area. Not surprisingly, ALL of the Black folks I knew/know that live there put their kids in private schools. ALL of them.
IMHO, Black folks in PG County seriously have their priorities backwards because where I lived in Montgomery County with a similar SES, the public schools are top notch!
"He assumed, because John Lewis is black, his congressional district had to be "horrible" and full of "burning" buildings, crime, and poverty."
That's a pretty easy assumption - it's about 30% black. That's way too black not to be rife with poverty and crime.
It's Yīshēng, Stalking B*cthes said...
"But the schools there are horrible considering the tax base for that area."
"Horrible schools" is a euphemism for black students.
It's not poverty, it's race.
The poorest white students do better on the SAT than the richest black students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/27/study-finds-race-growing-explanatory-factor-sat-scores-california
Since MLK hated homosexuals, make sure to solicit a Christian baker tomorrow. or just punch a fag.
Those nice white liberals always put MLK Blvd in the worst ghettos.
I am confused about this "Hidden Figures" movie, which seems to contradict coventional history.
In the 1960's, were Blacks being mercilessly oppressed or were they running the space program?
Trump has to uphold his bullshit narrative about black folks' lives being in the shitter to keep his slobbering hordes from turning on him, especially as he is about to make their lives measurably worse.
As long as they don't want him to release his tax returns, he knows he never has to be accountable to anyone to stay in office and get re-elected (something he's already gearing up for).
They start wondering if maybe he's not like them after all, and all of the sudden the punishment for opposing him that Republican congresscritters are living in terror of starts to evaporate, and his firewall against the far more able politicians he has been pissing off for two years starts to crumble.
So does he actually believe the rank, racist, bullshit he tweets?
Or does he have a pressing political need for the WWC voters he is about to bugger to have someone they feel superior to?
And, really, what's the fucking difference? President is a job to be done, any sort of virtue or role-model status is just a side benefit, and obviously not one he was elected to deliver.
He may seem stupid, and to a certain extent he probably is, but he learned PR from a genuinely evil, despicable, man named Roy Cohn, so it isn't ever safe to assume he can't harm you or the country.
-Doug in Oakland
dinthebeast said...
Trump has to uphold his bullshit narrative about black folks' lives being in the shitter
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Wait, isn't that Field Negro's narrative?
That was some good word, Doug!
Y'all whooteemoos need to get your boy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pit-bull-sexual-assault-charge_us_58795c93e4b09281d0eafe5c
Wait, he appointed one of the Kings of Comedy to his administration so he can't possibly be racist.
PX
I guess nobody bothered telling him that "screwed the pooch" was just an expression?
-Doug in Oakland
"I certainly hope not."
It won't kill you to be honest one time, Field. Nobody here believes you're fair; everyone knows you're dyed-in-the-wool leftist progressive partisan. You HOPE Trump does just that because it gives you copy-paste fodder from other sources who will rail on him about it.
There's nothing lost by admitting that. It's not like you're presenting any sort of fair take on Trump. You call him Fuhrer Trump and Herr Trump constantly (calling him HITLER) and you utterly refuse to capitalize his last name on some principle that, I suppose, you've convinced yourself is the weak-ass proper amount of disrespect to show. The cat's out of the bag, homes. You want Trump--probably need Trump--to be a colossal goof and failure. It's been 100% of your blog for months now.
Why be dishonest about it?
"In the 1960's, were Blacks being mercilessly oppressed or were they running the space program?"
Depends on the point one is trying to make:
1) America's systemically racist: We've been oppressed for over 400 years, and on and on it continues.
2) Blacks are not genetically predisposed to be less intelligent. In fact, blacks are even smarter: See our sporadic and exceedingly rare examples of intellectual accomplishments, within the framework of a white-constructed society.
No Josh, Field doesn't need Trump to be anything. He is a racist, ignorant tweeting, obnoxious, immature goof who needs attention. Hey, that sounds just like you Princess. Too bad your type has no ability for introspection, just like Trump. Actually you're more like his wife who has the need to flash her tits for attention
You are confused alright Help. You need lots of help. An education would be a good start.
