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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElijah Cummings at Age 11 had Courage
"Im feeling the same things that I felt when these white folks down in South Baltimore were throwing rocks and bottles at me. But now, I feel like its the president of the United States doing it.
DEMOCRATIC U.S. REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS OF BALTIMORE
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.....eleven year old Elijah Cummings and 31 companions attempted to go swimming in a city owned swimming pool in a city which has technically integrated all city owned swimming pools and which he has every right to swim in. According to the 1962 Baltimore Sun accounts of the incident, the crowd of angry whites grew to 500 in number, but the children were able to swim, thanks to the protection of about 70 Baltimore City policemen assisted by K-9 dogs. Yet the police were unable or failed to protect the children from the rocks and bottles the whites, screaming the N word and go back where you came from, threw at the black children. One of them hit Elijah in his forehead, he bears the scar on his eyebrow to this day. Civil Rights leader Juanita Jackson Mitchell, who herself had been hit and was bleeding from a rock or bottle thrown by one of the mob, put her arms around the young boy to protect him from further injury.
In contrast, what courageous thing did Donald Trump do at age 11, before he developed his unfortunate condition of bone spurs?
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-cummings-trump-20190718-o3tlhw5ybvgp3inbpxkoxv36su-story.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/30/1875388/-Elijah-Cummings-at-Age-11-had-Courage?utm_campaign=trending
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Elijah Cummings at Age 11 had Courage (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2019
OP
He was sitting on his ass eating ice cream, waiting to be shipped off to private boarding school
dalton99a
Jul 2019
#3
By contrast, at age 11, Trump was known as the neighborhood bully who threw
no_hypocrisy
Jul 2019
#4
malaise
(269,157 posts)1. Get thee to the greatest page
When will people stop hating us?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)5. When will people start throwing rocks at little Donny?
It's just about time.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)2. Well, Trump did reportedly beat up his piano teacher.
So there's that.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)3. He was sitting on his ass eating ice cream, waiting to be shipped off to private boarding school
no_hypocrisy
(46,185 posts)4. By contrast, at age 11, Trump was known as the neighborhood bully who threw
stones and other stuff at toddler in its playpens in its yard.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4539784/Even-child-Donald-Trump-horror.html