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John Lewis' Floor Speech on Racism and Voting Rights - clip from Hardball (Original Post)
Tx4obama
May 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Tears and cheers for John Lewis for taking down that fool!
lamp_shade
(14,834 posts)2. That brought tears to my eyes too. What a strong, wonderful man he is.
nolabear
(41,982 posts)3. That was just awesome. Glad you posted it.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)4. At a time when Republicans are making radical changes state by state with the help of
Republican governors, this slick willie wanted to cut federal funding to section 5 of the Voting Rights amendment, which requires federal approval before states or counties change their election laws.
Good job, Rep. Lewis!