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Sunday, August 09, 2015

Rep. Cummings: ‘Black Lives Have To Matter To Black People’

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The nonstop spike in crime from month to month has one of Maryland’s top congressional leaders begging for an end to what he calls “black on black” violence.

Marcus Washington with more on Congressman Elijah Cummings’ emotional call for peace.

It’s not often we see a man beg publicly, but that is what’s happening when it comes to the homicides and shootings in Baltimore. Congressman Cummings is not alone, as he is begging for it to stop.

It’s the constant tragedy that is becoming normality in Baltimore City. Each month, city police are recording some of the highest homicides per month in decades.

“And so I’m begging you–put your guns down–put your guns down and allow people to live,” said Congressman Elijah Cummings.

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26 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey cummings, how come all your bullsh!t gun control won't stop your hommies from shooting each other? I thought you said gun control was the answer to crime.

Anonymous said...

The question is.. will Cummings and the others mentally make the connection between the policies they have advocated and the results they are seeing..

or will it still be those darn republicans at fault?

Most of what we're seeing here is undisciplined children acting out in very violent ways, prompted and encouraged by inflammatory rhetoric from many of their black leaders.

Anonymous said...

I am no fan of Elijah Cummings, but I have to admit he has finally told the truth. Blacks kills blacks by the hundreds and no one says a thing; but let one white police officer kill a black an it is a Federal offense. The Department of Justice under Holder took the same approach. I am not suggesting that all cops are good, but it is a waste of resources to focus on cops and ignore the real killers of intercity blacks!

Obama and Holder had an opportunity to really close the racial divide, but even as two of the most powerful men in the world all they could see was discrimination and if they can't find it they manufacture it.

Anonymous said...

He WAS NOT spewing that 5 months ago.

Anonymous said...

I'd be more impressed if he simply said "black violence", because black on white violence is an epidemic as well. They are violent people, at least their propensity for it is exponentially increased, the larger their numbers in one place.

Anonymous said...

Elijah's vapid, pro welfare policies created this, and now he is begging. You are no leader - you were a misguided young man in the 60's who jumped on the racial justice bandwagon, and wound up believing your own black power nonsense. Now look what you've done to this country you destructive POS.

Anonymous said...

Elijah you are only about 25 years to late in making this statement. A real leader would have stepped up to the plate years ago.

Anonymous said...

Exactly right 1:01. When he starts making sense there is something up.

Anonymous said...

It all began with Pres.Lyndon Johnson's "GREAT SOCIETY" in the mid 60's. Basically it started the trend for women to have all the babies they wanted, let the baby daddy off the hook and the taxpayers would foot the bill for the expenses of the children and the mother.
No longer was there any shame in out-of-wedlock children due to the government paying women to have them. Have as many babies as you want and the working class will pay for them.
This is why we now have generations of feral children running wild in schools and in the streets. Their motto is "no school, no rules, no work, no punishment, no respect for anyone, including themselves. So much for the Progressive Movement.

Concerned Retiree said...

Cummings is a joke and always has been. Him and his DemocRAT / Liberal / Socialist Poilitians, mainly him and Rawlings who put these idiots in charge of Baltimore, has created this monster. Now they refuse to admit failure and mismanagement of the millions of dollars they have funneled into Baltimore. Is he not up for re-election? If so he will spread his BS until then.

Anonymous said...

Can we all just take a look at Ms. Mosby's face in the back ground? She looks like she is read to punch him in the back of the head. Probably hates the fact that he is pointing out this issue. It takes away part of her political thunder.

Anonymous said...

Mosby a putrid person both inside and out. She's got that under bite going from years of being an angry person. Probably mad because her "5 generations of police officers" are all criminal police officers and they got caught. Mother police officer was maybe still is a crack head, father and other breaking the law while in uniform and getting caught. Ghetto family all the way. And the blacks praise her.
It's no damn wonder they are killing each other off like there is no tomorrow. Morals, principles, honesty, character are all basically nonexistent in black communities.

Anonymous said...

Hey Cummings - ALL LIVES MATTER!

Anonymous said...

I just did. Man that girl looks like "I'm going down in flames just like the rest of my family " GOOD!! I wonder how low the standards were for her? I'm not a lawyer but I know you wait for ALL the facts before making a case.

Ray said...

It does not matter what any black leaders say, the end of the line is near and all black thugs are trying to grab what they can. The end in near.

Anonymous said...

I agree all lives matter. But if you are going to support this slogan, at least support it all the way through. Don't just use it when it is convenient. Use it when young black teens are being gunned down in broad daylight in the middle of the street. Use it when Baltimore reports 11 shootings in a weekend, use it when Chicago has the highest murder rate it has ever seen in the inner cities. Don't just pull it out when a police officer shoots a man with a 20 page long rap sheet.

Anonymous said...

Black people need to get their act together.

Anonymous said...

Blacks does not have a monopoly on violence. Society on a whole has become more violent. Nationally Caucasians commit for violent crime per capital than any other ethnic group.

Anonymous said...

Right on the money.

Anonymous said...

We all need to get our act together. No good comes out of us fight and killing each other. The enemy is watch and planning to destroy us from a distant.

Anonymous said...

When will the 73% of the population wake up against these Thugs?

Anonymous said...

Duh!

Anonymous said...

Terrorists need to be killed,like Sadaam Hussein stated.

Steve said...

I wonder when Elijah will vote to allow the 2A here in Maryland to stop this violence?

Anonymous said...

I thought this guy was in jail?

Anonymous said...

"Support this slogan"...how about when am unarmed innocent WHITE person is shot and killed at a traffic stop?

Blacks would gain credibility if they "protested" when a white person was unjustly
killed by police. Better yet, if the black on white mob violence ends.