The US President is not a good hair Baltimore: The “disgusting” town sink in the Chaos. Yes, the murder rate in Baltimore is high, and in some corners it looks to be Afraid of. But there are other pages.
The young man sways with each step. As to him on the street, an elderly lady comes to, he uses the opportunity and asks you for a Favor. With half-open eyes, he holds her lighter if she would burn his Cigarillo? The older lady is doing him a Favor, then the paths of the two separate again.
The encounter between the young man who is obviously under the influence of drugs, and the helpful old lady – both African Americans – plays on the Christian Street (see article image) in Baltimore, located in the East of the USA in the state of Maryland. The M & T Stadium, where the Baltimore Ravens play Football is just ten minutes by car – but the Christian Street might as well be in another world. Houses with bars or massive wood panels in front of the door and Windows line the street. Not all have window panes, and a house owner could Not Penetrate, “not loitering” on the wooden plate in front of his basement window sprayed. The patrolman, at the end of the street is parked, is not always on site.
The Deputy Elijah Cummings defended Baltimore to Trumps attacks
This is a side of the city, the President, Donald Trump took in his recent Twitter Tirade targeting. At the weekend, the US President had referred to the majority of African American population in Baltimore as a “disgusting, rats and rodents infested hole” where “no human being wants to live”. A culprit for this state of Affairs Trump has also been prepared: The African-American members of Elijah Cummings who sits in the city of Baltimore in Congress.
Critics found clear words to the statement of the President. To have “better a few rats, too,” writes the Baltimore Sun newspaper in a comment. The civil rights activist and Pastor Al Sharpton said at a press conference in Baltimore on Monday, trump’s words were “bigoted and racist”. The President can show “special malice against Black”.
Very popular with tourists: the Inner Harbor (archive image)
City of contrasts
The city had a completely different side, stresses Jonathan Callaway Peak. The social worker, was born in Baltimore, grew up in Atlanta and lived for five years in the city of his birth. “There are 200 unique neighborhoods,” says Callaway Peak. “I love so much about Baltimore – the food, the history, the architecture.” Criminologist Jeffrey I. Ross of the University of Baltimore has to add to the list of privileges, among other things, the alternative art scene, the touristy Inner Harbor and the passionate loyalty of the city to your teams, the Ravens and the Baseball Team the Baltimore Orioles.
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This minimizes the problems of the city. According to the Baltimore Sun alone were reported in July to 39 murders in the city. One of the murder victim Scott Franklin, 32, of the 24 was. July was shot in the Christian Street shot and still at the scene died. Three more victims were younger than 18 years. The city has one of the highest crime rates in the United States.
“We have almost every year a new police chief,” says Ross. So you don’t get the problems with crime and drugs, of course under control. The Situation is going back in part to the high unemployment. Many Jobs are broken away in the cargo port, explains the scientist. Anyone staying only a short time in Baltimore, it is clear that The problems of the city are not created overnight and cannot be solved overnight. But: “a Lot of hard work to try and end people, the challenge,” says Ross. “And the Deputy Cummings is one of them.”
“Chaos in front of its own door-to-door”
Cummings is one of the most vocal critics of Donald Trump and the President, therefore, a thorn in the eye. Many observers see Trumps sweeping blow against Baltimore as a political attack against the Congressman. “We have problems in areas such as security, unemployment and education, but many other cities also”, and criticize Trump says the city Council member Leon F. Pinkett, III, “Cummings makes in the house of representatives as Chairman of the Oversight Committee [powerful control and investigation Board, the Red.] a particularly good Job of it.”
City Council member Leon F. Pinkett, III. calls for the solutions of Trump
But Cummings also has his critics in Baltimore. Stewart Jones is sitting in his wheelchair in front of the city hall of the city in the sweltering heat and the power of his Anger: “Trump is right!” calls of local residents. “Cummings criticised for the Chaos at the border, while Chaos reigns in front of his own doorstep.”
Those who are upset about trump’s Tweets against Baltimore, complaining especially that the President will make only a rant without solution proposals. “If he were a real statesman, he would have to offer constructive ideas that contribute to solving our obvious problems,” says Callaway Peak. And city Council member Pinkett says that the President can all the blame shifted to others. “As far as I remember, is Baltimore still in America,” he says. “The city is also the President of Trumps competence.”