"Love it or hate it, this is the reality of life in Baltimore, and no amount of sugarcoating and racial grievance mongering by Blackwell will change that. Nor will his tears and false equivalences change the fact that in recent days Baltimore has been hit with “brazen attacks†involving civilians being brutally beaten had having their heads stomped in."
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I saw Blackwell when he spoke of Trump's rant against Cummings, said what he did about Baltimore. Blackwell was okay at the beginning, then toward the end of his comments, he stopped speaking.
I thought he must be putting something up for people to see, then I realized he was about to lose his composure and cry; there was a tremble in his face muscles; this was real not contrived, there was a long dead space; finally he began to speak and related he grew up in Baltimore, went to school and college there.
Earlier in his talk, he spoke of Trump using the word, "infested" and played numerous times Trump spoke of places being "infested". Trump has that word to use when he doesn't like a place. If that area did not vote for him, he says it is "infested".
Trump said: “Cumming[sic] 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.†Well, Cummings leaves Washington every day and goes back to Baltimore - he does not live in Washington:
"Mr. Cummings responded on Twitter shortly afterward, saying that he was a vigorous advocate for his district. “Mr. President, I go home to my district daily,†he wrote. “Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.â€