Rep. John Lewis and what the people who called him a N***** should know

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Despite all the hate and stupidity that was directed @ Rep. Lewis by the teabaggers
with encouragement of Michelle Bachmann and Fox News, John Lewis shows all of America
what real class and grace is all about. The teabaggers and freepers who called him a
nigger have no idea what a really good man he is and that all Americans are better off
because of his service to his country.

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48 Years Later John Lewis Gets Apology from White Man Who Beat Him

Almost 48 years have passed since a mob of white men beat up two civil rights demonstrators at Rock Hill’s Greyhound
bus station. Called “Freedom Riders,” one white man and one black man protesting segregated transportation tried to both
go into a waiting room that on May 9,1961, was for “whites” only.

When asked Monday night if any of the people who beat him in 1961 in Rock Hill, or attacked the Freedom Ride bus days later in
Alabama, ever apologized before, U.S. Rep John Lewis, D-Ga. said, “Never. Until now.” One of the Rock Hill mob has now apologized.

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“This apology now is the essence of what the (civil rights) movement was all about, the ability of people to change and grow,” Lewis
said Monday.


Freedom Riders John Lewis and ? 1961

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Rep. John Lewis and Elwin Wilson 2009


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“This is one of the best things I have ever done,” Wilson said of apologizing. “I am sorry. I’m just now trying to do what’s right.”

[myrna minx]

1. K&R n/t

[maddezmom]

2. Rec'd

thanks for posting :thumbsup:

[quiet.american]

3. Thank you for posting this. nt

[Cirque du So-What]

4. The teabagger fuckhead who called Rep. Lewis that horrid name

will probably go to his grave without apologizing.

[zbdent]

5. He will be buried with honors, with Sarah Palin

doing the eulogy ...