Marco Rubio tweets a tribute to John Lewis using the photo of a different black congressman [View all]

[RandySF]

Like many of his colleagues, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted a tribute to John Lewis on Saturday and included a photo of himself with the civil rights icon who died Friday. He even made the image his Twitter profile picture.

There was just one problem. The photo was of Rubio and the late congressman Elijah E. Cummings, who died in December.

“It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress with John Lewis a genuine & historic American hero,” Rubio tweeted with the photo of himself and Cummings.

John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80
The response on Twitter was a mix of anger and ridicule, with many users posting photos of various white Republican congressmen and labeling them Rubio. Others chided Rubio for the offensive act of mixing up two people of color, especially given that he had interacted with both of them in person.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/marco-rubio-tweets-a-tribute-to-john-lewis-using-the-photo-of-a-different-black-congressman/2020/07/18/381d9f8a-c92f-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html