Dem Rep. John Lewis Says He’s “terrified” Racist Tea Party Will Tear Obama Down…

[AvgGuyIA]

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[SmedlyButler]

Felt the same way about conservative racists back in the 1960s, long before Maher was around. You guys ain't changed a bit, same old hatred and denial of being racist.

This worthless soul used to run for office when I was growing up, he claimed he wasn't a racist right up till they convicted him of bombing a Black church in Birmingham.

Oh?

Which "conservatives" were these, shit fer brains?

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

 

[AvgGuyIA]

John Lewis is a great American Patriot, the Tea Party is a bunch of frauds wrapping themselves in the flag

As usual, he is 100% correct about what the Republicans have done

So without ( its too late now, no going back) looking at the Congressional Record, without doing a minute's worth of research, you assume Rep Lewis is a "great American Patriot". And why is this? For one simple yet glaring reason...Politics of identity.

What is a Patriot?

Someone willing to give his life to fight for freedom and Liberty. That is what John Lewis did. On Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama he led a march two by two in protest of Civil Rights and the right to vote. Without raising a hand or offering resistance, he marched forward as police beat him with clubs and fractured his skull

That is as patriotic as any of our founding fathers

Look at those democrats beating up those republicans with clubs!

 

[SmedlyButler]

Let us see, what exactly does he have to be proud about when someone else gets elected? Oh right he is proud of his racism.

Let us see, the democrats have dominated the government going on 8 years now with arguably a super majority for one year and we see the results.

Notice he doesn't campaign on the accomplishment of Obama but on fear generated over old ladies with tea bags in their hats. Quite amusing, thanks for sharing the morning is a good time for a laugh.

What does John Lewis have to be proud of in the election of the first black president?

John Lewis fought for civil rights and was willing to give up his life for freedom and liberty. The election of a black man as President showed that his struggles for Civil Rights was not in vain

John Lewis is a great American

Sometimes we forget how dangerous being in the front lines of the civil rights movement was in the early sixties. You're so right, John Lewis was truly an American hero. He was at a young age one of the "big six" leaders of the civil rights movement and was one of the first "Freedom Riders".

The attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows with pipes and axes and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window. As smoke and flames filled the bus, the mob barricaded the door. "Burn them alive," somebody cried out. "Fry the goddamn *******." An exploding fuel tank and warning shots from arriving state troopers forced the rabble back and allowed the riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled.
Smithsonian.com

John Lewis has a right to be proud, and his actions, along with 10's of thousands of others, sowed the seeds of a society open enough to elect a black man president. All Americans should be proud to have a man like him in the ranks of great American patriots.

Yes. I agree. It's a shame he became a corrupt race hustler. Tarnishes a great legacy.

It wouldn't be "natural" if we agreed on everything.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

..and the election of half-black Obama ib expectation of making things better was in vain. The racial divide grows wider under the influencinof Obama and Holder....two peas in a pod.

You are correct...the racial divide has grown wider under Obama

An entire political party refused to do business with him. Their stated reason was they wanted him to fail. Was it because he was black or because he is a Democrat?

I suspect a little of both

But Reid didn't have anything to do with nothing getting done? Lol, your an idiot.

There has been no Republican legislation that has had the 60 votes needed to get to the floor. If Republicans were willing to give up their filibuster, they could have had all their bills voted on

So it's the minorities fault? So you guys are really stupid. Blame the minority for not uniting.

so they have not fault in anything?

Lewis is "terrified"? That is the dumbest fucking thing I have heard. He is not terrified by ISIL, but is terrified by tea party members?

The Dems had a super majority back in 2008 and the Dems didn't frighten me. Is this guy a real nut job? ELF nor ALF frightened me but a bunch of tea party members terrify him?

The guy is just staging for votes and money, more emotional rhetoric from an intolerant left.

Yep, All American CITIZENS who disagrees with them are now the ENEMY
I wonder how that make the people feel who voted for Obama and now regret it? His disapprovals are in the 60% and those aren't all Republicans
we tried to warn them

Independent disapproval of Obozo is 72%.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Felt the same way about conservative racists back in the 1960s, long before Maher was around. You guys ain't changed a bit, same old hatred and denial of being racist.

This worthless soul used to run for office when I was growing up, he claimed he wasn't a racist right up till they convicted him of bombing a Black church in Birmingham.

Oh?

Which "conservatives" were these, shit fer brains?

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

More liberal horseshit. Dixiecrats never left the Democrat party. Never.

