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Trying to refute Trump's comments about Elijah Cummings's district by pointing to examples of success misses the point. I can't speak for Cummings's district specifically, but irrespective of how well his district is doing, there is plenty of blight to go around...
...The fact is, predominantly Black districts all over this country are disproportionately dens of privation, that's a sociological fact. But, it's no fault of the people in the districts. We've been getting bled dry for 400 years to feed vampire shit gibbons like Trump...
...Black poverty is a shame, but it is not our shame. It is the shame of a country that has grown rich on Black suffering and death from its inception. The wealth that should have made Black America rich went and is going to line the pockets of Europe's surplus population...
...Talk to me of Black crime, and I'll talk to you of the greatest criminal enterprise the human race has ever known. Ask me who leads this empire of theft and murder, and I'll point you toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What have I to prove to the thief who robs me?...
...So, if Trump doesn't like what he sees in the inner cities or in the Black belt's corridors of shame, he holds the key to the loot, and anytime he pleases, he may alleviate this suffering. But he won't, because he is the child, ally and father of brazen criminals...
...White people shaming us for our poverty is like someone stabbing you and then mocking the holes in your flesh. It is an atrocity, it is a shameful act, but it is not for the abused, the misused and the bleeding to be ashamed, the shame belongs to the butchers and thieves.
