Donald trump twitter john lewis11/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Time and again, he conflates black residents with the “inner city,” and characterizes inner cities as a lawless, crumbling dump - not to mention a place where all votes are fraudulently cast. His way of expressing sympathy for black America is to lament the fact that they live in crime-ridden hellholes due to the supposed neglect of politicians like John Lewis. This is how we feel about down here in the GA 5th, a district Donald Trump thinks the congressman is failing #Defendthe5th /qZUgrGBBtc- Jeb Boone January 14, 2017īut this is the typical way Trump talks about black communities. And while the city has a relatively high violent crime rate, it is almost certainly not as dangerous as Donald Trump (who routinely claims that America’s murder rate is at a 50-year high, and claims that black Americans “can’t walk out the door without getting shot”) thinks it is. Atlanta is the heart of the black middle class in America. Par for the course with Trump, this argument bears little relation to the facts. The argument Trump is making, though not in so many words, is: Well, John Lewis, what about black-on-black crime? As far as Trump is concerned, Lewis’s opinions can be safely ignored because his congressional district (which includes most of the city of Atlanta, as well as some of its most affluent suburbs) is supposedly “falling apart,” “crime-infested,” “burning.” If Lewis really cared about America, he’d fix that problem first. The three tweets, taken together, make it clear: Trump’s problem with Lewis is that he’s not focusing on the issues Trump thinks he should care about. Trump’s tweets weren’t exactly accusing Lewis of not having accomplished anything - even though that’s what the “all talk, talk, talk - no action or results” made it sound like. Trump’s tweets were essentially “what about black-on-black crime?” But the way that Trump attacked Lewis - and the way the president-elect has talked about black communities, politicians, and activists throughout his campaign and pre-presidency - is part of a pattern of delegitimizing dissent in general, and black dissent in particular. Trump’s tweets appeared to be totally impulsive it’s practically routine, at this point, for the president-elect to fire off some early-morning tweets complaining about someone who criticized him the day before, and Lewis was simply Saturday’s chosen target. But every step of the way, he’s been concern-trolled, dismissed, or scolded: told that he is focusing on the wrong thing, or trying to do the right thing but going about it the wrong way.īut there’s a fine line, when an activist is being scolded by those in power, between denunciation and delegitimization. Anti-segregation, voting rights, black political leadership - these are all the sort of goals that everyone, in 2017, can get behind. ![]() He’s a student of nonviolence who’s been beaten up dozens of times a voting rights activist who, even just a few years after the Voting Rights Act passed, found himself needing to argue that it was still needed. The thing is that while John Lewis has been engaged in action for decades, the actions he’s been engaged in haven’t been respected either. I can use all the help I can get!- Donald J. ![]() Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. ![]()
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