Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I feel 100 times safe in ANY part of Baltimore over eastern KY and I have family in Louisville and Lexington.
I lived in baltimore from 2006-2008. I heard gunshots weekly. I still felt safer walking in Mt. Vernon or Charles Village at night than downtown Fargo.
Flyover america is full of meth-heads and rednecks who are just waiting to shank you or lynch you.
That said, both places are really third world places.
We need more Boulder, Colorado's in this country asap (in terms of QoL).
Anonymous wrote:I feel 100 times safe in ANY part of Baltimore over eastern KY and I have family in Louisville and Lexington.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I feel 100 times safe in ANY part of Baltimore over eastern KY and I have family in Louisville and Lexington.
My husband is from rural Virginia and says there were plenty of menacing scary folks in his hood. People would get drunk and shoot each other. Lots of breakins and other crime. Not many black people for you to blame there!
Anonymous wrote:I feel 100 times safe in ANY part of Baltimore over eastern KY and I have family in Louisville and Lexington.
Anonymous wrote:I feel 100 times safe in ANY part of Baltimore over eastern KY and I have family in Louisville and Lexington.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bernie Sanders called Baltimore a 3rd world country in 2015. I always knew he was a racist too.
Just want to highlight this again because aside form one or two comments, it seems like no one wants to address this.
Why was there no uproar when Bernie said this? Perhaps because it’s true?
We discussed this earlier in the thread. You all have posted the actual tweet by Bernie several times.
Your post suggests that you aren't a part of the "you all" group that thinks Bernie's comment does not need to be addressed. Already discussed. End of story.![]()
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sept. 12 2018 - Baltimore Sun quotes Mayor Pugh
In the footage, Pugh tours an area of vacant houses with city leaders and says: “What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down.”
And then:“Whoa, you can smell the rats.”
That is not Racist.
April 2019 - Baltimore Sun Editorial says
Yet, here we are again in a mess of a city. Food containers, balled up clothes, paper, banana peels, plastic bags and tons of other pieces of litter line the shoulders of roads, pile up in alleys and are strewn across fields and yards. Not only is it unsightly and contributes to a rodent problem, but it can create a glum and gloomy feel
That is not Racist
Somehow when Trump points it out, the same Baltimore Sun calls him Racist?
There is a difference between rats and what Trump was referring to. He was not talking about literal rats when he used the word 'infestation."
Here is his exact quote: Cummings district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. How is that different? Why are you making up the word "infestation" when he did not use that word?
But everyone knows he isn't talking about rodents. He doesn't have a rodent count for each Congressional district, he knows it is a majority-black district, so he says it is infested, just as he said about John Lewis's district when he made the outrageous claim, then as now, that Members of Congress from these districts should not speak about the country as a whole, only their own districts, unlike the Republican Members of Congress from poor majority-white states whom he regards as experts on everything because they agree with every stupid thing he says and whom he appoints as Cabinet Secretaries, WH Chief of Staff, etc.
You are now making up stuff and deciding what he "meant" not looking at what he said. Your "he knows it is a majority black district, so he says it is infested" is just dumb. He says it is rat infested, because it is, not because it is majority black. Baltimores own Mayor says it is rat infested, is She a racist too?
How is calling a rat infested place, rat infested, racist? It's a fact. If it was not a shithole, but he called it one because black people lived there, thats pretty racist. The problem is, he called a shithole a shithole. Calling him Racist for pointing out the obvious is easier than cleaning up your neighborhood I guess....
Tell us O wise one, why is it that he never calls out the shitholes of rural America? They do exist you know. But all the shitholes he calls out are inhabited by people of color, where as rural American shitholes tend to be white.
Show me an example of him complaining about those shitty rat-infested trailer parks. Ooh does that raise your hackles?
I live in the south and all the shitty trailer parks are lived in by poor black families. The poor whites live on their own land in trailers, not parks. The parks are rentals and poor whites won’t live in them. They buy a used double wide and put it on half an acre.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bernie Sanders called Baltimore a 3rd world country in 2015. I always knew he was a racist too.
Just want to highlight this again because aside form one or two comments, it seems like no one wants to address this.
Why was there no uproar when Bernie said this? Perhaps because it’s true?
We discussed this earlier in the thread. You all have posted the actual tweet by Bernie several times.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sept. 12 2018 - Baltimore Sun quotes Mayor Pugh
In the footage, Pugh tours an area of vacant houses with city leaders and says: “What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down.”
