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

[PimpHandStrong]

I wonder how many nikkas gonna defend that clown John Lewis?

I'm gonna post this now that I'm on page 1 and see how many capes flap by the time I get to page 17

You really coming for a legend because of one tweet? Really bruh...

 

[Free White & 21]

You really coming for a legend because of one tweet? Really bruh...

That one tweet says it all

p*ssy nikka posted that RIGHT after the Micah X shooting

He a legendary p*ssy and a CLOWN

 

[Free White & 21]

What are you doing for black people in your community that gives you the leadway to discredit a civil rights legend?

How did I discredit him?
HE posted the tweet

 

[Perfectson]

Doubtful.

Dems may get more votes (and often do) but the districts are too gerrymandered to the GOPs advantage for it to matter much. Certainly not enough for the Dems to have a realistic chance of taking anything back anything in 2018.

If trump shyts the bed , these districts will vote out Republicans, Republicans will have to make a choice of backing unpopular president or standing up to him to ensure they stay in office

 

[Free White & 21]

John Lewis understands that hate is not the answer. I can't see nothing wrong with that. He is basically saying what any enlightened person would say, he understands that there are people falling victim to the ego ridden idea of whites being superior, you don't break this illusion by being violent back.
This doesn't mean though that violence as a revolt can't be understood from a psychological perspective, it means that it shouldn't be encouraged, that's all. John Lewis handling of the police is what an enlightened man would do, wether your mind would accept it or not.

Yea an enlightened man THANKS SOMEBODY for busting them upside the fukkin head simply for existing
If you don't get your simple ass somewhere..
Negged ho

 

[omnifax]

How could you expect Obama to reduce the racial wealth gap during his 8 year presidency? It's unfair metric to use over an 8 year period because the wealth gap has been created over generations of discriminatory laws and economic policies. No president can single handily reduce this during 2 terms especially without his or her party having control of the other 2 braches of government. Obama ain't a saint but don't place burdens on his legacy that he had neither the tools nor the time to alleviate.

I wouldn't go that far. In that piece with Ta Nahesi Coates (sp?) he stated specifically that he knew that a large part of issues plaguing the black community were economic and he knew what steps needed to be taken to help remedy them he just didn't believe he could convince white politicians/citizens to make those steps policy and he stated that very clearly.

As far as not having enough time, I think 8 years is plenty to at least start something. No person with any common sense was expecting some sort of magical wand waving from his presidency but not even attempting or starting some policy is not sensible either.

 

[Prince Mongo]

How did I discredit him?
HE posted the tweet

Implying that his tweet makes him a c00n

 

[UserNameless]

Gotta chill on the John Lewis hate, tho.

 

[shhh-kull & bones]

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

What are you doing for black people in your community that gives you the leadway to discredit a civil rights legend?

He took the those beatings and thanked them because in the end he knew it would help the Civil Rights movement reach its goal.


nikkas nowadays are taking beatings for no reason.


I can see the arguments for and against the tweet

 

[Izanami]

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.

Don't let these Cacs in blackface and c00ns on this site fool you. Majority blacks voted against trump.

 

[Koba St]

I wonder how many nikkas gonna defend that clown John Lewis?

I'm gonna post this now that I'm on page 1 and see how many capes flap by the time I get to page 17

This is the black politician y'all repping? What say you now suburban "militants"

 

[Sharp]

John Lewis used his positioning with MLK to get to where he is. Civil Rights Movement was 50 years ago. What has he done lately other than talk shyt in Congress where no one respects him and he gets nothing done?

 

[Sharp]

But fukk Donald Trump

 

[King Kreole]

How could you expect Obama to reduce the racial wealth gap during his 8 year presidency? It's unfair metric to use over an 8 year period because the wealth gap has been created over generations of discriminatory laws and economic policies. No president can single handily reduce this during 2 terms especially without his or her party having control of the other 2 braches of government. Obama ain't a saint but don't place burdens on his legacy that he had neither the tools nor the time to alleviate.

From the very outset of his administration, Barack Obama has shown a propensity to value the corporatism at heart of the neoliberal ideology over any redistributive efforts towards the most at-risk populations, including African-Americans. He campaigned as a proto-Bernie populist progressive who would fight for homeowners and unions and the working class, and then immediately did an about face when sworn into office by firing the architects of his campaign's economic messaging and hiring a grip of corporate lackeys to be his closest economic advisors. And in a move foreshadowing the state of the Democratic Party throughout his administration, he abandoned his OFA grassroots organization and essentially let it die. The policies he ended up actually proposing were timid and superficial, not designed to enact structural change except to ensure that the banks that committed illegal, fraudulent activities were given primacy and protected from the fallout of the financial crisis, necessarily at the expense of the homeowner class. Property is the foundation of wealth-building. The black population was disproportionately targeted and harmed by the predatory lending that caused the foreclosure crisis. Obama's hesitancy to rectify this injustice was perhaps the single largest contributor to the widening of the racial wealth gap during this decade. It would of course be absurd to blame Obama for the existence of the racial wealth gap, but he holds responsibility for its expansion during his terms, because the policies he chose to support did exactly that.

Nothing is sadder than a man who disclaims his power to preserve his reputation. The presidency is subject to countless veto points and constraints, but the foreclosure disaster was unique; Congress had already given the incoming president the authority to act.

Obama the candidate ran on allowing bankruptcy judges to cut balances on primary mortgages; Obama’s administration actively whipped against the policy. Obama’s transition team earmarked up to $100 billion in funds appropriated through Bush’s bank bailout to mitigate foreclosures; eight years later only around $21 billion has been spent. Obama the president promised 4 million mortgage modifications; to date less than a million have been successfully achieved.

No Republican sign-off was necessary for Obama’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The Treasury Department alone decided to run it through mortgage companies that had financial incentives to foreclose rather than modify loans. Treasury never saw the program as a relief vehicle, but a way to “foam the runway” for the banks, allowing them to absorb inevitable foreclosures more slowly. Homeowners were the foam being crushed by a jumbo jet in that scenario, squeezed for as many payments as possible before ultimately losing their homes.

Worst of all, most of these foreclosures were executed fraudulently. Banks neglected centuries-old property records laws, and used millions of forged and fabricated documents as evidence in courtrooms and county offices to paper over their mistakes. When this came to light in fall 2010, the leading mortgage companies stopped foreclosing because they could no longer do so legally.

But Obama’s Justice Department did not use this newfound leverage to obtain equitable solutions for struggling families. It didn’t prosecute those responsible for fraud. It reached a series of bank settlements that provided little meaningful relief. Fraudulent documents still get used in foreclosures today. And of course, no high-ranking executive saw the inside of a jail cell.

- How America's Foreclosure Crisis Worsened Under Obama

Mind you, these are not policies subject to congressional approval, these are under the purview of the executive branch. He had the time. He had the tools. He made a calculated decision to not use them. That is his legacy.

How Obama Failed Black Americans