Y’know in the era of a pending Trump Presidency you really can’t be prepared for all manner of foolishness that he says on Twitter.
In an interview with Meet the Press, Congressman & Civil Rights activist John Lewis (man pictured to your right in his 20s getting beaten by Alabama state troopers during a civil rights march) said he did not believe that President Elect Donald Trump was a legitimate President. For the record, Lewis who has served for over 30 years in Congress under many Presidential administrations, didn’t say Donald Trump wasn’t a legitimate President because he was a Republican. Lewis believes a hostile foreign power interfered in our elections to help Donald Trump get elected. This is an opinion backed up by the US intelligence community, that foreign actors hacked the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and other political entities to undermine and influence the election process in getting Donald Trump elected.
Point being, John Lewis didn’t pull this out of thin air.
President Elect Donald Trump who has zero self restraint fired back on Twitter.
1st Tweet: Donald Trump: “Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to..”
2nd Tweet: “mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk–no action or results. Sad!”
(Notice he fires back on twitter to like anyone BUT Vladimir Putin? I digress though).
1) Someone needs to tell Trump what bad OPTICS politically it is to go after of ALL people, John Lewis on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend.
2) All Talk and No Results? Rep John Lewis? Rephrase, Civil Rights ICON and Congressman John Lewis?
Let me count the ways of John Lewis’ “ACTION & RESULTS”:
A) John Lewis at 23 was the youngest speaker and one of the co-organizers of the 1963 March on Washington
B) At 23, John Lewis was the President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The national organization that was organizing young people to do sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. During his tenure SNCC
-opened Freedom Schools,
-launched Mississippi Freedom Summer, (the infamous voter registration summer where 3 three civil rights workers were killed for registering black voters)
-and organized some of the voter registration efforts that led to the Selma to Montgomery march
C) John Lewis participated in much of the organizing work he led. He participated in Nashville city luncheon counter sit-ins…..
D) At age 19/20, John Lewis participated in the original Freedom Rides, organized bus trips that were integrated, and made stops through the segregated South. The goal was to desegregate public transportation. At a stop in Montgomery, Alabama, John Lewis was PULLED from the bus, and beaten unconscious with a wooden crate.
E) At 25 while participating in the nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights for disenfranchised black southerners, John Lewis was gassed and beaten by a billy club.
F) He’s been arrested more than 40 times as a young Civil Rights activist, getting voting rights for disenfranchised Americans.
John Lewis after his service in the Civil Rights Movement continued to be a community leader leading up to his election as an Atlanta City Councilman. After that, Lewis elected to Congress where he has served honorably ever since.
John Lewis was working to Make America Great, since he was a teenager, President Elect Donald Trump just makes it a campaign slogan.
AND ANOTHER THING:
During his tenure as Congressman, Atlanta has risen to be a powerhouse of a Southern city. It is even called a “Black Mecca” wear black artists, musicians, and businessman have re-located because Atlanta is an amazing place of opportunity.
Atlanta’s rise to national acclaim as an international and national city is not entirely due to him of course, but John Lewis played a role.
Heck do you know how many TV shows are now shot in Atlanta, because Atlanta?! Ironically this tweet is day after the President Elect and Steve Harvey have a meeting about working on an “inner city initiative”. Oh really?
How about y’all call Atlanta for some tips?!
And again, just don’t come for John Lewis.
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