John Lewis has endorsed Hillary Clinton

[JustAnotherGen]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251654332


My comments on Mr. Lewis Here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118726618

One more time though -

John Lewis didn't just 'march' or write books and lecture:




And he -


And he also -


Now he says stuff like this -


And wow - he wants us to get on up and get in trouble!


And because of this -


And yeah - this -



As I wrote on September 14th -
I've got a feeling about who Lewis will be endorsing . . .

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. As will the rest of the CBC.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Ahhh Tarheel you have yet to learn

See - the entire CBC is all third way plutocratic oligarch corporate overlords so it's to be expected!

[Tarheel_Dem]

15. They've all been bought off by the Clinton/DNC/DLC/CBC/BLM/Third Way Bilderberger cabal.

Oh, and I feel like I should toss in Skull & Bones just to make sure all bases are covered.

[emulatorloo]

17. You forgot the evil George Soros!

[JustAnotherGen]

23. Don't forget

The Boule, The Links, Jack and Jill, Bachelors and Benedict. . .

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. !!!

I'm sure there's a few we've overlooked.

[redstateblues]

55. You forgot the corporatists!!

[iandhr]

21. I to have a taste for snark.

Not everyone does though

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. My congressman (Danny Davis of Illinois) already has.

I'd guess that your assessment is correct.

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. I'm almost certain that Alma Adams will as well. I can't find anything on her official site. nt

[Scootaloo]

4. He endorsed her in 2007 as well.

And then swapped to candidate obama after voters in his district went overwhelmingly for Obama over Clinton:

Mr. Lewis, a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention, first disclosed his intention to support Mr. Obama in an interview with The New York Times on Feb. 14. He said then that he could “never, ever do anything to reverse the action” of the voters of his district, who overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama, of Illinois.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28lewis.html

[1StrongBlackMan]

7. Do you really think a District that is nearly 60% African-American ...

is going to go to Bernie? ... especially when he is polling in the teens among that population?

Candidate Obama was consistently polling in the 30s among African-Americans and was consistently within 15 points of HRC in 2007.

Completely different scenario.

[Scootaloo]

8. I think there's a lot of time between now and then

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. Unfortunately for you & BS, not enough time. BS is no Barack Obama. Clinton would have won AA

support, just as she won Latino/a support last time, had it not been for a "NEWCOMER" named Barack Hussein Obama. BS is no "NEWCOMER".

[Scootaloo]

18. You make it sound like an episode of Scooby Doo.

"And she would have gotten that district too, if it hadn't been for those meddling voters!"

Maybe you're right. But also, maybe you're not. We've got until super Tuesday to find out, don't we?

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. Bookmark this page.

[JustAnotherGen]

25. Can you put this in your online calendar?

I want notification the day after Super Tuesday!

[Tarheel_Dem]

32. Will do! I cannot fathom, in a zillion years, how these delusional people think that BS will.....

somehow magically inherit Barack Obama's most loyal constituency. It is to laugh. Someone should tell them to stop looking for similarities between BS & Barack Obama's campaign. It is much more akin to Howard Dean's 2004 campaign. A lot of excited and very passionate white liberals, but little to nobody else. That is not a winning formula for any "Democrat"..

[JustAnotherGen]

34. Tell the guy I responded to down thread

Lewis is a solid long time Democratic - he's always flown that flag.

Can we stop for a second and acknowledge it wasn't just a March in the deep South and an arrest -

It was physical brutality and he's lucky to be alive. This is an extremely brave man - but he had to be.

No one was going to help us - until thar physical violence, bombings, burnings, lynchings were meted out as a result of black folks standing up for themselves.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Don't forget - that's the Hot Lanta area 1strong

Well educated, affluent.

They tend to be quite a bit more conservative than the North Eastern/Mid Atlantic folks.

It includes 3/4 of Atlanta.

I posted this knowing folks were going to be upset or hopeful - but they have to face reality now.

Those folks aren't going for Sanders. They are not. So just forget it. And John Lewis won't be supporting him either. IF Sanders were to prevail - he would do it out of duty to his party in the G.E. -

But he's not switching on this one.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. Soooo True ...

Well educated, affluent ... Those folks aren't going for Sanders.

[JustAnotherGen]

24. That corporate overlord talk

Sanders is going to have to have his gotv'ers tamp down.

I'm trying to imagine them knocking on John's door, Morehouse Grad, Harvard MBA and Law - and now Seminary graduate Minister -


Oooooh boy - they are going to have to shift gears big time.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Don't think that's going to happen this time

Just like I don't think O'Malley or Sanders have a snowball's chance in hell of grabbing the primary in South Carolina.

