Maine's Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that the NAACP should apologize to white America, making the comment just hours after he weighed in on the president-elect's Twitter beef with a black civil rights icon.
"I will just say this: John Lewis ought to look at history," LePage said during his weekly appearance on the George Hale and Ric Tyler Show, on Bangor-based radio station WVOM. "It was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, it was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant who fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple thank you would suffice."
LePage's criticism was aimed at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader and Democratic member of Congress from Georgia who called Donald Trump an "illegitimate president" and said he would not attend the inauguration. Trump answered Lewis on Twitter, saying Lewis was all talk and no action.
The feud prompted 42 Democratic members of Congress so far, including Maine's Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, to boycott the inauguration events in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
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John Lewis has the emotional intelligence of a 9 year old girl.
ReplyDeleteHe the biggest uncle tom. Joining the democratic party that stiffled black progress at every turn and continues to place a boot on the troats of black americans.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was Ag production, built on the backs of black slaves, that formed the economic foundation for the US. Not to mention the slaves who either fought, built fortifications, or provided valuable forms of logistical support during the revolution and civil war. If you dont know this, read a book before you begin commemting. Lets cut the crap and get down to the business of today.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget the Irish slaves or the 450 thousand white men who died in the war freeing slaves from the black and white owners.
DeleteWho pay$ the bills ?
ReplyDeleteI still fail to see the race picture.
ReplyDeleteWhen was the last time a white man owned a black man?
History is history, that is how it got its name.
Only vote buying Liberals still keep the Black people down.
For generations they have been taught .Vote for Me and i will take care of you.