Trump to meet with inner city pastors

[conan]

@conan

$15.7 billion in grants, benefits and other assistance from the federal government in Fiscal Year 2018,

@JimmyC

Why hasn’t Trump fixed it like he said he would?

How much? Give us a dollar figure lib. How much do they need?

[reflechissez]

@conan

What has Elijah Cummings done for Baltimore?

He was their Representative for 22 plus years.

Or all the democrat Mayors since 1967.

Meh. Appalachia is no hidden gem.

[reflechissez]

@Sknyluv

@mikee

Perhaps they believe that “love your enemies” stuff.

Possibly, but there’s little evidence to suggest that Trump will listen and or care about what they have to say.

Actually, if they’re smart, they’ll pretend to kiss his ass and they’ll get some money.

[Demon]

You seem to be assuming that some of the ethnicities you listed aren’t suburban. Otherwise, you made no point at all as to what @H_Arendt was saying.

[Cynic]

There is poverty in districts red and blue across the nation, and all sorts of pictures, and other ways to play superficial politics with them.

[reflechissez]

@conan

So he has represented his district for 22 plus years…but yet poverty and crime riddles the city.

And Trump is racist is all libs can say?

Instead of broad-brushed talking points, can you be more specific? What’s “his district” and what do you mean by “riddles.” Words having meaning.

[reflechissez]

@conan

Maybe you should correct Balitmore Sun

Data from the 2017 U.S. Census shows Cummings’ district is nearly 53% percent black and nearly 36% white. Seven percent of the district is Asian, nearly 4% is Hispanic and less than 1% percent of the area is Native American and Pacific Islander. The median age in the majority-female district is 38.9, and residents 18 years and over make up nearly 79% of the population, data shows.

Meanwhile

Cummings’ congressional district received just under $15.7 billion in grants, benefits and other assistance from the federal government in Fiscal Year 2018, according to Newsweek’s analysis of the federal awards data compiled by USAspending.gov. By comparison, districts like Indiana’s 7th (at $16.5 billion), New Jersey’s 12th (at $17.2 billion) and Pennsylvania’s 4th (at $27.4 billion) all received more money in the same period, according to Newsweek’s website.

So what’s going on there?

Oh who cares…Trump is a racist.

What to know about Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, which is again in the national spotlight

Pictures of interest.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+trump+with+al+sharpton&client=firefox-b-1-d&channel=cus&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=VPhQ8JfYKMK6EM%253A%252Cc_1guZxqxnpIVM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kR3Hesyn3wz4ieWyKbtL_ft1YgBgA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdmPLy69rjAhWKhVQKHUsrD80Q9QEwCXoECAcQFg#imgrc=VPhQ8JfYKMK6EM:

Is there a point here?

[reflechissez]

@Demon

@conan

Data from the 2017 U.S. Census shows Cummings’ district is nearly 53% percent black and nearly 36% white. Seven percent of the district is Asian, nearly 4% is Hispanic and less than 1% percent of the area is Native American and Pacific Islander. The median age in the majority-female district is 38.9, and residents 18 years and over make up nearly 79% of the population, data shows.

Interesting. @H_Arendt said much of Cummings district is suburban. In there anything in the ethnicity of what you posted that shows they are not suburban?

This is a good point.

[TommyLucchese]

You can always make Trump fold with enough bad publicity. Always.

[bluedogdem]

Im trying to decipher some post. Are some people trying to say only black people live on poverty?

[reflechissez]

@Guvnah

I’ll bet a lot of people aren’t going to be happy with what I’m going to say …

Much of the inner-city turmoil is endemic. Cultural. Generational. There is not a lot of family structure there. 70% of kids are raised without a father. Role models? The street becomes family.

Trump isn’t going to change any of that. Laws won’t change any of that.

It has to come from within the community. From within the family. Churches are one vector for doing that (though if nobody is active in a church, little good that will do…)

Maybe a couple dozen churches try a couple dozen different things in an attempt to address the problem. Maybe one or two will show positive results and can be replicated elsewhere. Somebody has to step forward and take the lead. That’s far better than everyone standing back and tsk-tsk-ing the situation and denigrating attempts to change the paradigm.

You need to define “inner city.” Are you talking about poor people or about everybody who lives in the city limits? Is everyone within the city limits suffering from inner-city turmoil? You people are very lazy with your definitions.

[reflechissez]

@conan

Maryland’s 7th Congressional District…includes much of Baltimore but reaches into Baltimore and Howard counties as well.

So your point is what?

What’s your point?

[reflechissez]

@bluedogdem

Im trying to decipher some post. Are some people trying to say only black people live on poverty?

Seems that way.

[moonshine]

one think trump knows is rats

Trump slams 'rat-infested' district – but his own restaurant had a rodent...

[bluedogdem]

@reflechissez

@bluedogdem

Im trying to decipher some post. Are some people trying to say only black people live on poverty?

Seems that way.

With tensions high with the current political climate I didn’t want to accuse anyone directly

[Cynic]

Wondering the same, looks like unrelated sections of articles quoted in the hope that people would be impressed?

[mccoyfan]

Trump is wasting his time with the pastors.
He should be talking to the Civil Blight community unorganizers.

[bluedogdem]

Well someone is not telling the truth on how down right dirty Baltimore is

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/455174-house-republicans-to-host-yearly-retreat-in-baltimore-amid-trump-attacks

[conan]

That may very well be…but it doesn’t change the fact that Cummings represent Baltimore which is mostly inner city.

I know you want to turn facts into racism…after all it’s libs MO is it not?

[Demon]

It’s not me who’s turning things into racism.