From 2010 - but it's really only getting better for blacks in that district. If god forbid something happened to my husband - I would sell my house and move ot Hot Lanta. Not only do I have a bunch of friends from high school down there (many stayed after attending Spelman and Morehouse) but I also have quite a few cousins in that district. And my dad's older brother - my uncle Otis who I'm sure had a disco with Lewis at Church on this!

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/georgia/5


District Demographics

Race and ethnicity

District
White 37.6%
Black 50.2%
Hispanic 8.1%
Asian 2.6%
Native American 0.7%

Median income $50,072
Poverty rate 15.2%
Below $25,000 25.4%
$25,000-$50,000 23.4%
$50,000-$100,000 25.1%
$100,000-$200,000 15.7%
$200,000 or more 9.2%

Education

District


U.S.

High school graduate 84.6% (higher than US in 2010 which was 84.5%)
Bachelor's degree or higher 42.9% (higher than us in 2010 which was 27.4%)


Age
District
U.S. Under 18 21.7%
65 and older 9.0%



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I think we O'Malley supporters and Bernie supporters have to accept defeat on this one.

It is what it is - but I predicted this on September 14th. That area of Georgia - my well educated peers are going to go Clinton. They are more conservative than those of us in the Mid Atlantic States.

[Scootaloo]

12. Maybe not.

Point is, I don't think Clinton can take it for granted, either.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. I don't think she will

That's a very democratic district - and it fits with her vision. She'll be there.

[Iliyah]

5. K & R

[stonecutter357]

6. K&R!

[lunamagica]

11. K&R.

[leftofcool]

22. K and R

[Lisa D]

26. K&R

Love the photos and words of John Lewis!

[DashOneBravo]

53. +1

[zappaman]

27. LOVE this man!

[brer cat]

28. K&R

[Thinkingabout]

29. K & R

John Lewis is a great man, has worked very hard in his life to make life better for others,

[DrBulldog]

30. Funny thing. While scanning the photos and comments above I got the impression that . . .

. . . his career strongly parallels that of Bernie Sanders.

Gee, does anyone recall Hillary doing racial activism work 40-50 years ago?

[JustAnotherGen]

33. I don't think it parallels at all

Sanders has focused primarily on economic justice - Lewis always has his eyes on Civil Rights and making sure all Americans - can be assured they have the most basic rights.

Let's face it - his district has prosperous blacks moving to it from all over the country (see my posts up thread) for a reason.

It's not just two HBCUs - it really does have a "feel" to it.

They have both achieved what they have - because of their very different focus points. But they are indeed different.

He (Lewis) could have fled as so many did - he chose to stand and fight - just as my grandfather did in the 1920's (a Morehouse grad) when so many from his graduating class moved to Harlem, Boston, and California.

Now the children and grandchildren at the tail end of the Great Migration - move down South for economic opportunity. It has to be the "right" place - and his district is the right place.

[Number23]

37. My grandad was a Morehouse grad too!!!!!

Oh my God! Once again I feel like we are the same person or at the very least, spiritual 1st cousins!!



And my granny went across the road to Spellman.

[JustAnotherGen]

40. What years did they graduate?

Mary and Richard were * I think* 1919 and 1921.

My granddaddy got himself an older woman!

[Number23]

41. Naw girl, I think my grandad was more like the early 50s

He got there a few years before MLK!

[JustAnotherGen]

42. He might have been there with my Uncle Otis

Keep in mind - I'm the youngest of 33 grandchildren. My moms grandparents were my dad's parents contemporaries! My dad was a rebel - Tuskeegee man!

[Number23]

48. 33 grandchildren??! Goodness gracious! The JAG family has been QUITE busy!

We have a couple of Tuskeegee alums in my family too! And my granny's sister went to Mo Brown. HBCU's are well represented in my family but having gone to an all black pre-school, elementary school, middle school and high school, I wanted to see what else was out there when I went to college.

When I started my undergrad, for the first time in my ENTIRE life, I understood what it meant to be a minority. Up until that point I kept "hearing" that black folks were a minority but that's all I ever saw everywhere I looked. That was some scary shit.

[JustAnotherGen]

57. My dad was at the the tail end of ten

His older siblings would say - he and the twins (born when his mom was in her early 40's - total oops babies!) had different parents than those who were born when my grandparents were in their 20's and 30's.

Being the baby of the 33? Going down there for weeks at a time when I was a little kid without my parents? I had totally different grands than my cousins in their 60s!

Example - figuring out that I could pop popcorn by throwing it at the cow fence and eating it like a baby seal. My granddaddy doesn't warn me or my comrades in doing the wrong thing about the dangers involved - just says "I don't grow a lot of that corn so don't eat it all." Zero Adult Guidance.

Good times. Good times.

Charmed life. One set of grands had a home with a boat on Lake Tahoe and one in La Jolla. They were the young 'uns who played with us.

