Elijah Cummings Called Baltimore ‘Drug Infested Area’ in 1999
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Graham Piro - JULY 31, 2019 2:50 PM
Embattled Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) described his community of Baltimore as a "drug infested area" in a video from a 1999 congressional hearing.
"This morning, I left my community of Baltimore, a drug infested area, where a lot of the drugs we're talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children," Cummings said. "The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up now walking around like zombies. This is only 40 miles away from here."
President Trump criticized both the city of Baltimore and Cummings in multiple tweets over the past week. He called Rep. Cummings a "brutal bully" and claimed the representative was "screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous."
"Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place," he continued.
After the initial criticism, he continued to double down. "Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States," he wrote on Twitter . "No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!"
Members of the media and the Democratic Party condemned Trump's criticism of Baltimore and Cummings. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) called the president "disgusting and racist" and presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Ca.) called the criticism "disgraceful," and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Ca.) defended Cummings.
In 2017, Trump also generated controversy when he referred to the state of New Hampshire as a "drug-infested den." At the time, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said that it was "disappointing" that the president's "mischaracterization of this epidemic ignores the great things this state has to offer."
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So the question is why is Cummings description of Baltimore's predicament ok, yet the President's similar description supposedly "racist"?
Only the left wing media knows for sure!
So, only the "left" recognizes the difference between an assessment of work needing to be done and an intentional insult? Wow. I had no idea, I always thought that was fairly obvious and universal.
“Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
It seems we are communicating with some zombies now. Understanding is dead as a door knob in some people who choose to hide from their consciences. This starts with Donald Trump who is using super-charged hyperbole. Interesting, this experiment with a leader with a sewer for a mouth, demonstrates hyperbole does not sit well with the office of President.That's all.
Please read the seeded article and watch the accompanying video. In 1999, Elijah Cummings referred to his Baltimore district as drug-infested with zombies. Why would you blame Cummings' 20 year negligence on Trump?
Please explain how Crack-cocaine addictions from the Colombian Drug era identify as Representative Elijah Cummings negligence. Moreover, what does 1999 crack addiction infestation have to do with Donal Trump in 2019?
Don't be sorry, I forgive you: Try to stay on topic now.
Stop by the 'front office' and someone with help you put your _ _ _ back on. Now, what responsibly do you care to write about the deploying of a 30 second video-clearly taken out of its context, when we all know the president must know better than to mislead people into thinking that is all that video is.
The Straight Skinny.
Here's a thought: Motive. What motivation does Representative Elijah Cummings have in prioritizing drug infestation (in 1999) above President Trump's invective appeal (2019) to rats and rodents (one could ask what other rodent Trump means) as a means to attack a member of the opposing party.
It is sad when anybody would compare what Elijah Cummings states about his constituents sufferings to a so-called, "leader" using the citizens of Baltimore as a political prop! Where is discernment? Pick discernment up out of the gutter and reintroduce it to your souls, people. As for Donald J. Trump, "Mr. President," you are no longer a fake pretender 'heeling' for the WWE's Vince McMahon. Your attitude towards communities in this country can affect people positively or negatively for life! Much longer than an event of 'Summer Slam'!
President Trump will not get a pass for a pretext. In fact, it is a crying shame that republicans and conservatives play around (enable) with this disingenuous and clearly vindictive man who struts around patting is big fat butt in everybody except their faces (maybe that is why they are okay with it). Although, he does throw resigned members of of his party under the bus too! It seems some republicans and conservatives simply cast aside anyone who can't cope with Donald and keep the 'party' bus going without a conscience.
Sorry I just don't buy it.
President Trump told the race baiter Elijah that he should worry about fixing his own rat infested city and somehow the everything triggers me democrats have made this about race.
It's not about race it's about a rat infested, crime infested city that has had their last three democrat mayors involved in corruption.
I would love to see a accounting for all the billions of dollars the Fed has invested in the shithole.
But then you embolden a proven racist in Trump
Your remark should be stricken for its idiocy. Note. I am not calling you anything. But your comment is talking point invective without any redeeming value.