 

[Antares]

John Lewis is a great American Patriot, the Tea Party is a bunch of frauds wrapping themselves in the flag

As usual, he is 100% correct about what the Republicans have done

Each day you reach another plateau of ignorance.

 

[Discombobulated]

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

You were where? Watching events unfold on TV in your living room?

 

[Discombobulated]

Felt the same way about conservative racists back in the 1960s, long before Maher was around. You guys ain't changed a bit, same old hatred and denial of being racist.

This worthless soul used to run for office when I was growing up, he claimed he wasn't a racist right up till they convicted him of bombing a Black church in Birmingham.

Oh?

Which "conservatives" were these, shit fer brains?

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

More liberal horseshit. Dixiecrats never left the Democrat party. Never.

They all became Republicans. Worse yet they are all Tea Party Republicans now.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Most of the conservative southern racists of that era, KKK and their ilk, wrapped themselves in the banner of the Democratic party and hated the liberal "party of Lincoln" - the Republicans. This of course started changing when the 1948 Democratic platform contained civil rights elements that the die-hard Jim Crow supporters couldn't live with. Hubert Humphrey made a speech urging the Democrats to "get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights..." "States Rights" in that era even more so than today was well understood code for segregation and federal enforcement of civil rights statutes. The forty or so delegates who walked out formed the "States Rights Party" (Dixiecrats) and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Bull Connor was one of the most visible conservative racists who ran under the Democratic banner. John Kennedy said of Connor, "The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln."

Bull Connor was a socialist, you drooling fucking moron.

Was he a "conservative" socialist, shit fer brains?

Inevitably as the national Democratic Party became more liberal and more vocal and activist in supporting civil rights these southern conservatives clinging to the last vestiges of Jim Crow found themselves homeless. Republicans Goldwater and Nixon realized by watching the vote getting potential of George Wallace's "soft racism" that the Republican Party could attract the votes of even quiet socially conservative northerners as well as fearful southerners. The coalition quickly formed, northerners opposed to "busing" and "affirmative action" type solutions and recalcitrant southern racists mixed with the Christian Right and became what amounted to Reagan's moral majority.

You people who hate Democrats for their liberal, multicultural, anti-Christian ways trying to tar them with the brush of Conservative racism must realize that breed fled the Democratic Party and found a new, welcoming home in the Republican Party. Failure to recognize this is denying history. Democrats don't deny these dinosaurs were once among them, Republicans shouldn't, in futility, deny that they now inhabit the Republican "big tent".

The thing that marked the Segregationists was that they represented the radical left of the party.Orval Faubus returned from WWI and joined the Communist Party, which his father was a leader in. He left the CPUSA and joined Roosevelt as a champion of the New Deal and was embraced by the party.

I realize that democrats are utterly without honor or integrity - but the attempt by the left to recast the segregationists are "conservative" is a level of outrageous lies that must be answered.

Racism and collectivism are natural partners, both deny the individual in favor of the group - where it is socialist democrats like Bull Connor demanding that people are no more than their skin color, or Barack Obama saying people are no more than the results of repression by EVIL WHITEY - it's all the same - the collectivist denial of the individual.

 

[Antares]

Let us see, what exactly does he have to be proud about when someone else gets elected? Oh right he is proud of his racism.

Let us see, the democrats have dominated the government going on 8 years now with arguably a super majority for one year and we see the results.

Notice he doesn't campaign on the accomplishment of Obama but on fear generated over old ladies with tea bags in their hats. Quite amusing, thanks for sharing the morning is a good time for a laugh.

What does John Lewis have to be proud of in the election of the first black president?

John Lewis fought for civil rights and was willing to give up his life for freedom and liberty. The election of a black man as President showed that his struggles for Civil Rights was not in vain

John Lewis is a great American

Once again Jake you add to the humor, thanks. I reviewed his web site and see nothing of note and surprisingly little about black issues. Was one post on LGBT "rights."

But let's see what he wrote about Holder stepping down because finally his corruption and incompetence has caught up with him. There really is only one issue that seems important to Lewis, race. Funny how when race is the primary issue to a white person they are racists, but when it is to a black person it is honorable.

