Posted on 01/17/2017 3:23:27 PM PST by Pinkbell
The eruption of hostilities between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) may be recorded as just one more example of what has become standard Twitter retaliation for Trump.
But coming on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, it also reignited the passions around Trump’s difficult history with African Americans, the group of voters from whom he might be most alienated as he prepares to move into the White House this week.
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Friday, Lewis said he did not regard Trump to be “a legitimate president” because of allegations that high-level Russian operatives interfered in the election on Trump’s behalf. Trump lobbed back with a tweet in the early hours of Saturday morning that disparaged both the congressman and his district, which includes some of Atlanta’s most affluent neighborhoods.
“Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart,” Trump wrote. “(Not to . . .” — in fact, he needed two tweets to finish the thought — “mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk — no action or results. Sad!”
Trump continued his taunts in a separate tweet Saturday evening, saying Lewis should “finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!”
Trump’s attack on Lewis drew widespread condemnation across party lines, particularly given Lewis’s role in the fight for black voting rights.
“John Lewis is beyond a doubt the conscience of the country and that’s why his people [constituents] send him to Congress,” said Kwame Lillard, an activist who helped to organize the civil-rights-era Freedom Rides and has known Lewis for more than 60 years.
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Blacks have had 150 years to get their sh*t together and embrace western civilization. If they continue to be leftist, racist and stupid, they should be invited to leave and go embrace African values in Africa.
Yup.
Shoulda just let the winning black tribes to just have slaughtered the losers instead of selling them. Shoulda just let the muslim slave traders keep em.
“...let the winning tribes slaughter the losers...”
Well, that appears to be exactly what they are doing in the inner-cities now, slaughtering each other.
If it were just them, and no others....but it isn’t.
feud? taunts? attacks? Seems to me Lewis hit the mudslinging first (as he did with Bush) and the author feels compelled to join in.
For some people, it will likely be the first time in their lives they will actually experience having a strong, straight, man with vision and can-do spirit in charge of things. Those frightened by shadows in the night can remain in the mudpit clinging to their diaper pins and crayons, or they can grow up, but The Deplorables won’t spend time waiting for them to decide what to do. Steady on. God Bless President Trump and God bless The Deplorables.
Ironic they can’t make the connection - Lewis is a racist who considers and White Republican President to be illegitimate....
They are rattled because blacks could have delivered the White House to Hillary (with stronger support in PA, MI, WI) and didn’t; they are whipping them back onto the plantation with this fake story.
These people have no shame, the result of having no integrity.
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