Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Slams Bernie Sanders
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Source: Mother Jones
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the progressive icon who led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement, on Thursday dismissed Sen. Bernie Sanders' participation in that movement.
When a reporter asked Lewis to comment on Sanders' involvement in the movement—Sanders as a college student at the University of Chicago was active in civil rights work—the congressman brusquely interrupted him. "Well, to be very frank, I'm going to cut you off, but I never saw him, I never met him," Lewis said. "I'm a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved in the sit-ins, the freedom rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery, and directed their voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton."
The preeminent civil rights hero's pooh-poohing of Sanders came at a press conference where the Congressional Black Caucus PAC announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. The PAC is somewhat separate from the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), which is a group of 46 African American members of the House. (All its members are Democratic but one.) But the PAC is chaired by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), a CBC member, and its 20-person board is made up of seven CBC members and several lobbyists, lawyers, and consultants. Some media accounts are depicting this endorsement as the action of the CBC. But Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and a CBC member, sent out an accusatory tweet shortly before the endorsement, complaining, "Cong'l Black Caucus (CBC) has NOT endorsed in presidential. Separate CBCPAC endorsed withOUT input from CBC membership, including me." Ellison is one of two House members who have officially backed Sanders.
The CBC PAC endorsement of Clinton was hosted at the Capitol Hill headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, which raises questions about the DNC's supposed impartiality in the Clinton-Sanders race. An official at the Democratic National Committee says that the party had nothing to do with the CBC PAC's event, which was held at DNC headquarters on Capitol Hill. "Members of Congress who are dues paying members of the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] can reserve the space," he told Mother Jones in an email.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights
Ouch.
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Hillary supported anti-Civil Rights Act Republicans like Nixon and Barry Goldwater back then.
So what's up with that?
guess someone didn’t stop the “copy and paste” function as quickly as they wanted.
The Black Caucus falling into line? Similar rift to the white establishment. Is it because they have the same "responsibilities" as Hillary does? 
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what are you slamming?
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Go ahead ~ Keep alienating Bernie supporters. 
at the mall one time and we were even looking for each other! Holy shit! This means something!
The time lines don't make sense as Clinton and Sanders were on opposite sides at the time. Why would Lewis do this? It breaks my heart that a hero would say such a thing and demean another man's accomplishments. 
In the '60s at the University of Chicago, where he transferred after a year at Brooklyn College, he studied psychology and took on leadership roles in the radical political scene. "When I went to the University of Chicago, I began to understand the futility of liberalism," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1991. According to Chicago magazine, he helped lead a sit-in against racially segregated campus housing, and worked as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, he took his first trip to the nation's capital to march in Martin Luther King Jr.'s seismic "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."
http://mic.com/articles/118212/the-story-of-how-bernie-sanders-became-famous-will-make-you-love-him-even-more#.tmwgMRSae
BTW I don't think Hillary voted for Goldwater in 1964 because she would have been too young to vote.
To ignore Bernie's documented work in civil rights and ignore what the Clintons have both done in the area... Congressman Lewis sure didn't see the Clintons there.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights/index.html
Washington (CNN)Democratic Rep. John Lewis on Thursday questioned the extent of Bernie Sanders' participation in the civil rights movement
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights
on Thursday dismissed Sen. Bernie Sanders' participation in that movement.
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"...I never saw him, I never met him...I was involved in the sit-ins, the freedom rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery, and directed their voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton."
Therefore Bernie is lying about being there to get in good with black voters? Sounds kind of familiar....
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