House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings says President Trump's racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen of color bring back memories of the racism he faced as a child growing up in Baltimore
Washington House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said President Donald Trump's racist tweets aimed at four congresswomen of color bring back memories of the racism he faced as a child growing up in Baltimore.
"We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community," Cummings told ABC's"This Week" on Sunday."As we tried to March to that pool over six days, I was beaten, all kinds of rocks and bottles thrown at me."The Maryland Democrat said Trump's racist remarks echo the same insults he heard as a 12-year-old boy in 1962, which he said were"very painful.
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