Posted on 07/18/2020 3:22:41 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., one of the nation’s most preeminent civil rights figures, died Friday night, according to reports. He was 80. The congressman had been battling pancreatic cancer.
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A 23-year-old firebrand, Lewis toned down his intended remarks at the insistence of others, dropping a reference to a “scorched earth” march through the South and scaling back criticisms of President John Kennedy. It was a potent speech nonetheless, in which he vowed: “By the forces of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in an image of God and democracy.”
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In an early setback for Barack Obama’s 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Lewis endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for the nomination. Lewis switched when it became clear Obama had overwhelming Black support.
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Lewis refused to attend Trump’s inauguration, saying he didn’t consider him a “legitimate president” because Russians had conspired to get him elected. When Trump later complained about immigrants from “s---hole countries,” Lewis declared, “I think he is a racist ... we have to try to stand up and speak up and not try to sweep it under the rug.”
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Lewis issued a statement on Jan. 5 slamming the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Unforgiveable.
Doesn’t RBG have pancreatic cancer? Hmmmm.
Good bye John Lewis
>>Good bye John Lewis
Good riddance is more like it.
I never liked the way he talked. He seemed like a illiterate dumbshit.
I thought he died a few months ago.
Hopefully they will have a succession of funerals befitting such a man. Kind of a cross between Aretha Franklin’s, John McCain’s and George Floyd’s. May he rest in peace.
Who?
BINGO!! Let’s watch the rioting and looting during his funerals in ATLANTA and DC!! The DEMOCRATS sure know how to do rowdy funerals.
My lasting (and only) memory of him is the anti-UbungaCare protest in DC, which I attended, when he lied about some white guy spitting on him. I was mere feet away from him at the time. The stench of being that close to Lewis, Pelosi, Hoyer and the rest of those Democrat freaks was overwhelming.
Booker T Washington warned us about race hustlers like him...100+ years ago.
That was Elijah Cummings. It's easy to confuse the two. Each was an ignorant, black, racist congressman.
Politics was the only "legitimate" career he could have chosen...he was never gonna make it as a rocket scientist.
It will most likely be a political rally.
Lewis was a race hustler.
Always ready to run to any race incident to yell and get attention for himself.
One tiny step ahead of Sharpton.
He marched in selma and that was good, and that was the last good thing this bigot did.
Doesn't rbg have the same kind of cancer?
She is one tough old buzzard.
That was Cummings, another puke.
I figured he must not have been well during the BLM riots because the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed and other shootings have since taken place is in his district. He wasn’t front and center down there blaming Donald Trump and everyone but the perps.
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