Maine Governor Offers John Lewis an Erroneous History Lesson

[s_bushido]

Your rant reminds me oh so much of this...... because its oh so true.

This isn't any better than modern Republicans taking credit for Lincoln. No one today benefited from slavery, nor was anyone today born into anything even remotely that oppressive.

[LaserSharkDFB]

"As if it means anything either way, because neither of the modern parties are what they were ten years ago, much less 30-40, and definitely not 100+."

Hence, why people need to stop shitting about segregation or this is some hypocritical nonsense.

...are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? I honestly can't tell. The first part in quotes agrees with me, and the second sentence is just garbage. To put it simply: Lincoln was a Republican, but that no longer has any bearing on our modern society. Segregation happened, and that does still have a bearing on our modern society; in fact it's still happening in a lot of little not-quite-officially-sanctioned ways.

[drakensoul]

Off topic, but..

Anyone surprised at Trump's win shouldn't have been.

LePage has been drunkenly breathing down our necks the entire time. Two terms! How!!

And that is how I know that Trump will be a two term president as well. Because there's some crazy segment of the population that votes these bewildering monstrosities into power just to say "HAH!!!!! YOU LOSE!"

[alexw]

This isn't any better than modern Republicans taking credit for Lincoln. No one today benefited from slavery, nor was anyone today born into anything even remotely that oppressive.

Your argument is just plain wrong. Laughably so.

Slavery and its after-effects (Jim Crow, redlining, etc) gave whites a huge advantage over African Americans. All the best jobs, the best schools, access to business loans on the best rates, etc, etc, etc, were for a long long time reserved for whites only. The effects of that have then been perpetuated over time via family lines (we call this the poverty trap), such that African Americans incomes and wealth average substantially less than that of whites.

So modern day advantaged whites have benefited hugely from the prior decades and centuries of slavery.

[Dextroden]

...are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? I honestly can't tell. The first part in quotes agrees with me, and the second sentence is just garbage. To put it simply: Lincoln was a Republican, but that no longer has any bearing on our modern society. Segregation happened, and that does still have a bearing on our modern society; in fact it's still happening in a lot of little not-quite-officially-sanctioned ways.

You'd be able to link me these not quite officially sanctioned segregation examples, wouldn't you?

[LaserSharkDFB]

You'd be able to link me these not quite officially sanctioned segregation examples, wouldn't you?

http://www.diversityinc.com/news/wha...ok-like-today/
http://www.epi.org/publication/modern-segregation/
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...n-divided-race
https://www.theatlantic.com/educatio...chools/382846/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/us/mil...regation-poll/

You're welcome. Oh, wait, there's a CNN article there, don't want to hear 'FAKE NEWS', so here's a replacement.

http://america.aljazeera.com/article...ansuburbs.html

[Steve French]

Hey you guys love racial extremists lets see what an old black panther has to say about this hateful old man.



"In the early 70's and late 60's, we were demonstrating and protesting for the right to compete as adult citizens of America, we were not demonstrating to be taken care of. Congressman Lewis - he walked across the Pettus bridge and they beat him and ran over him, but those were Democrats. It was Democrat George Wallace who stood in the schoolhouse door, it was Democrat Bull Connor that oppressed black folks...he [Lewis] was fighting Democrats, but after they beat his behind on that bridge and ran over him and stomped him in the ground, he got up and turned and joined them!"

[LaserSharkDFB]

Hey you guys love racial extremists lets see what an old black panther has to say about this hateful old man.



"In the early 70's and late 60's, we were demonstrating and protesting for the right to compete as adult citizens of America, we were not demonstrating to be taken care of. Congressman Lewis - he walked across the Pettus bridge and they beat him and ran over him, but those were Democrats. It was Democrat George Wallace who stood in the schoolhouse door, it was Democrat Bull Connor that oppressed black folks...he [Lewis] was fighting Democrats, but after they beat his behind on that bridge and ran over him and stomped him in the ground, he got up and turned and joined them!"

Again, Southern Strategy. Now, can we maybe stop making this thread about race?

[Tinykong]

Yep, it's definitely going to take an entire generation to remake all the progress of the last 50 years that is about to be undone in 4.

[Wyrt]

Hey you guys love racial extremists lets see what an old black panther has to say about this hateful old man.



"In the early 70's and late 60's, we were demonstrating and protesting for the right to compete as adult citizens of America, we were not demonstrating to be taken care of. Congressman Lewis - he walked across the Pettus bridge and they beat him and ran over him, but those were Democrats. It was Democrat George Wallace who stood in the schoolhouse door, it was Democrat Bull Connor that oppressed black folks...he [Lewis] was fighting Democrats, but after they beat his behind on that bridge and ran over him and stomped him in the ground, he got up and turned and joined them!"

Oh look, another person that doesn't understand history.

[alturic]

"Put him in his place." Uh-huh. Just gonna let that sit there when referring to an African-American civil rights leader.

"Put him in his place" meaning stand up for yourself when someone spouts bullshit your way. As for "African-American civil rights leader"... HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

[Lenonis]

Southern Strategy denialists are just totally adorable with their completely resistant to the political realities of the 1900s. Not like any of this is known fact, has established evidence, or can be clearly seen in electoral maps or anything.

[Macaquerie]

LePage is an idiot. You can crack open any high school history textbook and it'll bring up the election of 1876, which is a bit of an electoral oddity, and the "corrupt bargain" that put Hayes into office on the condition that he withdraw federal troops from the South, thus enabling the local governments to impose Jim Crow free from federal interference. So far from fighting against segregation, the Republican president enabled it because that was the price for taking office. Oh, and he also lost the popular vote.

[Belize]

Ah yeah the old "Lincoln was a republican" argument. People really need to brush up on their history of the political parties.

History is biased and has fake news!

[Orbitus]

I understand your ignorance of this idiot Jon Lewis. In the states he is widely considered an embarrassment.

Not really. Not even to Republican lawmakers. To racists and KKK members sure, but anyone else? Nope. He is a civil rights icon.

[Spiffums]

Lewis wants to live in the past and still be "special". Piss on him he is just holding back black people with his race baiting. A black man has been President for the last 8 years and Lewis has been in Congress for god knows how long. You can't move forward if you're living in the past.

[Beet]

LePage is a fucking idiot. Everyone knows this including republicans. Don't take anything he says seriously.

John Lewis is an embarrassment on par with crack smoker Marion Barry.

Why is that? Curious through comments like this and your recent join date.

[Orbitus]

LePage is a fucking idiot. Everyone knows this including republicans. Don't take anything he says seriously.



Why is that? Curious through comments like this and your recent join date.

I would just ignore him. He is probably an alt account of Zombergy since he is currently banned I believe.

[Powerogue]

" The governor has said a racist "is the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person""

I mean I can think of a handful of other worse things. Rapist, murderer, Hitler, ultra-mecha-Hitler....

[LaserSharkDFB]

Thanks for responding.

Happy to help!