Posted on 01/24/2016 10:31:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) used a pair of appearances in Los Angeles on Saturday to urge young student activists to continue to fight for equality in the United States, warning that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump could set the country back with his divisive rhetoric aimed at immigrants and Muslims.
"I've been around a while and Trump reminds me so much of a lot of the things that George Wallace said and did," Lewis said in an interview with The Times after speaking at Cal State L.A. "I think demagogues are pretty dangerous, really. ... We shouldn't divide people, we shouldn't separate people."
"Sometimes I feel like I am reliving part of my past. I heard it so much growing up in the South," he said. "I heard it so much during the days of the civil rights movement. As a people, I just think we could do much better."(continued)
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Poor John, it looks as if he took too many blows to the head......back in the day.
LOL aren’t you brave...
Exactly.
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