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Posted on 12/07/2017 2:00:49 PM PST by Hojczyk
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) announced Thursday he won’t attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Saturday because President Trump will be there.
“President Trump’s attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this civil rights museum," Lewis said in a joint statement with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).
Lewis and Thompson cited Trump’s past comments about women, immigrants and NFL players who have protested during the national anthem before games, saying his remarks "disrespect the efforts" of civil rights leaders.
Lewis had previously said he was reconsidering whether to attend after the White House announced Tuesday that Trump would be at the event in Jackson, Miss.
“We think it’s unfortunate that these members of Congress wouldn’t join the President in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
"The President hopes others will join him in recognizing that the movement was about removing barriers and unifying Americans of all backgrounds.”
Lewis has been a frequent critic of Trump and drew the president’s ire in January, before Trump officially took office, after saying he didn't consider him to be a “legitimate president."
Trump said on Twitter the congressman should “spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested).”
Lewis, on Wednesday, was one of 58 House Democrats who voted in favor of beginning impeachment proceedings against Trump. The measure overwhelmingly failed in the GOP-lead House.
Lewis was a key civil rights leader in the 1960s as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
The NAACP, on Tuesday, announced opposition to Trump attending the museum opening, saying he has created a “racially hostile climate.”
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"Mommy! Mommy! President Trump is at the same event as I am. Eeeww!"
Thumb-suckers.
John Lewis is a racist.
He is a man of the past.
Just another DemonRat Straw Boss, tasked with keeping Negroes down on the DemonRat Plantation. And the ignorant, lazy fuckers do make his job easy.
Lewis is a STUPID hateful man who has done NOTHING to genuinely help blacks in this country improve their lives.
He’s a despicable race-baiter, and he is perfectly fine with blacks being a permanent welfare-addicted underclass in the U.S.
Buh bye
Dont think he’ll be missed
Another FAKE Civil Rights loser like Rosa Parks and MLK, Democrat phonies.
MLK the “peaceful” protester used to beat his women.
Fake Rosa Parks fought FOR Jim Crow laws.
And the average IQ went up by 15.
Bloody Jesse at the front of the list.
Despite Martin's problems...his goal was pure.
Perception based on character...not skin color.
While MLK had many weaknesses (don't we all), he was right in that conclusion.
See a man's character...not his skin color.
Let's return to that!
Hurtful policies?
Name one!
Efforts(agitation is a better word)by “civil rights” fakers *need* to be disrespected.
Spray radius is at least 10 feet.
Exactly. We’re on to ‘em...
“:^)
In ‘honor’ of John Lewis and the people Blacks in Africa sold to Dutch traders to transport to America
MAYBE
Rush L will rebirth the story of J Lewis and the MILLIONS, no make that TRILLIONS of Africans who were thrown overboard - with so many being tossed overboard that the SHARKS changed their sea lanes and still roam the same areas looking for some ‘lunch’.
Mr L, pointed out that in J Lewis’ orginal figure that out of a cash crop the shippers had to throw 500 a day or so overboard for 20 years (or something like that)
‘Roads Skolar’(sic) Lewis redid the math and the next day RL was back and redid HIS numbers and it still meant about 300 a day just tossed overboard.
PRESIDENT TRUMP is in a real Quagmire here, if he said he wasn’t going he is a Racist SOB and now that he says he is going he is a Racist SOB trying to steal the day.
HOWEVER — WE did the same thing to Clinton & BO, were ready to jump on them for not attending Veterans Events and when they did WE said they had no business being there.
Maybe we should just go back to the JC days and just sit in the Rose Garden and dream of seeing ‘Harvey’ while in his rowboat and ‘lusting (in his heart) after females’.
So did the IQ!
Respect is earned, and you have been found wanting.
Just being white is an affront to these aholes!
Good, I didn’t want him to go anyway.
Is that all it takes to keep Libs away? Trump needs to attend everything he possibly can then.
so???
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