What is it with racist/conservative assholes who have such binary thinking? The Help is the latest troll to suggest something is wrong with their brains. No room for nuance or complex thought whatsoever. No wonder a raging orange julius is now president.
Anyone with a set of ears and a functioning brain knows Trump is at best going to have problems as president. Do we even have to list the reasons? Either Josh is an idiot or has a need to argue for the sake of arguing.
Ooh, I like coming here for GOOD news! 22 Congresspeople, you say? Huzzahs and rightONS to John Lewis for leading the way.
This Drumf character is more like an internet troll than a clever demagogue. Too ignorant and reckless to hit any vulnerable targets. His threat about a tariff on German imports is a late example. He's too stupid to realize that his silly ideas re: imports could have dire consequences for us, that his targets could, and would, fight back.
So is Paul Anka going to sing at the Inaugural or not? And who, you Millennials may ask, is Paul Anka?
John Lewis got his skull busted marching for equal rights and whitey wingnuts have been lying about Lewis ever since.
Douchbag Donnie got busted for discrimination against the John Lewises of the world and has been lying about it ever since.
Every time Donnie Douchebag opens his mouth he gets busted for lying.
Whitey wingnuts can't abide All American heroes with less than pure white skin pigment. Wah phucking wah!
"John Lewis got his skull busted marching for equal rights"
It's about time to bust it again.
We need to start really treating blacks equally.
John Lewis needs to resign. Whatever effort he made years ago in the service of civil rights has now been more than offset by his time as a congressman in service to a party that has all but destroyed black America ever since. John Lewis is a disgrace and if he had any decency or self-awareness, he'd apologize to the American people and seek anonymity for the rest of his days.
Have a better day and remain blessed.
"Trump prefers protesters who don't get beaten" - Paul Krugman
Butthurt with Hershey squirts from the whitest wingnuts of the world
Dey all attack the American Black when the conferderate flags unfurled
Dey gladly lynch their mom/sister wench to appease their racist gods
Cuz all dey do is drink and screw and raise up whitey wingnut clods.
Gwinnett County Georgia racist whitey wingnut commissioner calls
Lewis a racist pig. One could easily argue it takes one to know one, but this is rank projection at best and sheer racist hate which is what Americans come to expect from racist, hating whitey wingnuts. Now that the racist maroon Drumpf has been annointed king racist pig, the little piglets are popping up all over to lend their squeals of indignation about having been led by a true Gentleman Potus named Obama. Gawd that must hurt butthurts, donut? Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!
What must hurt butthurts is having your twisted agenda repudiated by the people.
I hope you enjoy losing, because you are going to get a lot of it.
I Have a Dream that one day I won't have to spend hours commuting to work in Atlanta to avoid John Lewis's blighted district!
I don't wish Trump to fail as President because that would mean that America would fail. However, I do want Trump's shitty policies to fail, and for him to ultimately leave office in 2021. That's the kind of Trump failure that I want.
Party As of January 2017
Democratic Party 61
Republican Party 116
Independent 1
Vacancy 2
Total 180
Senate
Party As of January 2017
Democratic Party 17
Republican Party 38
Vacancy 1
Total 56
So John Lewis' district was drawn up by wingnuts, not Lewis. It isn't Lewis' fault the way his district was drawn. Another crybaby wingnut claim debunked.
I Have a Dream that one day Starbucks will come to Selma so I can enjoy a latte while dodging bullets and having a conversation about race!
Did anybody see Trump's tweet honoring Martin Luther King? What an ignorant buffoon.
Andrew Breitbart caught John Lewis lying about being called racial epithets by the Tea Party.
Butt Trumpet is just bitter and jealous that Lewis has a much much bigger dick.
Wow Lance. You have issues.
I Have a Dream that one day the black scientists, pilots and entrepreneurs of Tuskegee - who won WW2 and got America to the moon by the way - will no longer live in a food desert.
John Lewis lives in a world which doesn't exist anymore.
The world that we live in and that he helped create is a mess.
Enough is enough.
"John Lewis *started it*".
