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kpete

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Tue Jul 30, 2019, 10:49 AM Jul 2019

Elijah Cummings at Age 11 had Courage

“"I’m 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 it’s 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?


MORE HERE:
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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