Tag: elijah cummings
Can people of color be racist?
In his continuing and seemingly endless reality show series, “I Know You Are But What Am I?,” our Fifth-Grader-In-Chief has now referred to two prominent black men as racists, men who have spent their entire adult lives in the cause of working to end division and racial strife.
Congressman Elijah Cummings, chair of the powerful Oversight and Reform Committee, had a heated exchange with Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAlleenan demanding “improvement” at southern border facilities where deplorable and unsanitary conditions...
John Waters responds to Trump’s racially-charged comments calling Baltimore ‘rodent-infested’
Yesterday, Trump attacked both Baltimore and Democratic U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a leading black Congressional member who has criticized Trump and represents a large part of Baltimore as the rep for Maryland’s 7th congressional district. In response, Baltimore-born director John Waters, The Baltimore Sun, Cummings himself and others have denounced Trump in the strongest terms.
After Cummings criticized the treatment of immigrant children by U.S. Border Patrol at the southern border, Trump wrote the following tweets to deflect, distract and...