Guest Post by Walter E. Williams
Here’s what President Donald Trump tweeted about Baltimore’s congressman and his city: “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and 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. His district is considered the worst in the USA.”
“As proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient and well run, just very crowded,” Trump added. Cumming’s “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.”
President Donald Trump’s claims suggesting that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore-area district is “considered the worst run and most dangerous” has been called racist. But whether Trump’s claims have any merit is an empirical matter settled by appealing to facts. Let’s look at a few.
In 2018, Baltimore was rated one of the “Rattiest Cities” in the nation by pest control company Orkin. According to Patch Media, although there has been progress in the last few years, Baltimore ranks ninth in rat infestation, down from its sixth position two years ago on Orkin’s list.
What about safety? In 2017, St. Louis had the nation’s highest murder rate, at 66.1 homicides per 100,000 residents. Baltimore came in second, with 55.8 murders per 100,000 people. The unpleasant fact is that predominantly black and Democratic-run cities have the worst records of public safety. The Trace, an independent nonprofit news organization, using 2017 data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program, listed the 20 major U.S. cities with the highest homicide rates. After St. Louis and Baltimore, Detroit was third, with 39.8 murders per 100,000 people. Other cities with high murder rates included New Orleans; Kansas City, Missouri; Cleveland; Memphis, Tennessee; and Newark, New Jersey. With 24.1 murders per 100,000 residents, Chicago ranked ninth in the nation, followed by Cincinnati and Philadelphia. Washington, D.C., was 17th.
What about education in Baltimore? In 2016, in 13 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient on the state’s mathematics exam. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. In raw numbers, 3,804 Baltimore students took the state’s math test and 14 tested proficient. Citywide, only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state’s English test. Money is not the problem. Of the nation’s 100 largest school systems, Baltimore schools rank third in spending per pupil.
Baltimore’s black students receive diplomas that attest that they can function at a 12th-grade level when in fact they may not be able to do so at a sixth-, seventh- or eighth-grade level. These students and their families have little reason to suspect that their diplomas are fraudulent. Thus, if they cannot pass a civil service exam, they will accuse the exam of being racist. When they get poor grades in college and flunk out, they will attribute their plight to racism. The information that these black students have is that they, just as white students, have a high school diploma and the only explanation they see for unequal outcomes is racism. The same story of poor education outcomes can be told about most cities with large black populations.
The problems that black people confront are immune to who is the president of the United States. Those problems were not ameliorated when Barack Obama was president. Those problems are not going to be ameliorated by Trump’s presidency, though the black unemployment rate is considerably lower. The lesson for black people is that politicians and government handouts are not solutions. If they were, at a public expenditure that tops $22 trillion over the past half-century, black people would not be confronted with today’s problems.
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it’s obvious they simply can’t do maff. government jobs for them! (at 150% of their population percentage)
22 million $ or 222 million $, you can’t buy negroez better brains. Route negroez into vocational ed early ( those who aren’t expelled) and we might as well accept the idea of a UBI to feed the monkeys who are untrainable for anything that won’t get automated out of existence in 20 years or less. Americans stopped using them for what they were born to do 154 years ago!
Americans stopped using them for what they were born to do 154 years ago!
It was said: It took two slaves, to watch another slave do nothing.
Like 30% of government employees All Black
There are a lot of blacks with IQs near and above 100. But their culture has been (((systematically))) attacked and re-engineered to make it impossible for the smart ones to affect the whole.
Was there any doubt Trump was right?
Politics are about controlling the social mood. Or emotions, if you will.
Politics is about manipulating the malleable mass of sportsball obsessed cucked out white idiots to keep voting for the Dick Nuzzling Commies or the Gay Old Perverts like lemmings in the belief that “one day!!!!” the “right” crook will magically get in and save them instead of, to quote Mencken , “spitting on their hands, hoisting the black flag, and start slitting throats”. (paraphrased)
I think Trump was firing back, and trying to hint that people should focus on where all the Federal dollars went to, that were earmarked under Obama as funds to improve Balteemore.
Cummings district should be audited.
Where did all the Fed cash go, Elijah?
All Walter said might be factually true, but the businessman in Trump instinctively knows that unless they stop the thieving and the corruption, we are toast.
Their house is trashed, even though they were given billions to clean it up.
Individuals, and families who can’t balance a budget, keep an honest accounting, or get constantly robbed…eventually go bankrupt.
So do cities, States, Provinces, and countries.
Some guy organized 180 people (many white) to clean up a trash piled alley or courtyard looking place in Baltimore yesterday. They hauled away all the trash and left the space empty and clean. “Community leaders” or as I call them, the local poverty pimps condemned the action as racist. Apparently to the “Klan with a tan” cleaning up shit in public is “showing off.” Yeah, I don’t get it either. Neither do I get why these leaders can’t organize locals to do the same thing.
Cause niggas be usin white people an sheit
They could not even get the city to provide dumpsters to haul off the 12 TONS of trash and garbage collected. City “leaders” obviously have their priorities straight and it is NOT to help help the people rise out of poverty.
The Baltimore City schools in Cummings district should be audited. Young lives and lotsa money go in, but a dozen kinds of sicknesses come out.
I own a maintenance company in the county just south of Baltimore City. I won’t take any contracts in the City. I would have to pay a security company to watch the trucks so the locals don’t rob me blind. They [blacks] are robbing Whites in broad daylight at the inner harbor, while the media remains silent…
Have you seen this new Obama supported deal where if you can elect a Soros backed communist Black state’s attorney you can simply refuse to arrest or prosecute assaults, small theft, burglary and trespassing etc? In Shitcago the States Atty of Jussie Smollet fame was releasing shooters, arrested with cut down Kalashnikovs with 75 round drum magazines on as little as $100 bail!!!!!! Thinking this is fuqued up is RACIST! Rainbow flagger Mayor Lightfoot attacked Ivanka Trump for suggesting Chicago has a problem.
If people do not have skin in the game, then possessions mean nothing. Too many poor people (currently in the 5th generation) are living on welfare and depend on the government for their very being. This can be traced directly to the (not so) Great Society of LBJ. He knew he was going to enslave millions of poor people on Uncle Sam’s Plantation and as long as the democrats kept the free stuff flowing, they could expect the votes of the dependent.
Bulletmore would be a great place for Dr. Carson to use HUD to show how a city can be turned around, but first he has to find a way to make sure the money goes where it is needed and not siphoned off into politician’s bank accounts.
“… (not so) Great Society of LBJ.”
– TN Pat
You shouldn’t have added the parenthetical “(not so)” and forgot to add “Demonic” so the word string will correctly be: the Great Demonic Society of LBJ.
Cummings is just another babbling negro that thanks to the socialist stronghold in Maryland & Baltimore City he and his wife do quite well grafting the system . His district is a real piece of work that can only be the product of corruption at the highest levels of state government . His district covers a large portion of the city then it snakes up a northern highway and arcs over to cover a huge military installation and another area loaded with welfare recipients and government employees .
Maryland needs an electoral college for all statewide elections and congressional districts that represent the population not the DNC desires ! It’s pathetic , a leftist political animal only needs 3 areas of the state to maintain a stranglehold on an office . These areas have the most government employees and welfare recipients , imagine that !
Warning…intelligent black person talking.
Warning, stupid black talking erected to office! AKA that is not an intelligent black.