To prove my point, I am about to produce (below) the entirety of the opening remarks made by Congressman Elijah Cummings at the hearing on August 6, 1999. Moreover, I will point you in the direction of the video itself so that you can go there and get a sense of what real emotion is being felt by republicans and democrats over what became, The Columbian Drug Crisis. Incidentally, if ever there was a context to deliver this phrasing, "drug-infected, zombies," it was during the crack cocaine epidemic pervasive in America circa 1990's.
I grow tired of these non-contextual 'debates' which pop up in the media and on social media. "Grow up, America" — Joan Rivers.
But you just did.
That's par for course from democrats.
Just like Trump pointing out what a rat infested shithole Baltimore is and what a farce Ole Elijah is for his hypocrisy and now that's racist. I didn't know that no white people lived in Baltimore.
idiocy
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NOUN
idiocies (plural noun)
extremely stupid behavior.
I explained myself clearly. Oops! You used a double-negative .
The Straight Skinny.
If Trump and some of his supporters don't like it here in America; Leave.
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It’s so refreshing to have someone finally expose these people
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Perdoneme.
Gee Wiz Where you reside is a drug invested area. So your attempt at a hit is totally without merit
Wha?
If that's your question, I doubt that you actually have a desire for discussion.
Further examples of left-wing hypocrisy. SSDD
And Bernie Sanders once said Baltimore resembles a third world country:
Why wasn't Sanders caled a "racist?"
I forgot about that one. My educated guess is because Sanders is a white, socialist, fake-Democrat.
Okay, i see we need another primer on how race relations work in the US these days. I think this explanation may help.
A white man can make comments, about black men, that can be considered racist. And perhaps they are. A black man can make the same comments, about black men, and it likely won't be considered racist.
I call this the "N" word theorem. In that black men can use that vile "N" word liberally whenever they so choose to do so and not be considered racist but a white man can not. Ever. This is how it works in the USA today.
It's quite a little gambit some folks try to pull off .....
Why do you want to "pull it off" Sparty on? Some things are internal 'glitches' or sores which are 'scabbed over' in society. You might liken it to the "F" word or "Q" word theorems (if you wish). In that homosexuals can use that vile "F" and "Q" word liberally whenever they so choose to do so and not be considered "phobic," but a heterosexual man can not.
Get it? Some things "N's" and "F's" and "Q's" had pressed deep into their psyche's that only regurgitation can release the stress of. Now, you are not suffering from that kind of stress are you, S-O?
This is priceless, but it was inevitable, of course. The hypocrisy, the self-contradiction of so many Democratic politicians has been stunning to watch in recent years.
One day, they support a tough stance on drug crime. A few years later, it's racist and they're sorry. One day, they want to discourage illegal immigration, support deportations, and a build a physical barrier with Mexico. A few years later and such ideas are inhumane and racist and they're really sorry.
One day they think marriage can only be between a man and a woman, but a few years later, they want to believe they always supported LGBT rights.
When they run for office, the cities are "infested" with drugs and crimes, but after they've been in office for a while and they own what goes on in their district, suddenly pointing out the problems they ran on is racist.
And people still vote for these charlatans.
August 6, 1999
U.S. Drug-Fighting Efforts in Colombia
Republican Chair Dan Burton: Panel members heard testimony about the flow of drugs from Colombia to the U.S. and federal government efforts to block it. Witnesses testified that the Colombian drug trafficking problem is growing and that supply and demand must both be reduced through enforcement and education in order to control the problem.
IMPORTANT! *This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning . [You can compare with the testimony starting @ 39 seconds in video record - CB.]
Rep. Elijah Cummings: Thank you Mr Chairman. With the. Indulgence of this. Subcommittee I'm going to recognize or not recognize one person from the minority that recognize our two. Chairman who. We have a chairman of the full committee a member of our. Subcommittee. Mornings did you want to make a brief of them floors of course Mrs General. And then we'll go to. I certainly do.
