[Politics] Is Baltimore really a crime and rodent infested area?

symyjym said:

The alternative "Trump is racist" narrative:

https://youtu.be/uCcz0cVY1t8

https://youtu.be/lSJgnKcXVLE

It's good to hear the

WARNING: This is not a Fox News presentation. Just another side of the argument from people who actually live in the US.

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Easy 10 said:

The Wire made it look like a hellhole, but then as others have said, most cities will always have deprived areas.

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Easy 10 said:

The Wire made it look like a hellhole

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Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, has a history of racist speech and actions that have widely been viewed as racially-charged. Many journalists, as well as friends and former employees of Trump, have criticized him for fueling racism in the United States.[1][2][3][4] Trump has repeatedly denied accusations of racism and bigotry. In a 2018 interview he stated "I am not a racist. I'm the least racist person you have ever interviewed".[5]

In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for housing discrimination against African-American renters—a lawsuit which ended in a settlement.[6][7][8] The Justice Department sued again in 1978, claiming continued racial discrimination and a breach of the original agreement, but that case expired in 1982 without resolution.[9]

In 2011, Trump became the leading proponent of the already discredited "Birtherism" conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the US, repeating the claim for the following five years.[10][11] In a notorious and racially charged case, Trump continued to insist, as late as 2019,[12][13] that a group of black and Latino teenagers were guilty of the 1989 rape of a white woman in the Central Park jogger case, despite the fact that the five had been officially exonerated in 2002, following the confession of an imprisoned serial rapist, confirmed by DNA evidence.[14][15][16]

Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech where he stated of Mexican immigrants: "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people".[17][18] Later, his claims that a Mexican-American judge should be disqualified due to his ethnicity were criticized as racist. He tweeted fake statistics claiming that African Americans are responsible for the majority of murders of white Americans, and in some speeches he linked African Americans and Hispanics with violent crime.[19] During his presidency, comments he made following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, were perceived as implying a moral equivalence between white supremacist marchers and those who protested against them. In 2018, during an Oval Office meeting about immigration reform, he referred to El Salvador, Haiti, and African countries as "shitholes"; this comment was internationally condemned as racist.[20][21][22] In July 2019, Trump tweeted that Democratic congresswomen needed to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came".[23] The statement was criticized by news outlets such as The Atlantic as a common racist trope.[24]

Trump's controversial statements have been condemned by many observers in the U.S. and around the world,[7][25][26] but excused by some of his supporters either as a rejection of political correctness[27][28] or because they harbor similar racial sentiments.[29][30] Several studies and surveys have stated that racist attitudes and racial resentment have fueled Trump's political ascendance, and have become more significant than economic factors in determining the party allegiance of U.S. voters.[30][31]

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TSB said:

Why would you need an alternative when it's commonly known that he's racist?

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schmunk said:

No, that was set somewhere else - "Boma", I think.

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Palacefinder General said:

** public health warning, NOT for the faint-hearted **

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Easy 10 said:

Not sure if I'm being whooshed here ("Boma?), but the Wire was most certainly set and produced in Baltimore.

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