Rep. John Lewis on Resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder The Website of Congressman John Lewis Serving the 5th Congressional District of Georgia

Eyewitness

In 1965, at the height of the modern civil rights movement, activists organized a march for voting rights, from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital. On March 7, some 600 people assembled at a downtown church, knelt briefly in prayer, and began walking silently, two-by-two through the city streets.
With Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) leading the demonstration, and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), at his side, the marchers were stopped as they were leaving Selma, at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, by some 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriff ’s deputies, and possemen, who ordered the demonstrators to disperse.
One minute and five seconds after a two-minute warning was announced, the troops advanced, wielding clubs, bullwhips, and tear gas. John Lewis, who suffered a skull fracture, was one of fifty-eight people treated for injuries at the local hospital. The day is remembered in history as “Bloody Sunday.”

And in 2010, the damn KKK tee pottie called him the N word on the capital steps.

So what, an old black guy who at one time in his life stood for something other cliches and platitudes.

Today he's just another has been trying retain some relevance.
His day is past.

 

[Uncensored2008]

They all became Republicans. Worse yet they are all Tea Party Republicans now.

So all you have to do is lie, and history changes?

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Nope, based upon your posts.

I'm still waiting on that list of name of "conservative" Dixiecrats?

Guess you were just lying, like usual, huh fuckwad?

With passage of Civil Rights Act, Strom Thurmond, et al, led the migration of conservative "Dixiecrats" to the Republican Party, that waited with open arms for them and still panders to conservative racists today. Difficult to answer questions when you try to obfuscate the truth.

This is just not true why do you folks keep telling this lie???? I am sure you have been told many times that the Dixiecrats did not go to the Republicans they went right back to their home, the democrat party. There would be no reason for a racist to leave the democrat party for the party of Lincoln. This BS of yours makes absolutely no sense but you folks keep saying it, something is seriously wrong with the left.

They're ignorant lazy bullies. We have to keep repeating to them they are the party of the KKK.

 

[Ibentoken]

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

You were where? Watching events unfold on TV in your living room?

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

You were where? Watching events unfold on TV in your living room?

You failed.

 

[Discombobulated]

They all became Republicans. Worse yet they are all Tea Party Republicans now.

So all you have to do is lie, and history changes?

I wonder why the overwhelming majority of black folks are Democrats now instead of following the long held tradition of black Republicanism? Were they smart before and then they became stupid? Would that about sum up your theory.

 

[Ibentoken]

They all became Republicans. Worse yet they are all Tea Party Republicans now.

So all you have to do is lie, and history changes?

I wonder why the overwhelming majority of black folks are Democrats now instead of following the long held tradition of black Republicanism? Were they smart before and then they became stupid? Would that about sum up your theory.

It started with LBJ and the Great Society. Free stuff. Do you recall what LBJ said about niqqers voting Democrat?
LBJ I ll have those n voting Democratic for the next 200 years Western Free Press

 

[Freewill]

The problem with democrats and liberals in general is that they lie. Either they don't know history or they lie about history. The democrat party was formed on racism, the Republican party was formed for the sole reason to stop the democrat racism and they DID. Except where the democrats invoke Jim Crow, pole taxes, voting exams and other institutionalized racism. That all ended when the south turned Republican. Out went the racists and in came the party of Lincoln.

 

[Ibentoken]

Free at Last PAC

 

[rightwinger]

What does John Lewis have to be proud of in the election of the first black president?

John Lewis fought for civil rights and was willing to give up his life for freedom and liberty. The election of a black man as President showed that his struggles for Civil Rights was not in vain

John Lewis is a great American

Lewis is a traitor to our nation.

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

What does John Lewis have to be proud of in the election of the first black president?

John Lewis fought for civil rights and was willing to give up his life for freedom and liberty. The election of a black man as President showed that his struggles for Civil Rights was not in vain

John Lewis is a great American

Lewis is a traitor to our nation.

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

Lewis is a traitor to our nation.

Lewis is a great American patriot who fought for liberty and freedom

But since that liberty and freedom was for black Americans, Republicans consider him a villian

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Can you imagine that only 10 % of blacks vote republican today?

 

[AtticusF]

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

If Martin Luther King were alive they'd be saying the same things about him.

John Lewis is the closest link we have to MLK today

MLK's father was a republican. Was he a racist?

Most black people were republican back then. There have been some changes since the republicans became the racist party.

Give an example.

Perhaps if you read some history ...

I was there. Give me an example, you piece if shit liar.

"Conservative" and "racist" are pretty much synonymous nowadays. Which party is considered the conservative party? -- Republican, well Libertarians like Ron Paul are quite racist/bigoted too.

Plus, which party do you identify with? How about the others critical of John Lewis?