Rep. John Lewis believes Trump supporters are equivalent to the KKK, and President Trump their Grand Wizard.
Lewis said, “When we had this most recent election, it helped create the climate and environment to bring out something that had been a little asleep, and people feel like now they can just get away with doing everything.”
He continued, “What happened in Virginia made me very sad. We faced mobs, we faced the Klan, we faced overt, open racism during the ’60s. During the freedom rides in 1961, black people and white people couldn’t be seated together on a Greyhound bus, leaving Washington, D.C. to travel through the South. We were beaten, attempted to burn us on the bus, we were left bloody and unconscious by angry mobs.”
“When we attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery just for the right to vote, to protest in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion, we were beaten by the state police and left bloody and some unconscious, and some of our people died,” Lewis added. “After the march on Washington in 1963, there was so much hope and optimism, but 18 days later, a church was bombed in Birmingham, where four little girls were killed on a Sunday morning. What we see happening now, it’s not new.”
Antifa and BLM are peaceful? Tell that to Ferguson and our Constitutional legal system (Are these people actually trying to get rid of our Constitution instead of hating the police?). Is that the real reason behind much of the backlash surrounding these riots or what else do we not know?
“The man (President Trump) that some people voted for just made it very comfortable for people to put on those hoods, put on those sheets, and I tell you, if we’re not mindful or watchful, we are going to go back. We’ve come too far, made too much progress to go back. I don’t want to go back. I want to go forward, and we must go forward.”
Really, America was perfect under former President Obama? None of these “deplorable” people existed until embolden or hoodwinked by President Trump?
Police kill more whites than blacks every year – which is in alignment with ethnic population demographics.
But Rep Lewis wants us to believe that race relations under President Trump resemble the race riots of the 1960s?
Source: Breitbart
You have to realize that he is a racist. He wants to ban and condemn “white sheets” but he supports and praises” black masks and hoods”.
Showing your nasty hate fulled racism again are ya. Just another lowlife racist placing blame where it doesnt belong.
Another uneducated idiot!
I guess he forgot who’s wearing hoods today, its the violent wing of the democRat party.
Let’s see, it was the Democrats who started that whole white hood, and white sheet thing. And they still are doing it in one form or another. They use welfare now to make slaves of much of the Black population and destroyed the family unit by throwing money at single women not to have men living in the household. Shame on you. You have done your best to turn Blacks into second class citizens and then promote hatred on top of that. Shame on you. You neglect to tell them that some of the first Representatives in Congress were Black and that they weren’t Democrats. The first battle of the Revolution blacks and whites fought side by side to defend this country and the first casualty of war was a Black man who gave his life for this country. Yes, there was slavery but that was the way of the world and the Constitution paved the way to end it in this country unlike in Africa and the Middle East where there still is slavery today. But economic slavery is still slavery and your party promotes it still. Shame on you.
Sorry. You are confused. No Republican wore a white hood. That was your own political party.
Shut you mouth, you guys got your way. Give them an inch they take a yard. You destroyed the south it’s history. So shut up, msbey we can heal and have unity. This is like beating an old horse.