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Congressman John Lewis (D-AL) put his life on the line in marches, and was badly beaten by Democrat-directed police again and again. He was one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961, and was attacked and beaten several times, invariable in Democrat-controlled areas, when he and his friends peacefully entered stores and restaurants supposedly "for whites only". Yet he continued his nonviolent demonstrations in favor of ending segregation.
On March 7, 1965 at the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, AL, armed police from the city, sent by Democrat mayor Joe Smitherman, and armed Alabama state troopers sent by Democrat governor George Wallace attacked unarmed, peaceful marchers including Lewis, and brutally beat many of them. One man was killed, and Lewis suffered a fractured skull.
Lewis spent much of his youth organizing and participating in peaceful marches, opposing the Democrat leaders who kept sending police to attack and assault the marchers repeatedly.
Later in his life, Lewis believed the story that Democrats only wanted to help black people, joined the party, and supported and voted repeatedly for big-government far and wide, including welfare programs that rewarded mothers for having children out of wedlock and contributed to the breakup of many poor families black and white, and the poverty resulting directly from it.
Whether Lewis's heroic behavior during the 1960s and beyond, made up for the damage his votes and support did in later periods up to the present, remains debatable.
Yeah, if only he only he had switched to the party of tolerance and inclusion, the GOP, he could have had a confederate flag signed by Trump himself to drape his casket.
Lewis was heroic. I recall him as I have read about the Nashville college kids, like he, Diane Nash, Jim Lawson etc, and their raw courage and commitment, along with MLK, to non violence changed the world.
If the kids at lunch counters fight back, or those on Freedom Ride buses fight back, they simply become thugs, like antifa, and NOTHING is accomplished.
The kids I just described though, unlike antifa thugs, had all of the following: character, courage, conviction, fortitude, and we all owe them our gratitude.
RIP, John Lewis.
from a conservative who is grateful you changed the world of your youth utilizing Gandhi principles. We truly did overcome.
Does Lewis's brave behavior in his youth, helping to defeat Democrat segregation, beatings etc., make up for his voting for big-govt programs from those same Democrats that did so much harm to all races in his later life?
Does Lewis's brave behavior in his youth, helping to defeat Democrat segregation, beatings etc., make up for his voting for big-govt programs from those same Democrats that did so much harm to all races in his later life?
That is what happens. People think of them as this person in the past and they don't see what they are as a person now. I count what a person is now as who they really are.
These threads trying to link today's Democrats to being racists are laughable. They are the desperate acts of people that have nothing positive they could offer.
It is quite clear to anyone that the roles of the parties with regards to race have been totally flipped. It is today's Republican Party which is racist and bigoted. The only thing that stayed the same is that many white southerners are bigots regardless of what party they affiliate with. It is they who make a party racist.
These threads trying to link today's Democrats to being racists are laughable. They are the desperate acts of people that have nothing positive they could offer.
It is quite clear to anyone that the roles of the parties with regards to race have been totally flipped. It is today's Republican Party which is racist and bigoted. The only thing that stayed the same is that many white southerners are bigots regardless of what party they affiliate with. It is they who make a party racist.
Actually the history of it is quite fascinating. But sadly too many people ignore the history of the parties, and how the parties switched around during the equal rights movement.
These threads trying to link today's Democrats to being racists are laughable. They are the desperate acts of people that have nothing positive they could offer.
It is quite clear to anyone that the roles of the parties with regards to race have been totally flipped. It is today's Republican Party which is racist and bigoted. The only thing that stayed the same is that many white southerners are bigots regardless of what party they affiliate with. It is they who make a party racist.
Good and succinct point. I'm going to have to borrow this whenever I see something about "the Democrats being the party of the KKK and Jim Crow" that keeps being regurgitated ad nauseum.
These threads trying to link today's Democrats to being racists are laughable. They are the desperate acts of people that have nothing positive they could offer.
It is quite clear to anyone that the roles of the parties with regards to race have been totally flipped. It is today's Republican Party which is racist and bigoted. The only thing that stayed the same is that many white southerners are bigots regardless of what party they affiliate with. It is they who make a party racist.
Sounds like you are the biggest bigot in this thread.
Read up on the Boston busing riots.
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