Essentially he said..Once upon a time I was the 15 year old activist Michael Render, and 20 year old activist Michael Render, and at 25 I was still the activist Michael Render..."
To paraphrase I respect John Lewis the 21 year old protester who paved the way for us all now and I also respect the John Lewis of today, but we can respectfully disagree with our senior leaders, and I respectfully disagree with the John Lewis of today, and I suspect that if the John Lewis of age 20 or 21 were here today, he'd be supporting the campaign of Bernard Sanders...
He also commented that NAFTA had done more to take away jobs for African Americans than anything, and I hadn't thought about that but it makes sense.
He talked about the consistency of "Bernard Sanders", from 50 years ago being chained to a young black man in a segregated housing protest to 22 years ago speaking out against the injustice of the Superpredator act, that even though he ended up voting for it after the assault weapon ban and the violence against women amendments were added, he clearly stated that it was a compromise at the time for the sake of those additions but that he still thought the mass incarceration aspect was wrong.
Man he was eloquent and positive.
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