Posted on 08/02/2019 6:04:55 PM PDT by ebb tide
August 2, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece took Washington, D.C.’s Catholic archbishop to task for characterizing President Donald Trump’s recent comments on Baltimore as racist.
“I’ve read the statement by Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory suggesting that President Trump’s [tweets] about squalor in Baltimore are racist and I have to disagree,” said Dr. Alveda King, director of Civil Rights for the Unborn for Priests for Life.
“President Trump is not a racist. A racist is a person who doesn’t get Acts 17:26: ‘Of one blood God made all people.’ I know President Trump understands that and I’m sure Archbishop Gregory does as well.”
Last Saturday, Trump tweeted that Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings should spend more time cleaning up his district than criticizing the administration’s immigration policies at 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……,” tweeted Trump.
“….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming 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,” he added in a second tweet.
Archbishop Gregory criticized the President’s remarks in an August 1 piece that appeared in the Catholic Standard.
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory
“I fear that recent public comments by our President and others and the responses they have generated, have deepened divisions and diminished our national life. In particular, I join my brother Archbishop William Lori in sadness and deep regret for the ways our Maryland neighbors in Baltimore have been denigrated in recent public attacks,” Gregory wrote.
“We all need to reject racism, disrespect or brutality in speech and action,” he added later in his piece.
King, in an open letter to the archbishop published today on NewsMax, called out the archbishop for not understanding what racism is.
Seemingly, all too many people don’t understand what racism is and who is racist and who is not. Actually, regarding racism, the problem is not skin color. Science and religion both affirm that as human beings, we are all one blood, one human race.
“[Creator] God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth” – Acts 17:26
The words “racism” and “racist” are terms recklessly bandied about in the race card game; all of which is a deceptive, socially engineered decoy, creating oppressors and victims. This deception stirs the emotions while denying the much needed transformational civility, equality, justice, and freedom for all.
Sir, with all due respect, by scientific and spiritual definition, a racist is someone who denies scientific and spiritual evidence; that humans are one race.
As one who has encountered and resisted racism all of my life, I know a racist when I see a racist. I can assure you President Trump is not a racist
King noted in a press release about her open letter that Dr. Ben Carson made similar comments about Baltimore.
“As my friend and HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson has said, there are some areas in Baltimore marred by squalor and the people of the city are suffering because of it. It was not racist when he said that in driving through the city, he saw able-bodied young men sitting idle on porches. It was not racist to suggest these men should be put to work cleaning up the city, to everyone’s benefit.”
“We all need to acknowledge that Baltimore and other inner city areas across our country have problems. It is not racist to acknowledge these problems and President Trump is not racist for pointing them out,” she said.
Cummings confirmed today that there was an attempted burglary on his house this past Saturday – “about four hours” before Trump began tweeting about his high-crime district, according to Fox News.
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Shame on you! Do not judge, lest you be judged.
Who gives a crap? Quit responding to it. The right always reacting to it is precisely why they keep doing it. It keeps the right on it’s heels. I don’t care one iota what the left says or thinks. They hold no moral high ground on race or anything else.
If the Archbishop wants to get political, he invites a political response. I wonder what an investigation of his background and actions might reveal?
What is all this Trump is a racist crap. Are they auditioning for someone to be the 2019 LHO?
Virtue signaling to violence signaling. It’s just a shot away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os
(It’s not “crossfire hurricane” JJF...it’s GS)
LBJ was an overt racist in private and White House conversations daily. KKK was proud of the Dems who kept it on top for decades. Like Byrd.
But control of the media means people only hear the lying propaganda that Trump is a racist. And Reagan, now.
Including having his "Church" taxed as a political organization.
Gregory is homo-friendly and his nickname is Queen of the Nile. That's all one needs to know.
deNIGRated? this woke thing can be pressed ad nauseum if it has to be.
Does His Excellency want to take sides or does he want positive change?
She’s awesome. He is obviously not a racist. God forbid if we ever did get a real racist in the office...what would the ‘rats do then?
“Yeah, forget what we said about Trump—this guy, right now, he’s bad.”
Trump has done so much more for African-Americans than O’Bumma ever did!
Yes, she appears to be a sane and goodly voice. The sh!tbag archbishop can go to hell.
I am idly waiting for the ‘dump’ of ALL the pictures of DJT the builder, TV ‘star’, city enhancer etc etc etc of ALL the so called ‘Black’ leaders paying homage to ‘The Donald’ to try and get their claws into the ‘money’.
J Jackson made a life of it and it is quite interesting that he is very silent during these accusatory times.
Sharpton is not ‘sharp’ enough to figure it out - then again, BO pumped new life into the race pimp ...
Sad to say but a ‘rich capitalist’ has to play both sides of the table, never really want to weewee off a future ‘opponent’ that holds the string if possible.
In ref to the pictures etc we already know that people ‘sucked up’ to DJT because of his ‘celebrity’ and the in thing was to get a pic with him and, yes, he is an egotisical ham so he loved it when the beauties showed up for a pic and couldn’t really run a BI on whoever was ‘next in line’ for the photo op.
Doubt at the time many of them were taken the LAST thing in his mind was PDJT.....<: <: <:
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