Lots of Good People, Hard At Work
Fabulous point here. As you’re reading this, there are many millions of people working in more than 200,000 groups whose purpose is environmental and social justice. If you were to read the names of these groups at one per second, you’d be reading for two and one-half days.
That’s a lot of horsepower for the good guys.
Craig,
Perhaps you could be so magnanimous as to include a group led by activist and Trump supporter, Scott Presler.
After President Donald Trump drew attention to “rat-infested ” condition of Baltimore, Scott Presler rounded up over one hundred young Trump supporters and went to West Baltimore to help cleanup the neighborhood by their own labour.
The local residents, almost all African American, responded with gratitude and expressed contempt for those demonstrating against the President.
In fact, most residents were pleased the President had brought attention to their plight, but some expressed fear of being singled out for violent retribution by radical gangs or democrat activists and officials if they were seen supporting the President.
One local leader expressed her view, “We were told Trump’s words about Baltimore’s trash and rat infestation problem were insulting and racist, I don’t see that! He just told the truth”.
Another pointed to the young volunteers, contrasting them to the destructive riots and protests of radical leftist activists who get so much coverage in the media about Trump’s supposed racist overtones and divisive rhetoric.
Yet another resident contributed, ” It’s here at ground level you see the President and his supporters, not those crazy demonstrators from affluent white suburbs and universities. They don’t have to live here”
He blamed the media and “corrupt” democrats for fabricating the stories of the President’s supposed racism.
Another Black resident stated, ” They say Trump is a racist, all I know is now he President, I got a steady job and I see all this happening, I don’t care what anybody say, he’s okay by me. I never seen anyone say it like it is down here, but Trump tells it like it is. The man makes it happen, not just b……t, like the democrats, but things really change”.
In response, The Baltimore Sun, went into Pavlovian overdrive and published an entire editorial deriding Scott Pressler and his efforts :
“”Amazingly enough,” the Baltimore Sun wrote, “Mr. Presler is not the first one to come up with the bright idea of a neighborhood cleanup. It is not really that remarkable of a concept. In fact, they happen all the time. Sadly, it doesn’t take long for people (frequently from outside the community) to refill the alleyways with illegal dumping and for grass to grow again in front of vacant buildings with no resident available to tend the lawn.”
The Editor continued, “Does Mr. Presler know that drug dealers use trash to hide their product and have been known to threaten people who try to clean it up? The solutions are just not that simple.”
What the local residents of West Baltimore made of these admonitions,has yet to be recorded.
The Baltimore Sun editorial continued to deride the Cleanup by expressing it’s “skeptical” Presler’s efforts are about “Americans helping Americans.”
The Editorial also cast doubt on the amount of trash the volunteers claim they removed. The board even suggested Presler staged finding a Washington Post edition printed on the day President Obama first won the White House.(the WP paper was actually found by a local volunteer).
The Baltimore Sun was invited to attend the Cleanup day and witness for themselves the efforts and local community efforts.
The Baltimore Sun responded by echoing the words of Rep. Elijah Cummings and other local Democrats in boycotting the event, claiming it to be a “Trump racist publicity stunt”.
As Becket Adams of the Washington Examiner wrote:
“When you stop trying to make everything Trump says out to be some kind of racist attack on America, you can focus on the problem he’s highlighting and things get done.
Trump has said some things that are incredibly inartful but is not a white supremacist or a racist. The things that he’s often talking about tend to be actual problems that Democrats themselves have acknowledged in the past”.
Perhaps the difference is, however hurtful people need the truth. The President talks like the ordinary man. Sometimes simplistic and lacking civility but so does the ordinary person who feels the President is speaking to them and their problems, not just speaking at them.
The point of all this is why are the views of liberal elitists writing in the New Yorker magazine about how the residents of West Baltimore feel, far more important than the views expressed by the residents themselves?
Craig, the longer you remain silent and ignore everything that destroys the myth of hatred you’ve built up as a “never Trumper” the longer you will continue fuel the fires of hatred in America.
Joe Biden, and nearly all the leading Democrats have been loud and vociferous in condemning Donald Trump for inspiring the El Paso shooting.
In contrast, the President carefully emphasized that none of the Democrat candidates was responsible for the Dayton shooting, or for that matter the Bernie Saunders Campaign worker who decided to mass murder Republican Congresspeople at a social baseball game.
Just as Jodie Foster isn’t responsible for John Hinckley shooting Pres. Ronald Reagan and two others.
If all political candidates were forced to never say anything that could be construed by anyone as offensive, for fear of being blamed for inspiring and unbalanced person into an act of murderous violence, the whole nation would become paranoid and frozen with fear.