one more act of blatant racism

by Guest Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:36 pm

http://shareblue.com/donald-trump-kicks-off-mlk-weekend-by-slandering-civil-rights-hero-john-lewis/

There are many ways President-elect Donald Trump could have responded when Rep. John Lewis publicly stated that he doesn’t regard Trump as a “legitimate” president. Any number of those ways would have been respectful, including silence.

But Trump has publicly asserted that winning should inoculate him from criticism. So he was never going to be silent. It was just a question of how demeaning and objectionable his reaction would be.

On the Saturday morning before the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, we got the answer to that question:

Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to......

mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad!

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Further, for Trump to attack a person of Lewis’ stature and patriotism in this fashion, trying to silence him for any reason, and doing so by barking commands about what he should be doing, is an outrage. To then accuse a man who was nearly killed during the Civil Rights struggle of being “All talk, talk, talk — no action or results!” is an overt erasure of Lewis’ place in America’s history, as well as her present.

Trump then makes a thinly veiled appeal to the racial resentments among his supporters by invoking the specter of crime, wrongly assuming that a Black congressman’s district must be riddled with it.

As a matter of fact, Trump’s characterization of Georgia’s 5th District as “falling apart” doesn’t jibe with the fact that Lewis’ district has a higher high school graduation rate than the national or state averages, and is ranked 97th out of 434 on Gallup-Healthways’ most recent Well-Being Index. Lewis’ district was third among Georgia’s 14 districts in the well-being index. The last-place district is represented by Republican Tom Graves.

by Guest Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:38 pm

just coz it's mostly black, it "must be falling apart"

interesting comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5nydrv/donald_trump_kicks_off_mlk_weekend_by_slandering/

@realDonaldTrump: Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart...
John Lewis represents Georgia's 5th district, which includes 3/4 of Atlanta. While I don't have statistics for the 5th district exclusively, the Atlanta metro area is America's 8th largest economy, and contains America's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies.
@realDonaldTrump: ...not to mention crime infection...
While crime in Atlanta is a problem, between 2001 and 2009, Atlanta's crime rate dropped 40%, with homicides down 57%, rape down 72%, and violent crime overall down 55%.
@realDonaldTrump: All talk, talk, talk - no action or results.
Lewis' civil rights activism during the 60's resulted in him being beaten multiple times and even had his group's bus fire-bombed by the KKK. He was quoted as saying, "We were determined not to let any act of violence keep us from our goal. We knew our lives could be threatened, but we had made up our minds not to turn back."

by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:04 am

Orange Julius is an uncouth sack of pond scum in human form. My four year old niece knows more about civil rights history than Dummkopf Fuhrer.

by Propagandhi711 Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:49 pm

yeah, because someone participated in civil rights movement absolves them of any future responsibilities to their constituents and actually working towards what he was elected to work towards. some of these civil rights leaders should be ashamed of their failure in governance.

orange jesus's continuing idiocy not withstanding

by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:06 pm

Propagandhi711 wrote:yeah, because someone participated in civil rights movement absolves them of any future responsibilities to their constituents and actually working towards what he was elected to work towards. some of these civil rights leaders should be ashamed of their failure in governance.

orange jesus's continuing idiocy not withstanding

How about some sunlight?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/15/donald-trump/trumps-john-lewis-crime-invested-atlanta/

by Guest Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:07 am

this explains it a bit

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/holding-powerful-accountable/what-ever-happened-to-the-plans-for-atlanta-trump-towers_20160305010904987/68296506

Nine years ago a triumphant Donald Trump came to Atlanta to announce his plans to revolutionize the midtown Skyline. At the time, 11Alive cameras captured him showing off a model of Trump Towers Atlanta. The two massive buildings were going to sit on a prime piece of real estate and cost an estimated $300 million. But that dream never became a reality.

If you drive on Springs Street or West Peachtree through Midtown you see what could have been. Right now there's construction of a new 30 story tower not far from the Woodruff Art Center. Donald Trump thought it was a great location. "That is really a brillant design," he said back in 2007.

In April of that year, The Donald and his daughter Ivanka headlined a showcase of the Trump Towers Atlanta to much fanfare. They showed off models of two twin luxury condo buildings, one 47 stories, the other 38, with the distinctive Trump name right in the center.

PHOTOS | April 13, 2007 Donald Trump pushes Atlanta Trump Towers

The project's website, which is still up and running, boasts the units will have the ultimate standard of Trump luxury. When Trump spoke to us almost nine years ago, he raved about the city.

"Atlanta's just...they done a great job, an amazing job. We're just happy to be here. We also think we have the best site within Atlanta and that's very important," he said.

He and his daughter Ivanka said the time was right to build. "Now the time is right, the market is hot, the market is extremely strong," Ivanka Trump said.
But the market wasn't strong. Atlanta was hit hard by the recession, many projects failed.

By 2010, the planned towers were in foreclosure. The Trump organization says he was never the developer or the owner. Instead it was his name that was attached to the deal in hopes of making a big splash. Ultimately, that splash failed.

Those failures led to another company's success. Right now, construction is underway on a 350-unit building. It won't carry the distinctive Trump name.

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