Republican Gov.: Civil rights icon should thank GOP for ending slavery

[IGotWorms 3,309]

Wow

 

(CNN)Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, said Tuesday that civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis should "look at history" and say "thank you" to 19th century Republican presidents for fighting for the rights of African-Americans.

 

LePage's comments come after Lewis said on NBC News that Donald Trump was not a "legitimate" president. Trump responded by tweeting that Lewis was "All talk, talk, talk - no action or results."

 

"How about John Lewis last week?" LePage said on WVOM Maine radio's George Hale and Ric Tyler Show. "Criticizing the president. You know, I will just say this. John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves. It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple 'thank you' would suffice."

 

Grant was president from 1869 to 1877, prior to the start of Jim Crow, while his successor Hayes was the president who oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era.

 

Lewis was a civil rights leader who was badly beaten in 1965 in Selma, Alabama, by Alabama state troopers during the march to Montgomery.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/kfile-paul-lepage-john-lewis/index.html

 

Been kinda ignoring this John Lewis thing because he "started it" with a dumb comment about Trump, but this is... over the top.

[patweisers44 697]

Wow

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/kfile-paul-lepage-john-lewis/index.html

 

Been kinda ignoring this John Lewis thing because he "started it" with a dumb comment about Trump, but this is... over the top.

Lewis deserved a pass for a dumb comment for sure. But in this day and age, no body can let anything go. Both sides are thin-skinned and easily butt hurt. The further one side gets, the further the other side feels it needs to go to keep pace. So you basically end up (wrongly) with one side being made up entirely of alleged racists and homophobes and the other side being chock full of limp-wristed, butt humping gayblades with zero coping skills.

 

My mantra for the next four years (or eight, but I have doubts on how successful this presidency can be right now) will be whichever party has the common sense to nominate a candidate close to the center of the aisle will win in a slam dunk.

[Mike Honcho 4,014]

Yeah...that's the same GOP party.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Love it. Going Trump on these idiots is the only way.

[IGotWorms 3,309]

Just so much to unpack here...

 

I mean first the suggestion that a black civil rights icon should thank his white overlords for freeing him... wow. Huge wow. I don't care who you are, that's nuts.

 

But then the focking nitwit was wrong too. Lincoln freed the slaves, sure. But Hayes was an outright oppressor. He ended reconstruction and ushered in Jim Crow for gods sake!

[BLS 313]

I look forward to upcoming race wars.

[mighty_thor 115]

Wow

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/kfile-paul-lepage-john-lewis/index.html

 

Been kinda ignoring this John Lewis thing because he "started it" with a dumb comment about Trump, but this is... over the top.

 

The Northeastern states were the big abolitionist states. The states have pretty much flip flopped in regards to which ones are republican and which ones are democrat during the Civil rights movement.

 

Red vs Blue states - Compare the states that voted republican and democrat in these two elections:

 

1896: http://presidentelect.org/e1896.html#map

2012: http://freedomslighthouse.net/2012-presidential-election-electoral-vote-map/

[edjr 5,552]

Barbaric

[drobeski 3,061]

Fake outrage level ....9.3

[RLLD 3,455]

I am confused, the govy twit at least seems to have been factual in his assertions, that he backs Trump is something else, while relevant.....have to admire his accuracy regarding history.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,618]

I think a lot of white men died on the union side. And a President did get assassinated over it.

[IGotWorms 3,309]

 

The Northeastern states were the big abolitionist states. The states have pretty much flip flopped in regards to which ones are republican and which ones are democrat during the Civil rights movement.

 

Red vs Blue states - Compare the states that voted republican and democrat in these two elections:

 

1896: http://presidentelect.org/e1896.html#map

2012: http://freedomslighthouse.net/2012-presidential-election-electoral-vote-map/

It's a silly assertion that GOP should be thanked for ending slavery.

 

But even if the parties hadn't flipped, this guy is essentially saying "you should shut up and thank us you aren't a slave anymore"

 

I mean, Jesus!

[Hardcore troubadour 12,618]

LePage is a nut. Maxine Watters says even dumber stuff

[Strike 3,956]

I mean first the suggestion that a black civil rights icon should thank his white overlords for freeing him... wow. Huge wow. I don't care who you are, that's nuts.

 

 

 

Lewis was a slave? Wow, he's pretty damn old!!!

[Mike Honcho 4,014]

Fake outrage level ....9.3

Agree 100%, Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, of should shut the F up about how Senator Lewis's should express himself. Good for you Drobe, didn't realize you were so woke.

[NorthernVike 2,080]

Fake outrage level ....9.3

I'd say closer to 9.8

[IGotWorms 3,309]

I am confused, the govy twit at least seems to have been factual in his assertions, that he backs Trump is something else, while relevant.....have to admire his accuracy regarding history.

Well other than the fact that ol' Rutherford ushered in the Jim Crow era.

 

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.

This is exactly the injustice Lewis matched against in Selma.

 

But otherwise, yeah, spot on

[5-Points 2,726]

No need to give thanks. Just stfu.