President-Elect Attacks John Lewis: "Worry about your crime-infested district"

[JLova]

the point of Trump's tweet is that if he wanted to he would insert any black politicians name into that spot. This the same fool that posted that fake ass crime stat and presented that fake news as fact.

Same guy that asked for Obama's birth certificate but wouldn't provide his own tax info.

All them white people voted this clown into office.

 

[Pressure]

There will always be black people like Omarosa and Ben Carson...no matter what happens.

But Trumps taking a chance allowing undequalified blacks the opportunity to work in roles they're traditionally denied.

 

[DynamoEAR]

I'd like to think it's just a minority of loudmouthed c00ns on the Internet. I honestly don't know any black folks in real life that fukk with Trump at all, and voting-wise more than 90% of black voters voted against him.

But I agree, I don't see how any self-respecting black person could defend somebody that's putting open white nationalists in his cabinet.

13% of nikkas that voted and 16% of nikkas with a college degree that voted did so for Donald the Terrible.

 

[newworldafro]

North Atlanta aint even fukkin bad tho

I grew up right outside it in Gwinnett

Nah...His district is smack in the middle of the Atlanta Metro: parts of City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Clayton County, DeKalb County..see map below.

Georgia's 5th congressional district: Demographics, crime, map

Trump trashes John Lewis' district: Things to know about 5th Congressional District
Jennifer Peebles
11:51 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017

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If President-Elect Donald Trump believes Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District is “falling apart,"then he believes Atlanta is falling apart.

The Fifth Congressional District includes downtown Atlanta and much of central Fulton and DeKalb counties and the northern third of Clayton. Or, to put it in the language that Atlantans best understand: The Fifth Congressional District covers the majority of the land inside the Perimeter, as well as some of the suburban communities to the south and west.

It includes Buckhead and Bankhead, the Ritz-Carlton and the town of Rex, Lenox Square and Lakewood Heights -- and a lot of places in between.

The state of Georgia is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by election officials from 14 districts. The city of Atlanta is mostly located in Georgia's 5th congressional district.
Here's a quick data snapshot of Rep. John Lewis'district:

• Almost 750,000 people live there, according to the most recent estimates from the Census Bureau. The population is about 58 percent African-American, about one-third white and about 5 percent Asian.
• The median household income is about $48,000 -- slightly higher than Georgia's median, but below the national median of $54,000.
• About 1 in 6 families in the district lived in poverty in the previous year. The same dataset estimated the national rate to be about 1 family in 9.
• The unemployment rate in the district was about 8.2 percent when the Census Bureau released its estimates last year for the American Community Survey’s 2015 one-year measurement. The same data set estimated the national unemployment rate at 6.3 percent, and the Georgia state rate at 7.1 percent. The national unemployment rate as of December, published by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, was 4.7 percent.
• Nearly nine out of 10 residents of the Fifth District were high school graduates or had education beyond high school, and about four out of 10 residents had at least a bachelor's degree, according to Census estimates.
• The largest single chunk of employed residents in Lewis' district, about half of the civilian work force, worked in a field grouped by the Census as "management, business, science, and arts occupations." The district includes Atlanta's downtown and main business district, and includes the headquarters of the Coca-Cola Company in Midtown and Delta Air Lines near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It also covers the campuses of Georgia Tech and Emory University as well as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many of the city's major cultural and arts institutions.
• The largest single sector employing people in the Fifth District is construction (12 percent), followed by "management and remediation services" (11.9 percent) and "management of companies and enterprises" (11.8).
• In his Tweets about Lewis, Trump also hit on a continuing issue for Fifth District residents, Atlanta's crime problems, pegging the Fifth District as "crime-infested." Atlanta landed at No. 14 in the nation for its rate of violent crime when the Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics last year that applied to 2015.

While overall crime in the city has been down, according to statistics cited by the Atlanta Police Department, Mayor Kasim Reed spoke last summer of a spike in the number of homicides and announced the creation of a gun violence task force.

But the rise in homicides in Atlanta mirrors a national trend in major cities across the country, and a New York Times analysis last year showed major jumps in murder rates in 25 of America's 100 biggest cities. Atlanta was not one of the 25.