This, coming from the Birther-In-Charge?
Just remember this is standard right-wing strategy. Whatever evil they are doing, they accuse *you* of doing it.
The corollary being, it's easy to figure out what evil the right-wing is doing.
Just find the things they accuse good people of doing.
John Lewis just said the truth doesn't matter. Only the feeling. Only the "dream."
That's how we got the Selma of 2016.
The truth shall set you free.
"Don't perform at the inauguration and publicly denounce the new President or we'll bully you into silence" said those opposing fascism.
I'm a little groggy today. I always commemorate MLK Day Eve by beating a prostitute with a half-finished bottle of Courvoisier.
On MLK day we should all reflect on the fact that white people have no answer to black problems. We did our best and failed. Your turn.
"You can't be on both sides of the Edmund Pettus bridge" -Blue Gal from Crooks and Liars.
That's only true if you are still in one piece. -me.
-Doug in Oakland
The coolest, most accomplished POTUS EVER!!!
https://www.google.com/search?q=achievements+of+Obama&safe=active&espv=2&biw=1229&bih=589&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU--7Vv8fRAhVI72MKHTC4BogQ_AUIBygC#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=President+Obama+getting+out+of+car+Ebony+cover&imgrc=5qIX60wE5glaRM%3A
So VERY thankful to be one of MANY Black folks who are (mostly) living MLK's dream for Blacks!!!
Speaking of Black Success!!
http://blacksuccessfoundation.org/
From my family that is dominated by Engineers/Future Engineer:
https://www.nsbe.org/home.aspx
But I gotta rep the future Physicians!
http://www.snma.org/
And the first professional Black organization I ever joined after I became a Chemist back in the day:
http://www.nobcche.org/
We're going to have some Black people magic on THIS MLK day!!!
"The last week the US will have an Ivy League educated FLOTUS"
The last week the US will have an Affirmative Action failure FLOTUS.
I Have a Dream that one day a black woman of marginal intellect and substandard character can occupy a space in an institution of higher learning for 40 years without ever having to actually do anything.
Anyone else LOVING that multiracial graphic on Google pages???
Multiracial magic!!
It cast doubt, not on CNN, but on the intelligence community and what they're doing exactly," Hemingway said. "Obviously they're leaking like sieves in an ongoing war against the president [elect]. So BuzzFeed kind of pulled the curtain back, showing how the intelligence community -- particularly the more partisan brass, not the intelligence officers who do the good work -- how they use the media to punish or destroy their political enemies."
"That is a very important journalistic story, and one that I think should be covered as journalists are sort of cooperating with this intelligence community campaign against the president [elect]," she said. "As we take this information from them we should also apply skepticism."
Asked if she thought intelligence officials were pushing these stories, Hemingway said U.S.Director of National Intelligence James "Clapper is a guy who lied to Congress about whether he was spying on them, he lied under oath about whether he was collecting information on hundreds of millions of Americans. We've had the intelligence community get in trouble for some political decisions about releasing information on Syria, creating an echo chamber to push the Iran deal. So as we take this information from them, we should also be applying skepticism and that’s something that’s not just right now but really going back decades. It's a lesson we keep failing to learn."
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/16/hemingway-journalists-should-be-skeptical-of-information-from-intelligence-officials/#.WHztEAwQjQQ.twitter
"that speaks good English"
Not sure how irony manages to escape the supposed multi-STEM degree holder so often, but it sure is funny as fuck to watch the epitome of ignant-ass weave-wearing baby mamas expose itself on the daily. :)
Thanks for the LULZ. Yous speaks English so good!
This beautiful Muslim is one of the leaders for the women's march on Washington, DC:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-this-womens-march-organizer-has-made-activism-her-life_us_587d1350e4b0b3c7a7b25a68
The very talented Viola Davis, Golden Globe winner in 2017!!
http://ew.com/awards/2017/01/08/golden-globes-2017-viola-davis/
The success of Hidden Figures can NOT be denied!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hidden-figures-box-office-multiple-female-leads_us_587cd820e4b0b3c7a7b20bc5?
