Just Because You Believe You're A Civil Rights Icon..Does Not Mean One Can't Be Judge When Wrong....

If Your Candidate Is Strong - It is Not Necessary To Lie On Another to Win. All That does Is Display Large And Wide The Weakness in Your Candidate.

As It Relates to the Mess About What Congressman John Lewis Said-- He Lied - Point Blank Period On Bernie Sanders.

As a Young Jewish Man in the early 1960's, Sanders was a part - as were many others - in the Civil Rights Struggle. Sanders participated during the March on Washington and Chairman of CORE a Social Change Organization that sought equality in Student Housing in Chicago during that same period.

It was not required that Sanders "Check-In" With John Lewis to verify all of his related Civil Rights Activities in the 1960's.
Nor was it required that all of the Freedom Riders - including James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner "Check-In" with John Lewis before visiting Nashoba County, Mississippi or that Merger Evans "Check In" with John Lewis before arriving home in his driveway, or Emmett Till "Check-In" with John Lewis before visiting a grocery Store in Money, Mississippi.

In Fact, It was not required that ANY OF THE individuals giving time, money or worst their body -- up to in some cases the point of death - "Check-In" with John Lewis to ensure he know they were there.

Martin Luther King did not require this for those aligning with his rightful views on the struggle, so excuse me but what makes John Lewis more special than MLK?

Let me answer my own question - NOTHING.

Furthermore, John Lewis Lied on when he claimed to first met the Clinton's.

He did NOT meet Bill or Hillary Clinton in the early 1960's. Want to know why?

Hillary Clinton was ending high school in the Chicagoland area and was a Goldwater Girl until 1964 - then because a student at Wellesley College - a Exclusive All Girls Private College in Wellesley, Massachusetts that did NOT admit African-American students in the early or mid 1960's.

Heck the college just named recently it's first African-American President - so...

President Bill Clinton was nowhere near a Civil Rights March as a High School Student until 1963 - then attending Georgetown University from 1964 to 1967 and -- next as a intern and then clerk in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright - a KNOWN RACIST at the time.

In Fact, Lewis did not even hear of Bill Clinton until the early 1970's according to his own words:

Lewis contributed a section to a 2001 book called "Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton, from Hope to Harlem" which offers an African American perspective on President Clinton. In the book, Lewis states:

“The first time I heard of Bill Clinton was in the early 70s. I was living in Georgia, working for the Southern Poverty Law organization, when someone told me about this young, emerging leader in Arkansas who served as attorney general, then later became governor.”

And did not meet Bill Clinton until 1988, or two years prior to Bill Clinton's announcement to run for President in 1991.

“I think I paid more attention to him at the 1988 Democratic Convention, when he was asked to introduce the presidential candidate and took up far more time than was allotted to him. After he became involved with the Democratic Leadership Council, I would run into him from time to time. But it was one of his aides, Rodney Slater, who actually introduced us in 1991 and asked me if I would support his presidency.”

And it can be reasonably assumed this is the same time John Lewis met Hillary Clinton also. In the late 1980's not early/mid/or late 1960's
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Thus, during the Civil Rights Era and, whatever work Bill or Hillary Clinton MIGHT HAVE DONE for Civil Rights during the 1960's, they did not "Check-In" with John Lewis before they did it -- and neither did Bernie Sanders.

There is on thing to desire to remain a Civil Rights Icon and another to -- lie as a so-called Civil Rights Icon -- on other individuals who participated in the fight for Civil Rights.

John Lewis LIED on Bernie Sanders and failed to tell the truth on Bill and Hillary Clinton - when he actually met them.

With that, John Lewis just lost a bit of respect from myself and other STUDENTS of the struggle for Civil Rights - who are African-American - across this county.

Don't lie to prop up your chosen candidate especially on the issue of Civil Rights. It's not a Good Look At All.

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