Let's just call John Lewis (D-GA) what he is: a racebaiter.
It is not deniable. It is not controversial. John Lewis, whomade history standing up for civil rights, has become a parody ofhis former self. It is somewhat understandable. He struggled forcivil rights in the sixties. He saw friends gun downed by whitepolice officers and was himself targeted.
But John Lewis has never put aside the legitimate hate hedeveloped in the sixties. All struggles now are as bad as strugglesthen for John Lewis. He uses his celebrity to drive the hyperboleof race baiting.
The left may not like me saying it, but it is the truth.
In 2006, John Lewis cooperated with a radio ad for John Eaves,the present Chairman of the Fulton County Commission in Georgia.The ad played on black radio stations. In it, Lewis said this:
On Nov. 7, we face the most dangerous situation we ever have.You think fighting off dogs and water hoses in the '60s was bad.[Now we] sit idly by, and let the right-wing Republicans takecontrol of the Fulton County County Commission.
This was followed with Atlanta's current mayor Shirley Franklinclaiming the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr. might be undone andof former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young saying they couldn't afford toturn the clock back.
Lewis, though, got the last word, saying:
Your very life may depend on it.
The message is clear: Vote Republican and you go back toslavery.
John Lewis is a race baiter. The man who routinely sows seeds ofhatred in the black community against the white community is reallyin no position to accuse John McCain of anything.