Black lawmakers to boycott
Trump's Jamestown visit
Associated Press,
by
Sarah Rankin
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/29/2019 5:43:11 PM
Richmond, Va.—Virginia’s black state lawmakers announced Monday they will boycott an event this week commemorating the beginnings of American democracy because President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend. The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus said its members would not attend a ceremony in Jamestown on Tuesday marking the 400th anniversary of the first representative assembly in the Western Hemisphere. “The commemoration of the birth of this nation and its democracy will be tarnished unduly with the participation of the President, who continues to make degrading comments toward minority leaders, promulgate policies that harm marginalized communities, and use racist and xenophobic rhetoric,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/29/2019 5:48:57 PM (No. 137352)
Racists!! Boycotting a White man
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ming 7/29/2019 5:50:32 PM (No. 137354)
This from the state that still refuses to bounce the 'Coonman' governor and the sexual harassing Lt. governor out of office. The left's hypocrisy is boundless.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kdsils60 7/29/2019 5:57:37 PM (No. 137358)
Folks... this garbage isn't working like it use to... go on, rascists... boycott our President because he has called our your congress plantation owners for the determination to keep your cities "rat infested"... but, a lot of minorities are starting to "see the light"! The percentages of black and latino are steadily rising for President Trump and nothing causes more fear in "rats" than stripping away their dependency base (that doesn't want to be dependent anymore - they are working and liking what the President is doing for them and their families)! Go on, protest, complain, yell... we are not listening anymore!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/29/2019 6:01:39 PM (No. 137361)
They told everyone this a few weeks ago. No one cares.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LooseCannon 7/29/2019 6:04:56 PM (No. 137362)
Nothing like acknowledging to the world your ignorance and racism. Good goin', Virginia Legislative Black Caucus.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zzzghy 7/29/2019 6:05:50 PM (No. 137364)
Bummer.
Heh, we'll just have to soldier on...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 6:06:18 PM (No. 137366)
And the quality of the group goes WAY up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 7/29/2019 6:09:55 PM (No. 137373)
So don't go. I wouldn't give a s if you were there or not with that attitude.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/29/2019 6:18:17 PM (No. 137384)
They're scheduled to be in white-face somewhere else, I imagine.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/29/2019 6:28:42 PM (No. 137397)
You have to wonder when was the last time even ONE of these black lawmakers spent any time in Elijah Cummings District..I would bet they can't recall. In fact, I bet Elijah Cummings can't recall when he was last in his district.
I bet the people of Baltimore are sick and tired of all the corruption. Everyone knows that Trump is a builder. In truth, they know if he was in charge, that district would get cleaned up and be made livable. No one can say the district was not provided with the monies to transform it; in fact, plenty of monies were provided to prevent it from ever deteriorating to the state it is in in the first place.
They could start by increasing the garbage pick-ups.
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So a bunch of left wing hacks are not going. Who cares?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/29/2019 6:47:16 PM (No. 137423)
maybe they could send a stand-in..
Coonman, or Ted Danson?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
kewmac 7/29/2019 6:55:30 PM (No. 137433)
Each day it becomes more apparent that we should have just picked our own cotton.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/29/2019 7:08:38 PM (No. 137442)
They're just Virginia black state lawmakers; the event is open to Virginia state lawmakers only. Good grief!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 7/29/2019 7:10:02 PM (No. 137444)
Blacks scream racism when they were barred from the dance. The blacks screamed when they were allowed to have their own dance but were barred from the dance. The blacks screamed when they were allowed to the dance but no one there would dance with them. Now they are welcome to the dance and they scream because they get treated equally. Go pound sand. You can scream until the rats are gone, I don't care.
President Trump spoke the truth and all we hear is these dolts screaming. I want to hear from the people in the neighborhood. Ialso want an audit of all federal tax dollars that in any way went to that district.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rochow 7/29/2019 7:20:06 PM (No. 137455)
What a pompous group of racists! If course blacks want to be respected as I hear every drug dealer demand on a police show. Guess the other way around they want to make their non gravitas be seen, heard or whatever. Stay away! Fine with the rest of us!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/29/2019 7:22:00 PM (No. 137457)
So?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rada 7/29/2019 7:32:32 PM (No. 137467)
I wonder why there are no Legislative White/Hispanic/Asian/Transgender etc. Caucuses?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dwa 7/29/2019 7:52:23 PM (No. 137488)
We're supposed to see and treat Blacks as equals, yet, time after time, Black "leadership's" response to things is that of a child of five. Respect is earned, not given because of your color or gender or ??
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/29/2019 9:09:19 PM (No. 137540)
If I remember my history correctly, there were no blacks in Jamestown. The communists found out for the first time how well their economic system worked and one of the results decades later was the declaration of independence. So get off your high horse, already.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/29/2019 10:12:32 PM (No. 137588)
Relax, it is only the AP. Besides, not ALL Black legislators will boycott the President's Jamestown visit.
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Get over yourselves. I would have been happy to go. One of my family ancestors went to Jamestown in the 1600's. Another to New England.
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It's OK to be an unabashed racist, provided you're black. Will Gov. Ralph "Coonman" Northham attend in their stead, in blackface?