And then:“Whoa, you can smell the rats.”
That is not Racist.
April 2019 - Baltimore Sun Editorial says
Yet, here we are again in a mess of a city. Food containers, balled up clothes, paper, banana peels, plastic bags and tons of other pieces of litter line the shoulders of roads, pile up in alleys and are strewn across fields and yards. Not only is it unsightly and contributes to a rodent problem, but it can create a glum and gloomy feel
That is not Racist
Somehow when Trump points it out, the same Baltimore Sun calls him Racist?
There is a difference between rats and what Trump was referring to. He was not talking about literal rats when he used the word 'infestation."
Here is his exact quote: Cummings district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. How is that different? Why are you making up the word "infestation" when he did not use that word?
But everyone knows he isn't talking about rodents. He doesn't have a rodent count for each Congressional district, he knows it is a majority-black district, so he says it is infested, just as he said about John Lewis's district when he made the outrageous claim, then as now, that Members of Congress from these districts should not speak about the country as a whole, only their own districts, unlike the Republican Members of Congress from poor majority-white states whom he regards as experts on everything because they agree with every stupid thing he says and whom he appoints as Cabinet Secretaries, WH Chief of Staff, etc.
You are now making up stuff and deciding what he "meant" not looking at what he said. Your "he knows it is a majority black district, so he says it is infested" is just dumb. He says it is rat infested, because it is, not because it is majority black. Baltimores own Mayor says it is rat infested, is She a racist too?
How is calling a rat infested place, rat infested, racist? It's a fact. If it was not a shithole, but he called it one because black people lived there, thats pretty racist. The problem is, he called a shithole a shithole. Calling him Racist for pointing out the obvious is easier than cleaning up your neighborhood I guess....
Tell us O wise one, why is it that he never calls out the shitholes of rural America? They do exist you know. But all the shitholes he calls out are inhabited by people of color, where as rural American shitholes tend to be white.
Show me an example of him complaining about those shitty rat-infested trailer parks. Ooh does that raise your hackles?
I feel a lot safer in eastern Kentucky than I do in Baltimore. Just saying. Poor and violent crime are not synonymous.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sept. 12 2018 - Baltimore Sun quotes Mayor Pugh
In the footage, Pugh tours an area of vacant houses with city leaders and says: “What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down.”
And then:“Whoa, you can smell the rats.”
That is not Racist.
April 2019 - Baltimore Sun Editorial says
Yet, here we are again in a mess of a city. Food containers, balled up clothes, paper, banana peels, plastic bags and tons of other pieces of litter line the shoulders of roads, pile up in alleys and are strewn across fields and yards. Not only is it unsightly and contributes to a rodent problem, but it can create a glum and gloomy feel
That is not Racist
Somehow when Trump points it out, the same Baltimore Sun calls him Racist?
There is a difference between rats and what Trump was referring to. He was not talking about literal rats when he used the word 'infestation."
Here is his exact quote: Cummings district is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. How is that different? Why are you making up the word "infestation" when he did not use that word?
But everyone knows he isn't talking about rodents. He doesn't have a rodent count for each Congressional district, he knows it is a majority-black district, so he says it is infested, just as he said about John Lewis's district when he made the outrageous claim, then as now, that Members of Congress from these districts should not speak about the country as a whole, only their own districts, unlike the Republican Members of Congress from poor majority-white states whom he regards as experts on everything because they agree with every stupid thing he says and whom he appoints as Cabinet Secretaries, WH Chief of Staff, etc.
You are now making up stuff and deciding what he "meant" not looking at what he said. Your "he knows it is a majority black district, so he says it is infested" is just dumb. He says it is rat infested, because it is, not because it is majority black. Baltimores own Mayor says it is rat infested, is She a racist too?
How is calling a rat infested place, rat infested, racist? It's a fact. If it was not a shithole, but he called it one because black people lived there, thats pretty racist. The problem is, he called a shithole a shithole. Calling him Racist for pointing out the obvious is easier than cleaning up your neighborhood I guess....
Tell us O wise one, why is it that he never calls out the shitholes of rural America? They do exist you know. But all the shitholes he calls out are inhabited by people of color, where as rural American shitholes tend to be white.
Show me an example of him complaining about those shitty rat-infested trailer parks. Ooh does that raise your hackles?