by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Several days ago Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City of New York would begin painting "Black Lives Matter" in large yellow letters on the streets in several locations around the metropolis, with one those locations being on a section of Fifth Avenue that just so happens to be in front of Trump Tower. The mayor said that the painting was to show respect to the "Black Lives Matter" movement. Many suspected that the the choice to paint the message in front of Trump Tower might have also been to antagonize America's racist-in-chief, Donald John Trump.
Trump, for his part, tried to ignore the provocation for a few days, but early this week he succumbed to his rage and went on the attack. In a barely sentient rampage targeting Mayor de Blasio, Trump roared that the painting outside of his New York headquarters and home - on what he described as a "luxury" avenue - would be a "symbol of hate" and would "denigrate" the street.
It was not immediately clear where Trump learned the word "denigrate" or how to use it in a sentence.
(On the other side of that coin, some residents of New York City feel that Trump's name on buildings in their city are symbols of hate that denigrate the streets.)
Trump then went on to try and instigate the New York City police department into joining his side in the battle with the mayor and City Hall. He noted that the city was planning on cutting a billion dollars from the city's police budget and openly suggested that the money used for painting the streets could be put to better us by the police department.
After Trump vented his spleen on the matter in a couple of tweets, Mayor de Blasio responded by calling Trump's Twitter ravings "the definition of racism."
And Julia Arredondo, a spokesperson for the BLM movement, lathered this on as well:
At this point plans to paint "Black Lives Matter" on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower are still proceeding.
There has also been a long-standing people's movement on social media to change the name of New York's Fifth Avenue - or at least the portion in front of Trump Tower - to "President Barack H. Obama Avenue," but so far the City of New York has not sanctioned that effort.
Not yet, anyway.
(Memo to Donnie Johnnie: Dividing America by race and class may not always work out the way you intended.)
Citizen Journalist
Several days ago Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City of New York would begin painting "Black Lives Matter" in large yellow letters on the streets in several locations around the metropolis, with one those locations being on a section of Fifth Avenue that just so happens to be in front of Trump Tower. The mayor said that the painting was to show respect to the "Black Lives Matter" movement. Many suspected that the the choice to paint the message in front of Trump Tower might have also been to antagonize America's racist-in-chief, Donald John Trump.
Trump, for his part, tried to ignore the provocation for a few days, but early this week he succumbed to his rage and went on the attack. In a barely sentient rampage targeting Mayor de Blasio, Trump roared that the painting outside of his New York headquarters and home - on what he described as a "luxury" avenue - would be a "symbol of hate" and would "denigrate" the street.
It was not immediately clear where Trump learned the word "denigrate" or how to use it in a sentence.
(On the other side of that coin, some residents of New York City feel that Trump's name on buildings in their city are symbols of hate that denigrate the streets.)
Trump then went on to try and instigate the New York City police department into joining his side in the battle with the mayor and City Hall. He noted that the city was planning on cutting a billion dollars from the city's police budget and openly suggested that the money used for painting the streets could be put to better us by the police department.
After Trump vented his spleen on the matter in a couple of tweets, Mayor de Blasio responded by calling Trump's Twitter ravings "the definition of racism."
And Julia Arredondo, a spokesperson for the BLM movement, lathered this on as well:
"The president is a disgrace to the values we cherish in New York City. He can't run or deny the reality we are facing, and any time he wants to set foot in the place he claims as his hometown, he should be reminded Black Lives Matter."
At this point plans to paint "Black Lives Matter" on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower are still proceeding.
There has also been a long-standing people's movement on social media to change the name of New York's Fifth Avenue - or at least the portion in front of Trump Tower - to "President Barack H. Obama Avenue," but so far the City of New York has not sanctioned that effort.
Not yet, anyway.
(Memo to Donnie Johnnie: Dividing America by race and class may not always work out the way you intended.)
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