"Not sure how irony manages to escape the supposed multi-STEM degree holder so often, but it sure is funny as fuck to watch the epitome of ignant-ass weave-wearing baby mamas expose itself on the daily."
LOL. It sure as hell is.
I'm boycotting the inauguration but not because of any thing John Lewis has to say. Green cartoon frogs with a nick name of PePe have been banned from attending. This is a blatant violation of the cartoon frog's rights and hopefully he will file a lawsuit against the GOVMENT so he can be present at all future inaugurations/Balls/dances/roast/benefits and awards ceremonies.
#GREENCARTOONFROGSMATTER
"I'm a little groggy today. I always commemorate MLK Day Eve by beating a prostitute with a half-finished bottle of Courvoisier."
Who told you this? The cross-dresser who was running the FBI at the time?
I wonder if he liked the golden-showers like your newly elected leader?
"The last week the US will have an Affirmative Action failure FLOTUS."
Yes, next week we will have one who posed naked in magazines and worked here illegally.
LOL. Field is a homophobe and a slut-shaming prude.
but it sure is funny as fuck to watch the epitome of ignant-ass weave-wearing baby mamas expose itself on the daily. :)
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And it sure is funny to see teenaged girls who need to show their tits for attention expose themselves everyday. Now go cry or write in your diary Josh.
Josh is upset that the boy she likes won't go out with her even though she promised to put out. That is so sad. No wonder she cries here and shows her tits everyday. Don't worry honey, you'll find the right boy one day and he'll love you for you. Oh who are we kidding, maybe you can find someone who wears a helmet and drools just like you sweety.
And lied about being a college graduate too!
Yisheng lied about being a college graduate too!
"There I was in a neighborhood with million dollar homes inhabited by doctors, lawyers, and business owners, and the majority, if not all of them, were black."
So... in a "horribly racist" America, exactly how do Black people get the income required to afford million-dollar homes?
Especially when your typical doctors are on the level of competence of Conrad Murray and Kermit Gosnell?
Are you regretting Affirmative Action yet? You should be.
"granted, this particular part of Maryland is not a part of the inner city per say"
It's "per se", you clown. It's Latin for "in itself", which anyone truly educated in legal jargon should know... but you don't. You only pretend to your position and education.
"He assumed, because John Lewis is black, his congressional district had to be "horrible" and full of "burning" buildings, crime, and poverty."
No district full of anything else would elect a moron like John Lewis. Or Hank Johnson. Or Sheila Jackson Lee. Or put an Otis Mathis on the local school board. Gee, isn't this fun?
Actually you want to know what's fun? White idiots like James who elect mouth breathing morons like Trump or Rep. Louis Gohmert who make Rep. Lewis look like a genius. Tell you what James, you try to figure out why anyone here would believe you live in a million dollar home and have a 150 IQ and get back to us.
150 IQ bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Ya bald cat fucker!
"There is nothing a white man with a penny hates more than a N****r wit a nickle."
James, good for you for spotting that malapropism.
And since you seem to like Latin, here are two more words for you: Invidentia, and Res Ipsa Loquitur. ;)
Now go on and put those good Google skills to work.
"LOL. Field is a homophobe and a slut-shaming prude."
You trolls will really have to make up your minds. One day I am Obama's secret Gay lover, and the next a "homophobe". Go figure.
"the poverty that trump describes is becoming more and more of a suburban and rural issue."
It's been an issue in rural America. WTF you talkin'? White people are the best ever at being poor.
Since you folks love going back to slave times so often, pretending that you were damaged by it and under lash and rod, I'm sure you understand that only 2% of all settlers/colonists/Americans owned slaves, and that the overwhelming majority of white southerners disavowed slavery because they were third-world-level poor and couldn't get jobs because you cannot compete with free, forced labor. Millions upon millions and millions more white people have lived in generational poverty than black people, from the time we were just colonies to modern times. But because white corporate media makes it seem as if only blacks are poor--while pushing the idea that all blacks are victims, so why blame Trump for thinking so?--and that all whites are privileged, of course you selfish victim cultists don't understand these things.