The most recent violent crime rate for Atlanta and more than two dozen of its largest surrounding counties, according to the FBI, was 401 per 100,000 residents. That puts Atlanta at a rate similar to that of Clarksville, Tenn, which came in at 405. That's higher than the rate of the Dallas-Fort Worth area (338) but lower than Kansas City (536), Columbia, S.C. (651) and Columbus, Ga. (469).


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[DerrtySouthpaw]

fukk this orange piece of shyt and you too if you defend him
you c00ns and cacs have run rampant for too long. disrespecting a civil rights hero meanwhile this hoe ass nikka was dodging the draft on more than one occasions. you nikkas are hoes

 

[Unknown Poster]

the point of Trump's tweet is that if he wanted to he would insert any black politicians name into that spot. This the same fool that posted that fake ass crime stat and presented that fake news as fact.

from a white supremacist/neo-nazi account with the tagline "diversity=white genocide".

I'm saying this...expect everything and ANYTHING to happen in the next 4 years. The Trump election has exposed white America's insecurities. They proved they will go as far as electing a fascist and promoting a totalitarian attitude in order to preserve whiteness in America. When in actuality, they've been sold out by the Russians. No black person should even fukk with Trump or his cabinet. Especially when people on it like Richard Spencer want to create white nationalist styled "ethno states" and are in love with the model white christian hellhole that is modern day Russia.

I have a feeling they trying to attack the hood first cause it's the easiest target. Look at all these cops getting off when tehy kill unarmed black folks, the system rarel cares when black men or black women get shot by cops....they want to give cops mad protections and freedoms, they want to go into the hood and "cleanse it" If anything

 

[The War Report]

There will always be black people like Omarosa and Ben Carson...no matter what happens.

They a small minority.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Exactly.

This guy started the birther movement and spent YEARS pandering to racists, questioning the legitimacy of the countries first black president (for little other reason than him being black), and saying he wasn't a "real" American. And now we're supposed to just forget about all that and be ok with this guy as president?


Dude should get ZERO cooperation or respect from the black caucus or black people in general.

Exactly

 

[YouMadd?]

Not defending Trump but don't let John Lewis get black folks in the front lines of this ridiculous debate on the election results and legitimacy of Trump's presidency . Let him hold his own with his assertation. If he's got something solid to ride with then get on his side, until then chill.

Exactly! You are a smart man and see the big picture...

 

[MarloStanTrill]

Trump just said that because he believes all black areas are crime infested... gonna be a shock to find out when he learns about that heroin epidemic.

cacs don't do drugs or have problems stupid

 

[YouMadd?]

I truly just don't understand the inner workings in the minds of black people who legitimately think Trump is here to help the black community when he says and does stuff like this.

He has a history of not renting out apartments to blacks...said he didn't want black people handling his money...referred to Lil' Jon as an "Uncle Tom" on the set of the Apprentice...claimed Obama was not born in America and pleaded with him to show him his "real" birth certificate from Kenya...invites Kanye West to Trump Towers one day, then goes to a rally in Hershey, PA with a 99.9% white crowd and tells them to applaud the fact that black people didn't go out and vote en masse for his success in this election. Let's not forget the fact that he encouraged his cult-like followers at a rally to beat up a black man for $1500 as Trump called him a "thug" (the new codeword for "n****") as he was escorted by police.

Then black people have the nerve to say "he never talked about us...he only cares about Mexicans and Muslims..." as if he hasn't baited black people this whole time leading up to now. Don't let some photo-ops fool you. The man surrounds himself with hardcore white supremacists who have a history of anti-blackness and y'all really think he's going to help the black community?

I don't want to say this...but this election really proved how DESPERATE the black community is in America. To even support this man who has actual Neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer in his cabinet, you have to be completely fukking brainded.

Richard Spencer is in Trump's cabinet?

 

[DynamoEAR]

Richard Spencer is in Trump's cabinet?

Steve Bannon, he meant.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Trump just said that because he believes all black areas are crime infested... gonna be a shock to find out when he learns about that heroin epidemic.

Checkmate

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

This attack on John Lewis sent a signal to Black elites. Obama, Clinton & even Bush II wanted some engagement with moneyed Black folks, this new administration dont give a fukk how long their money is, how old they family name is or how highly esteemed they are, their asses are getting thrown under the bus with the rest of Black society.

 

[ALonelyDad]

lol @ ppl defending trump..whether he is right or wrong, this is not how you address things. Guy is a retard, and has hired retards