First of all. Good morning to everyone and I'm sure I mean. Pleased to be here. And I want to thank you Mr Chairman we have. Serving on his subcommittee tried to address that problem. Most of the drugs throughout the world and certainly this country and. I'm sure that you are well aware that that I'm a strong advocate of Salim counter-narcotics efforts. And I will say it. Every single time I have an opportunity. Sometimes I really just think we don't get it.
T his morning. I left my community of Baltimore. A drug infested area where a lot of the drugs that we're talking about today. Have already taken the lives of so many children. The same children. That. I watched. Fourteen or fifteen years ago as they grew up. Now walking around like zombies. This is only forty miles away from he re and. You know as much. I'm very concerned about what is happening in Colombia and I think we ought to do everything we can. To address this issue. I come here today to speak for the dead. The ones who don't even know where Colombia is. The ones who. Like I said a few years ago. Had hope. The ones who had become victims and I call them victims because every time I see one of them standing want to corner. Like zombies. The pain. I cannot begin to tell you how painful it is because I know that they're in so much pain. That they don't even know they're in pain.
And that's why it's so important to me and to my district. That we concentrate more of our efforts on treatment. I think Mr Towns said it. Quite nicely. He used the term. Hustling backwards. Let me tell you something if you don't have a demand you don't have to worry about Colombia. You don't have to worry about it but. Neighborhood after neighborhood throughout this country and if it has not hit you or is it will. Neighborhood after neighborhood. People who cannot afford these drug s. Right now as we speak. Are breaking into houses. To get five dollars ten dollars or whatever for crack cocaine. What are answers. We have one. Level of sentencing for pot of cocaine another of a crack in Baltimore our jails are filled with black men and black women. Rotting away. And so it is said today you say that we come here to address.
This whole issue of Colombia and sure it's about me but there's a direct link. And I admire you Mr Burton and I admire you Mr Goldman. But I want you to do me a favor. I want you to come to my neighborhood. And I understand why I pushed for treatment so very hard. There are not enough treatments lives we've probably got for every treatment slot that we have. We probably got a demand for one hundred people who want to get off of drug s and so. The chairman said something that I agree with he said we must look again in his opening statement we must look again. Else tried strategies and policies. And protect the vital interests of the United States Mr Chairman. I agree with you one hundred percent.
We must look at them and we evaluate them. Because as I see this Colombian war. With these rebels and folks who want to get to see each other. I mean I don't know how much we can do there but I know one thing what can be done in my neighborhood. When some high schools have eighty percent of the young people dropping out. Between ninth grade and twelfth wait. Many of them standing on corners going nowhere fast. And so we're going to revalue wait let us make sure that you wait. To provide more treatment. Sixty percent of the her when you city United States is from Colombia. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Has estimated at fifty five thousand. How when an exciting the state of Maryland. And seventy one percent of them live in Baltimore City and.
Keep in mind Baltimore only has a population of six hundred seventy one thousand. I've got a serious crisis in my district and although I have some concerns regarding the large amount of funding requested to address the complex problems and Colombia. I am eager to hear from the witnesses today. As to how we can work together to get these drug s. Off of our streets.
It changes nothing. Leftist Democrats have run all these major US cities for decades. They remain and will remain if under Dem control as cesspools of crime, violence, poverty, drug abuse, alcoholism, high rates of unwed motherhood, abortions, and the like.
Dems have no desire or plan to actually change this. In fact they created and want its perpetuation to further their own political power.
This is what statist socialism produces. One only look at the debates which show ZERO ideas from the Dems to create economic opportunity. They only know commie redistribution of wealth.
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The only “prejudice” I have is against destructive ideologies.
you and others on the left choose to ignore the truth about all these American cities and the destructive results of decades of leftist Democrat rule. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity
Anything you say. . . dude. It is a tad disorienting to hear Trump use the same talking points as you in his rally, and wonder who gave what to whom!
Then I guess we are done here. Thank to those who kept it civil. Good night all.