John Lewis' Early Activism Years Are Explored in New Documentary

“The radicalism of the Civil Rights Movement. The social radicalism. The civic radicalism. All of that inspires a lot of the conclusions and the beliefs that I have today,” AOC says in the documentary, “I know that if John Lewis as a 19, 20-year-old wasn’t doing what he did, I would not be here today.”

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis prepares to pay his respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings who lies in state within Statuary Hall during a memorial ceremony on Capitol Hill on October 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. As AOC notes, it’s impossible to separate the work that was done in the 1960’s by Civil Rights leaders, including John Lewis, from the work that’s being done today. "As a teenager, John Lewis, or as Martin Luther King Jr.

AOC Correct, you would have to be a Republican, Democrats didn’t have congressmen of color until the 1970’s

AOC So we have him to blame

AOC Two black people got murdered in Marcy Housing last night , the police are afraid to respond because BLM HOODLOOMS, Black Folks are being murdered yet NYC Mayor DeBlasio is busy painting bullshit yellow BLM paint on front of Trump Tower while black people are murdered every night

AOC John Lewis enriched himself off taxpayer $$$ for over 33 years just for being an MLK cronie!! You are right, you are also already getting rich off taxpayer $$$ - you already took over $800k in campaign funds and nobody is investigating and you are not arrested!!

AOC Oooo, maybe he shouldn’t have done what he did then.

AOC Remarkable example for all of us

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AOC Don't blame John Lewis for AOC

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AOC Don't start a boycott Lewis movement.

AOC One thing he got wrong then. Apparently. :-/

AOC If only he was that productive from age 21 to 80. After he took the baton to the head on the bridge, he didn't do much to help Atlanta or the US.

AOC One amazing thing about JL is that in 1965 he was so brave, so dedicated, so willing that he sacrificed his well-being to champion human rights here in America. Do you know who was against him? Cops! Cops BEAT him. This is amazing because I was only born the year it happened

AOC Regrettably, they don't make leaders like John Lewis anymore. Leaders seem to only want black votes and their taxpayers' dollars to misappropriate funds and allow major cities to run wild and dangerous. God truly blessed John Lewis.

AOC He wouldn’t have taken a cush job writing for teen vogue either.

I will tame this one

JohnLewisDoc Also remember some of the BLM protestors are also anarchist.

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