The other set had goats and dogs and chickens and tractors and a bull (that was not fun - ouch) and by the time I came along - were completely immune to the antics of little people "goin for bad".

[1StrongBlackMan]

58. Now ... You two are just bragging ...

e'rybody knows ya'll just 'posed to be moanin'.

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. So John Lewis owes BS an endorsement for marching 50 years ago? Did you read his reasons...

for his endorsement of Sec Clinton? I've got news for you...the most liberal CBC member and lone opponent of the IWR, Barbara Lee, has also endorsed Hillary. There's a reason for it, but you won't figure it out until the primaries are already over.

[Number23]

36. Sometimes it just seems like these folks have GOT to be pulling our legs, don't it?

That they could not POSSIBLY be for real.

[Tarheel_Dem]

39. Do you feel obligated to support BS cuz of some shit he did before you were even born? I don't.

And you're so right, no other icon is more appropriate. They need to stop that shit. It's no longer a palatable argument, just ask Black Twitter.

[Chitown Kev]

43. This is one of the most ignorant-ass postings

that I have ever seen in my life.

[JustAnotherGen]

46. You are welcome in my home at any time

[lib87]

45. I Came Out of Lurkdom

To laugh at this.

Bernie Sanders is his own man with his own accomplishments which is fine. This need to constantly try to compare and tie him to great Black civil rights activists (especially in a Black forum space) will always end poorly. Always.

[JustAnotherGen]

47. I know - right? n/t

[Digital Puppy]

61. Really??? His CAREER??????

Not sure what to say to that line of reasoning...I guess I was blind and now I see!! This changes everything!! Thank the Lawd someone has taken the veil from ma blind eyes!!! Thanks soooo much for 'splaining' that to me!!

[Starry Messenger]

38. He's a national treasure.

Anyone endorsed by John Lewis couldn't help but feel extra wind in their sails. <3

[Cha]

44. Really Wonderful, OP, Gen.. Thank you for the John Lewis Endorsement of Hillary!

[Number23]

49. The dust up in GDP over this was at parts predictable and incredibly hilarious

I was totally expecting the "Hillary twisted his arm" crap from some and it was there. What I was not expecting was for someone to be so incensed over this endorsement that they would actually CALL HIS OFFICE to "confirm" that's what happened. That was absolutely surreal.

But for the most part, the conversations were mostly respectful. I guess after the BLM fiasco, a few here have realized that they truly cannot afford to alienate black folks even further.

[Chitown Kev]

50. The conversation over here

has been really tame, lol

Over at DK, though...well, it's a hot mess...836 comments in Miss Dee's diary and at least two response diaries...

[Number23]

52. An excellent diary which lead me to a Kos post about Sanders supporters shitting all over John Lewis

Facebook page after he endorsed Hillary. Edit: Corrected the Link! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08/1429419/-John-Lewis-Endorses-Hillary-Clinton-and-No-One-Should-Second-Guess-Him

I am so goddamned sick of these fucking people.

A sample of the comments:

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1429419/57862918#c57

A few favorites:

You're bought and paid for bufoon, she accomplished nothing as Secretary of State except for bringing money into the Clinton Foudation, vote for Sanders or Joe

Sell out much ? Bernie is better by a long shot. Not even close.

Shame on you, not joining your brother-in-arms in civil rights, Bernie Sanders. You tarnish your reputation with taint that is Hillary D. R. Clinton.

Unreal.

[lovemydog]

59. Tragic.

Many white people who self-describe as 'progressive' have an ignorance problem and a racism problem. Perhaps the racism is borne of ignorance. It's still ignorant racism, imho.

[revmclaren]

51. K & R

[redstateblues]

54. Wonder how Bernie will do in SC?

[JustAnotherGen]

60. I think they will go for Clinton in the Primary

Second will be O'Malley if he gets traction in IA or NH. I think there is room for upset in the party. That's not to offend Clinton OR Sanders supporters.

Reality is - the real under dog in this Campaign is O'Malley. None of the three has a snowball's chance in hell of getting the low information white male voter in square and Southern states with a chip on his shoulder about "them ones" taking something from him.

In the GE the state goes to the Republicans as a default.

In 2014 (articles on the web) the SC voter turn out was the lowest in decades and that's probably why Governor Phoney Baloney won again. iF we have a strong Democratic voter turn out and IF we gain swing votes we might get it. But I doubt it . . . Regardless of who the nominee is - they stay Red.

Better to focus on PA (there were voting rights shenanigans there in 2012) than SC in the GE.

Oh - and Trump looks good to them now but he will be a gift to our party in a GE. It's well known in NYC he pays around on his wife. He has them paid off now but will they stay quiet? And the pictures of his current wife floating around aren't going to play well when they pop back up in a GE.

[MADem]

56. Yes, he has!!!!

There was quite a kerfluffle about that on this board, earlier today.