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Former Black Panther Mason Weaver Says Democrats Are The Party Of The Klan And Lewis Is An 'Illegitimate Congressman.
I thought this (former) Black Panthers take on things rather interesting as it runs totally contrary to the current left's opinion.
"One former Black Panther takes issue with legendary civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis calling Trump an illegitimate president, saying Democrats are the party of the Klan and Lewis is an 'illegitimate congressman."
He was abused by Democrats, protested Democrats, suffered his entire early life from Democrat party policies, and became a Democrat. This is sort of like Soros helping fascists stuff ovens with other Jews. It's sorta hard to understand to those of us with a moral compass.
John Lewis is no fool.
The Democrat party of yesterday is the Republican party of today. Race baiters, race haters, and ready to rip health insurance from millions of their fellow Americans.
Republicans have no moral compass so . . why start now?
Almost 750,000 people live there, according to the most recent estimates from the Census Bureau. The population is about 58 percent African-American, about one-third white and about 5 percent Asian.
The median household income is about $48,000 -- slightly higher than Georgia's median, but below the national median of $56,000. (The national median figure over the past five years has been about $54,000.)
About 1 in 6 families in the district lived in poverty in the previous year. The same dataset estimated the national rate to be about 1 family in 9.
The unemployment rate in the district was about 8.2 percent when the Census Bureau released its estimates last year for the American Community Survey’s 2015 one-year measurement. The same data set estimated the national unemployment rate at 6.3 percent, and the Georgia state rate at 7.1 percent. The national unemployment rate as of December, published by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, was 4.7 percent.
Nearly nine out of 10 residents of the Fifth District were high school graduates or had education beyond high school, and about four out of 10 residents had at least a bachelor's degree, according to Census estimates.
The largest single chunk of employed residents in Lewis' district, about half of the civilian work force, worked in a field grouped by the Census as "management, business, science, and arts occupations." The district includes Atlanta's downtown and main business district, and includes the headquarters of the Coca-Cola Company in Midtown and Delta Air Lines near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It also covers the campuses of Georgia Tech and Emory University as well as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and many of the city's major cultural and arts institutions.
The largest single sector employing people in the Fifth District is construction (12 percent), followed by "management and remediation services" (11.9 percent) and "management of companies and enterprises" (11.8).
In his Tweets about Lewis, Trump also hit on a continuing issue for Fifth District residents, Atlanta's crime problems, pegging the Fifth District as "crime-infested." Atlanta landed at No. 14 in the nation for its rate of violent crime when the Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics last year that applied to 2015. "
"But the rise in homicides in Atlanta mirrors a national trend in major cities across the country, and a New York Times analysis last year showed major jumps in murder rates in 25 of America's 100 biggest cities. Atlanta was not one of the 25.
The most recent violent crime rate for Atlanta and more than two dozen of its largest surrounding counties, according to the FBI, was 401 per 100,000 residents. That puts Atlanta at a rate similar to that of Clarksville, Tenn, which came in at 405. That's higher than the rate of the Dallas-Fort Worth area (338) but lower than Kansas City (536), Columbia, S.C. (651) and Columbus, Ga. (469)."
The 5th district could do better, but it could alot worse. That district has one of the wealthiest Black areas in the nation.
Some of that district is in bad shape, particularly around the Adamsville/Fulton Industrial corridor. And then you have Cascade Heights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Heights
So you don't mind when politicians, especially those who claim to be civil rights icons, turn out to be nothing more than common liars? Liars that lie as easily as breathing air. It de-legitimizes his attack on Trump.
It's a big deal to a lot of people. It's why the Democrats have been decimated across the USA.
Trump lies constantly.
Or do you actually believe the crap that spews out of that ugly troll's pie hole?
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John Lewis lied on National TV. He said this would be the first time ever, in his congressional career, that he’d miss a Presidential inauguration.
But he did exactly the same thing in 2001 against GW Bush. Refused to attend inauguration and called him illegitimate.
John Lewis spent [inauguration] day in his Atlanta district. He thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush's swearing-in because he doesn't believe Bush is the true elected president.
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Former Black Panther Mason Weaver Says Democrats Are The Party Of The Klan And Lewis Is An 'Illegitimate Congressman.
John Lewis Also Said that GW Bush was Illegitimate in 2001 - Refused to Attend that Inaguration too.
