The ex-President dissed Atlanta…
He dissed 2020 Georgia election workers…..
He attacked the Black DA of Fulton County …..
He allotted to a racist view of the place….
The people of the city came out to watch a disgraced ex-President ride past them in a stupidity long parade of vehicles for a private citizen on the way to be arrested for a FOURTH time that talked garbage about them and their city….
Trump’s campaign spread a false narrative that two Black Fulton County election workers — Ruby Freeman and her adult daughter Shaye Moss — had been key to the fraud. Trump has repeatedly attacked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the charges against him and is Black, as “so racist.”
The areas that Trump traveled through Thursday are deeply intertwined with America’s record of racial strife and discrimination. Even the street signs reflect the connection: Lowery Boulevard, named for the Atlanta-based Black minister and civil rights advocate who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Martin Luther King Jr., was until 2001 named for a Confederate general.
On Trump’s way down Lowery to the jail, he passed Morehouse College, the historically Black institution that is King’s alma mater; the Bankhead neighborhood, where rappers T.I. and Lil Nas X grew up and found inspiration; and the English Avenue community, where the local elementary school was dynamited during the contentious integration of the city’s public schools.
Before the motorcade came through, residents and office workers rushed to get spots on sidewalks, stoops and balconies. Trump, who has proclaimed his innocence, later recounted on Newsmax that he had been greeted by “tremendous crowds in Atlanta that were so friendly.” Some cellphone videos that ricocheted around social media showed a different reaction, with people shouting obscenities or making crude gestures as the convoy sped by.
Those who were there suggest the response was more complicated, with Trump’s unexpected arrival — and rapid departure — prompting feelings of catharsis and anger, awe and disgust, indignance and pride…..
top image….Bystanders gather near the intersection of Lowery and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards in Atlanta as former president Donald Trump rides in a motorcade while traveling from the Fulton County Jail on Thursday….Joe Raedle/Getty
bottom image…Former president Donald Trump rides in a motorcade as he travels from the airport to the Fulton County Jail Thursday in Atlanta… Joe Raedle/Getty