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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JL doing the race hustle along with the Congrssional Black Caucus
He gave himself to gibsmedat. It was an easy racket.
It also keeps dependency shackles on his fellow race. He ought to be very ASHAMED of it.
Gibsmedats don’t ask for too MUCH. They ask for too LITTLE, and from the wrong entity. They want messes of pottage, not blessings.
Yup...He's just giving his troops something to scream about during the inaugural protests. Protester talking points. Otherwise the protesters wouldn't know what they were there for.
Good that Trump is not letting Lewis push him around. But he needs to tell blacks that the Lewis formula of racial identity and victim mentality is not working for them — in Chicago or anywhere else.
There was no feud until John Lewis started one.
He started it but expected no push back from Trump?
Really?
I just looked it up. I was actually correct for once! I have had many Jewish friends.
I can see why you would spell it that way. Course this was dictionary . com
I think they most likely make crap up and censor their website...who knows??
:)
Lewis is a lying racist.
What scintilla of respect I had for Lewis, is gone! I have no respect, zero, nada, for that effin idiot!
I think your sources spell it that way because they confuse German and Yiddish spellings. Yiddish is dialect of German but it was written with Hebrew letters. The word for black in German is schwartz. The "W" is pronounced as a V. (Think Wagner.) Yiddish spells this with the Hebrew letter vav which is pronounced as a V.
There is an R equivalent in both the German and Yiddish, but I've never heard it pronounced, so since I'm transliterating I omit it.
ML/NJ ML/NJ
Drop pamphlets on the roof 30 minutes prior.
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I imagine just about everybody is fed up with their incessant whining.
okeedoke. Like I said, dictionary.com stinks and my pals spoke minimal Yiddish.
John Lewis is suffering from a long feud with reality. I don’t doubt that the guy earned his props on that long ago Civil Rights march. But I can separate that from his record since just like I can separate the late Sen. John Glenn’s record as a heroic NASA astronaut from his status as a partisan-hack in the US Senate. Or Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham’s Vietnam War hero-status from his criminality as a member of the House.
“Trump’s difficult history with African Americans”
What difficult history?
John Lewis is trapped in the quicksand of his past. OK. Selma. Beaten up. Got a lot of Civil Rights advanced for the betterment of all.
But please, John. Stop being a one-trick pony. Get behind efforts to turn Ghettos into Enterprise zone. Help bring prosperity to your people and encourage them to be part of “We the People.”
Right now, you are merely a race pimp.
Saint Lewis. Beatified January 12th 2017. His glory and name shall not be besmirched.
I think it is time for mandatory IQ tests for future senators and congressmen.
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