Trumps Inner Cities Fetish Is Nostalgic, Messy Racism

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!
7:22 PM - 14 Jan 2017

Parker Molloy ?@ParkerMolloy 31m31 minutes ago
Trump loves to talk about "inner cities," but doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

...from October:



Oliver Willis @owillis
im sure its a coincidence that whenever trump is referring to a black person - ben carson, steve harvey, john lewis - he talks about crime

[Generic Brad]

1. Maybe Trump should instead focus on improving parts of the country he thinks need help

BY the end of next week he will actually be in a position to do something other than griping and sniping.

[Gibs4Bernie]

2. Totally agree! Trump should stop pretending and cancel his inner city improvement plan.

We all know he doesn't really care!!!

[uponit7771]

3. Benedict Donald is a racist fuck

[Cha]

4. drumpfuck is a horror show

[tazkcmo]

5. How would he know?

When was the last time Herr Drumpf spent any time at all outside of one of his properties? To him, suburbs consisting of $500k homes is "inner city" and "slum". Fuck off, Drumpf.

[Warpy]

6. Yeah, the suburbs overtook the cities as poverty centers a decade ago

thanks to the last Republican's stupidity. Inner cities have been gentrified, pushing poor folks farther out and away from their jobs. Marginal workers are now living in shelters or makeshift housing.

This asshole hasn't read anything since the 60s. He gets everything from talk radio and the TV.

[Igel]

7. It's a mix.

Last decent model had a donut, sort of like Rochester's inner crescent. Downtown, nice; suburbs nice.

Now the suburbs are mixed, partly because of cheap housing and partly because of subsidized housing. Houston has a lot of territory inside the city that's some of the poorest I've seen. Outside, there are some poor suburbs but mostly pockets of poverty are apartments that were subsidized with rental assistance.