Posted on 08/08/2019 10:43:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Reporter Confronts Residents About Trump's Baltimore Comments. They Demolish The Left's Narrative, Heckle Al Sharpton.
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Austen Fletcher, a.k.a “Fleccas,”
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On Monday, street reporter Austen Fletcher, a.k.a “Fleccas,” released about ten minutes of footage of West Baltimore residents talking about the conditions of the area and how they felt about President Donald Trump's recent comments concerning West Baltimore — which the mainstream media and many top Democrats framed as racist.
The residents told a grim story about the decline of the area they love, plagued by crime and murder, and said Trump was right in his assessment even if, as one female put it, she's still “Team Obama.”
Fleccas also highlighted another inconsistency within the mainstream narrative. When controversial activist Rev. Al Sharpton popped up in West Baltimore following Trump’s comments, residents heckled the political figure, calling him a “phony” and a “hustler” and asking why he only comes around during politically opportune times.
“It’s just sad man, everyday I’m crying inside because I wake up and I’m still here. It used to be okay, but it's not now,” one man told Fleccas’ crew.
Another woman with a legally obtained firearm on her hip, said, “You can’t go home without feeling a threat of being shot, you’re scared to walk anywhere. ... The violence is that bad.”
“Baltimore city is definitely ‘Murderland,’” she later added. “There are contracts out here for nothing, to kill someone for less than $100. The statement is definitely true. I got my gun permit eight years ago. You really have to feel some type of way that you have to be armed to live in Baltimore city — granted, mine is legal.”
“I saw a man rob a man, right here,” a man working from behind a shield at a convenience store said. “A customer went out of the door, and this guy, he just opened the door for him and put a gun to his head and he robbed him right in his car.”
“I feel like nobody cares about this area here, they’re not concerned about us,” a middle-aged female said.
Two men then complained that Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has been representing the area for 25 years and has nothing to show for it.
“He allocated $4.6 billion for illegal immigrants but he hasn’t donated any money right for North Avenue ... West Baltimore. Where has he been at? It’s drug-infested, it’s homeless people right there in West Baltimore — two blocks from his district. He don’t come there everyday. I haven’t seen Elijah Cummings in ten years ride up and down North Avenue,” one of the men said, noting that the last time he was around was following the death of Freddie Gray, which was quickly politicized.
When asked about President Trump’s comments, one of the men answered, “Me personally, I want him to say things like that because it’s true. ... I don’t have no problems with the man. I really respect him as a man because he’s upfront, he’s truthful. They keep wanting to say, ‘he a racist, he a racist, he a racist’; that’s not the problem, especially with black people, because I don’t see white men killing my own kind, you know what I mean.”
The woman with a firearm on her hip told the interviewer, “It’s sad but it’s true.” She later added, “I’m still ‘Team Obama,’ but with that being said, he’s (Trump) a powerful man and I believe he can make a lot of changes happen.”
“I don’t want to make a comment on the president, but he has a point,” the man working at the convenience store said. “Crime is very high and something has to be done.”
Two other locals had a back-and-forth over Trump suggesting “no human” would want to live in the area. “That’s true! I moved. I moved out of there. I can take you, right now, where there’s no running water in a whole block — ten minutes from Elijah Cummings’ block,” one of them said.
In another part of the video, men living in West Baltimore heckled Mr. Sharpton while he was giving a speech about Trump’s comments, painting the president as racist.
“You go back to New York! You bring that s*** to New York! You ain’t do nothing for Baltimore! You a phony!” an elderly man yells at the political figure.
“Our schools are failing us! Where are you when our schools are failing us? You’re just a hustler,” another man yells at Sharpton.
Late last month, Trump highlighted the issues in West Baltimore while going after Mr. Cummings. Trump ridiculed the top Democrat for neglecting the American people he represents to focus on the southern border.
"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," Trump said in a series of tweets. "As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. 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.”
Though the media were quick to paint Trump as a racist for calling out the conditions, during a congressional hearing in 1999, Cummings called Baltimore “a drug-infested area" where people were "walking around like zombies,” as previously reported by The Daily Wire.
The left will debunk this as staged- no doubt- and accuse the reporter of being a sell out
Many “all white” neighborhoods are considered safe. Is there such a thing as a safe “all black” neighborhood? If so, please tell me where it is.
Hey nice lady...TEAM Obama is OVER.
Most black folks I know want the madness stopped. But, then I confronted with the fact that 95% of those same folks vote Democrat. Unless they get fed-up enough to switch their votes it will continue to decline.
I think on Martha’s VINEYARD there is one...Oak something...all black I believe.
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Ah! I just thought about that as you posted. I think you are correct.
In this 2020 election....at least with black males, I think almost 50-percent of them will vote for Trump. With black females, I think it’ll be maybe half that number. But in some urbanized areas (like Baltimore or Detroit)...that would convert to some major changes over the 2016 results.
“Hey nice lady...TEAM Obama is OVER.”
Likely just not wanting to get shot. Free speech is also over
‘The left will debunk this as staged- no doubt- and accuse the reporter of being a sell out’
and no doubt 90% of blacks will vote for the democrat...
I watched the clip yesterday....the guy with the ‘W’ hat on...was thoughtful and accurately laid out the situation. I respect the guy....Baltimore needs more people like him.
I would LOVE to see President Trump hold several rallies in severely depressed black communities and tell it like it is. He is the only one I truly believe could get them to think past what they are being told by black race-baiting leaders.
You ask the same questions in Memphis you get the same answers, Horrid schools, crime, rapes, murder, even among family groups. Since I don’t go past the medical district any longer I can’t say how bad it’s gotten street wise, but Beale Street is NOT safe after dark even if it is blocked off, they slip in on foot. Once the drinking starts it not pretty. I’ts spillinng over into Mississippi, W. Memphis Ark, and starting to seep into the neighboring counties to Shelby.
More home break in killings this year than in the 5 we’ve been here. Most elderly. More alarm signs are going up, more people are armed even when they do their daily walking, they will blame it on large dogs, which I don’t see running loose. Most houses have fencing in the back. But our grocery store attracts the criminal element. People have their eyes and ears glued to their phones. You’d run them over if you weren’t watching.
Break into my house there is a 12 guage, 9 mm, and my CCW .38 revolver waiting. Ex Leo training said to be sure you empty that clip into them and not leave them alive.
God Bless Donald Trump.
By the way, I went to Oberlin for very different reasons than did the ex-Baltimore Mayor, as should be obvious!
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I am not seeing the link at the site for this video. Maybe I’m missing it?
If by calling everyone a racist they end up wrecking the race-hustling business, they’re really gonna feel the wrath of the Reverunds..
I know- it’s sick- I don’t understand how black folks keep voting democrat- the left have done nothing but suppress black folks
And BTW- a black professor or something was on fox last night- he has a book comi9ng out that the whole gun control issue was started by the left to DENY black folks the right to self defense- Back during the racial riots and martin luther king period- He’s supposedly got proof of that claim-
bttt
‘at least with black males, I think almost 50-percent of them will vote for Trump.’
Trump received 8% of the total black vote in 2016, when he caught lightning in a bottle and electrified the voting public...what makes you think that four years later, with all the subsequent crap blacks have thrown at him, that percentage will grow...?
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