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Atlanta Mayor Reed to Trump: “John Lewis an American hero. Full stop.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1/14/17 | Leon Stafford

Posted on 01/14/2017 12:53:55 PM PST by madprof98

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed pushed back Saturday on President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment of civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ district.

In a series of tweets, Reed said: “John Lewis is an American hero & a national treasure. Period. Full stop.

“That PEOTUS Trump would attack Congressman Lewis on MLK Day weekend for “all talk…no action” when he bled to actually “Make America Great” is why far less than half the country supports him at the dawn of his presidency.”

Trump said Lewis’s district was “in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested)” in an early Saturday tweet.

Leaders throughout the metro area voiced their opinions Saturday on the controversy, including Georgia Republicans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 115th; atlanta; cbc; civilrights; democrats; donaldtrump; dopeydems; ga; johnlewis; kasimreed; lewis; liberals; reed; trump
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To: GoldenPup

They’ll eventually realize Trump was elected because many voters tired of the fact that unassimilated minority communists who contributed nothing were steering this nation of ours. When those same Reds lash out, Trump voters feel vindication.


81 posted on 01/14/2017 2:55:16 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: madprof98

He is a has been civil rights agitator.


82 posted on 01/14/2017 3:11:42 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: madprof98
John Lewis will NEVER be my hero. I don't care what happened to him if he is going to act the way he has been acting the last 20 years. Screw him. If he would suffer his abuse and then do what is right, he would have honor. Now, he has brought dishonor on himself. Go full Genghis Khan on him.
83 posted on 01/14/2017 3:29:03 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: winner3000
Lewis is a scumbag. A scumbag who years ago walked with great man, MLK. Other scumbags walked with that great man, including Jackson and Sharpton. That doesn’t mean that they are anything today other than scumbags.

Spot on.

84 posted on 01/14/2017 3:30:18 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Parmy

That still doesn’t give them the right to abuse the system like they have. I have been SEVERELY mistreated as a public school teacher for being conservative. And, I do mean severely. What should I do? Screw them.


85 posted on 01/14/2017 3:32:01 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: madprof98

what part of, he “accused him {Trump} of not being legitimate,” mayor, don’t you get?

look in the mirror and fix your community...


86 posted on 01/14/2017 3:36:18 PM PST by DEEP_e
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To: rstrahan

John Lewis: American Race Pimp. Full Stop.


87 posted on 01/14/2017 3:39:32 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: madprof98

Voting is the very definition of a “civil right” and this semi-literate claimed mine was illegitimate. Icon my ass!


88 posted on 01/14/2017 3:42:46 PM PST by The Toll
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To: madprof98

“An American Hero” who doesn’t understand the way that America works - that once one wins a majority of the electoral votes in an election he is the actual president and not “illegitimate” - I don’t think so......


89 posted on 01/14/2017 4:26:20 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: madprof98

That’s nice, Mayor Kasim.

But what has Congressman Lewis done lately? Sounds like not much.


90 posted on 01/14/2017 4:29:45 PM PST by GCC Catholic (Make America Great Again!)
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To: madprof98

Truth hurts.


91 posted on 01/14/2017 4:29:50 PM PST by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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To: madprof98

Lewis is the descendant of Africans that were conquered and sold. They were inferior in enough ways they couldn’t prevent capture and being sold.

Now on the eve of their King’s day they do all sorts of stuff that stupidly reflects their inferior tribal heritage


92 posted on 01/14/2017 4:34:09 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: achilles2000

You’re too generous; I’m done with this 8 year charade that there is anything remotely “American” about many of these people. Not because I disagree with them, mind you; I just don’t see any element of respect for (never mind knowledge of) the legal workings of this country, or anything at this point beyond demanding access to other peoples’ wages.

John Lewis is the kind of cultureless trash that Obama would refer to as “who we are”...enough said.


93 posted on 01/14/2017 7:21:28 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Thibodeaux

Sadly, MLK (for all his flaws) seemed to be much more “American” than those who spun an entire industry out of the legitimate grievances more than half a century ago.

Most of today’s “black leaders” have basically waved the white flag of surrender in terms of ever competing on equal terms with EVERY non-black population; at this point it is just about paying them off to let People That Matter go about their business (which includes providing everything for our black population).


94 posted on 01/14/2017 7:25:23 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: HarleyD

The word Hero has little or no meaning anymore


95 posted on 01/14/2017 7:48:29 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: madprof98
John Lewis is an American hero

Who made an ass of himself and should be called out for it.

96 posted on 01/14/2017 9:41:17 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: riverdawg

It was the catalyst for destroying the White Democrat party, which had previously been 100% in control of the South.


97 posted on 01/15/2017 4:27:32 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: madprof98

DJT to Atlanta Mayor... GFY.


98 posted on 01/15/2017 4:31:01 AM PST by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: rstrahan
What John Lewis did 50 years ago

What is the condition of Selma, Alabama today, and why?

99 posted on 01/15/2017 4:38:07 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: madprof98
Between 2000 and 2013, poverty in Atlanta’s suburbs had the highest rate of change of any metro region of its size.

John Lewis 5th Congressional District

Example of Lewis caring for his district: Abandoned houses on English Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, August 23, 2012. Photograph by Keizers. Courtesy of Keizers, CC BY-SA. Atlanta's black population lives principally in the region's suburbs, leading to a rise in abandoned properties in historically black neighborhoods in the city's center.

100 posted on 01/15/2017 6:41:26 AM PST by KeyLargo
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