Trump’s attack on Lewis smears black communities

Posted by | January 14, 2017 22:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Trump stereotypes black communities with his attack on the civil rights icon.

In response to a series of tweets from President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday that attacked civil rights legend John Lewis for taking no action to improve his “crime infested” district that’s in “horrible shape” and “falling apart,” much of the country immediately jumped to Lewis’ defense.

Deeply offended by Trump’s suggestion that Lewis — who has been beaten and arrested for marching for racial justice and voting rights — is “all talk and no action,” dozens of lawmakers fired back on Twitter with examples of his significant contributions over the past several decades.

But this response to Trump’s tweets sidesteps the fact that, in addition to personally insulting Lewis, the president-elect’s comments also rely on an offensive racial stereotype about the black community — one that Trump has a very long history of parroting.

Accusing Lewis, a black congressman who represents a majority black district, of blithely presiding over a terrible, crime-ridden hell hole reveals a lot about Trump’s assumptions about places where black people live.

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5 responses to Trump’s attack on Lewis smears black communities

  1. labman57 January 14th, 2017 at 22:23

    To Trump and his fellow narrow-minded white Republicans, “crime-ridden” is synonymous with “ethnic urban”.

    • fahvel January 15th, 2017 at 01:45

      agree and more – the people like you to be (maybe) next pres are the vilest of criminals in that there are NO morals and NO ethics to be considered when in the process of fleecing the population to gold gilt faucets and walls and, my favorite, aholes.

  2. whatthe46 January 14th, 2017 at 22:25

    of course he would smear black communities. he doesn’t know anything about them other than what the racist media reports. a black child gets shot down and murdered within seconds of being approached by cops, and it’s his fault. this is the same b.s. that the RWmedia/nazi’s feed to their viewers. KMBA

    • Larry Schmitt January 14th, 2017 at 23:43

      And KMWA too.

      • KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker January 15th, 2017 at 06:44

        Gesundheit!

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