Posted on 08/17/2024 12:34:06 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Workers placed a bronze statue of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on the grounds of the Dekalb County Courthouse Friday — the same site where a Confederate monument was removed in 2020.
Internationally acclaimed sculptor Basil Watson, who designed the 12-foot-tall statue, watched as the statue was placed ahead of its official unveiling planned for Aug. 24.
“It’s exciting to see it going up and exciting for the city because of what he represents and what it’s replacing,” Watson told The Associated Press.
Lewis, who represented Georgia in Congress for over three decades, first rose to national prominence during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s when he urged others to get into “good trouble.” He also led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the protests and was a confidante of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
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WHAT???
We’re overrun with fools and idiots!
That statue is sure to get thrown into the swamp.
Its a monument to clebrates stupidity
Ah, yes, the asshole who lied that he had been spit upon by one of the peaceful protestors at the Capitol during the Udumbocare vote.
NYONE UP TO GO MIDNIGHT PAINTING? RED WOULD or purple might be a lasting color.
In time these monuments will be seen as unpopular and torn down when the winds of change brand this leader as a racist as they did Abraham Lincoln.
Isn’t that the freak that lied and said that Tea Party members spit and made racial comments as they were cramming obumber care down our throats? A proven lie. I guess this is right up there with making a felonious thug the symbol of struggle for all blacks in America. And hands-up, don’t-shoot!
THANK GOD FOR ABORTION.
I’ll replace the confederate statue with one of the Founding Fathers like Washington or Jefferson. If I can’t do a Founding Father, I’ll put in Lincoln instead.
Kowtowing Ass kissers.
That statue is sure to get thrown into the swamp.
A tribute to a lifetime dem MACHINE politician, on the take for more than 20 years. A black version of Cong. Claude Pepper (”Red” Pepper, an “FDR man”). Sure to have been done to stick it in the eye of the people who really built Georgia (including great blacks, greater than this joker). Oh, and water carrier for King, of course. The Progressives ignore what they cannot yet see as the files are sealed.
Pass a barf bag. Rewrite history as we become S. Africa.
If I were to leave skid marks, they wouldn't be from a muscle car. I prefer 100% organic.
If they’re going to do this they should put this guy up, not another democrat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_F._Long
So Rep (D) Lewis was known for protesting DNC racist policies?
Not when the pendulum swings in the other direction. I reject the thought that there is a rachet that locks in every thing leftist.
Lewis: a true Incle Tom on the Democrat plantation.
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