The difference: Dense areas of black poverty 100% of the time equate to over-representations of crimes from petty larceny and auto theft to assault, rape and murder. Poor white areas, while obviously containing more crime than rich white areas, do not come anywhere close to the crime levels in poor black areas. Every inner city full of blacks is dangerous. In a poor mountain holler, the biggest threat to your safety is likely a bobcat or some dumb-ass redneck shooting an arrow up into the air because he's backwoods fucking retarded.
There's this meme in America, pushed primarily by well-to-do liberal whites, that being "white" means you live in a cul de sac or some other gated community and go to a great, all-white school and have the red carpet rolled out for your every step. This is not reality. Nobody gives a fuck about poor whites in the Oppression Olympics, and it's primarily because the American mainstream denies their existence, except for the adjoining meme of dumb white racist inbred hick southerners who hate dem niggers.
It's hilarious that the only time black people decide to even admit that white people struggle too is when a white billionaire stereotypes every black neighborhood as poor. LOL Then, suddenly, it's "Wait...others are poor too!" The only other time blacks ever acknowledge non-privileged poor whites is when someone points out black welfare queens or speaks about the negative stereotype of black males not wanting to work. Then, suddenly, it's "Wait...white people are on welfare too!"
This is the epitome of intellectual dishonesty. You know a thing is an issue, but it only exists when it's politically convenient to exist.
(And LOL @ the new qualifications of your House Nigs to be simply speaking in person with Donald Trump. Much better to sit behind a computer screen and call him Hitler. That's how progressives are supposed to roll! If you're not calling him "trump" or Hitler, you're not FNB!)
Res Ipsa Loquitur, how cool to see something here I learned in my medical ethics class. ;)
Learning circular reasoning and bare assertion in a "medical ethics class." For 99.999% of the world, makes zero sense. For Yiscunt, it fits right in.
Here we go, Josh showing her tits again. Great now she flashes us with the farse white people are great at being poor. Who gives a fuck when the government is great at working to help poor whites while ignoring poor negroes. Land grant colleges for whites ? Check. Free land for whites in Oklahoma and the west? Check. GI Bill? Check. Low interest loans to build on free land for whites only? Check.
You would think someone who is supposed to be intelligent like Josh would know how many government programs like the WPA were created to help whites while negroes were barred. What an asshole she is.
Hmmmm, Oklahoma land rush opened Indian territory to whites. Gee, whites favored at the expense of people of color. Yeah, whites are good at being poor but they are better at holding others down. James Crow? Tulsa massacre? Nah, whites would never prevent others from succeeding. Fuck you Josh! Go somewhere else and show your tits!
Mr Field, I am quite surprised you haven't been crucified for being a lawyer. Not that many years ago lawyers were the lowest form of vermin on earth according to right wing nut jobs.( just Lib lawyers of course) If it wasn't for the NAACP and ACLU, wingnuts could have run roughshod over every POC in America.
As it was, dumbass dubya surrounded hisself withpersonal lawyers to protect his baby pink ass from jail time or the death penalty. Hiz lawyers gave him the go ahead to create some infamous crimes against humanity with impunity.
"And since you seem to like Latin, here are two more words for you: Invidentia, and Res Ipsa Loquitur. ;)"
Why do you think anyone, save a few sick in-duh-viduals like Rachel Dolezal and Sean King, would be the slightest bit envious of you? You owe everything you have to racial preferences (starting with your father's admittance to Michigan State), and those are on the chopping block.
"Tell you what James, you try to figure out why anyone here would believe you live in a million dollar home and have a 150 IQ and get back to us."
I never said million-dollar, I said upwards of half a million dollars. That is how much the government values it for property taxes. I have the same level of evidence for my IQ. If you really think I'm lying, feel free to bet against me. Your minimum is $100k, 2:1 odds.
"I am quite surprised you haven't been crucified for being a lawyer."
Field claims he serves a mostly-White clientele. In Philadelphia. When most of the criminal defendants in Killy are Black. What more do you need to prove Black Privilege?
Here is what a White lawyer says about practicing criminal defense law in a city in the South.
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