The eruption of hostilities between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights  Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) may be recorded as just one more example of what has become standard Twitter retaliation for Trump.

(And why shouldn’t PE Trump reply on twitter – John Lewis stated his diatribe on national TV.  Lewis did this to stir up trouble before the King weekend holiday.  This was all planned by the Dem’s and Obama.)

But coming on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, it also reignited the passions around Trump’s difficult history with African Americans, the group of voters from whom he might be most alienated as he prepares to move into the White House this week.

(This was done because Trump received a lot of Democrat votes and this is the crux of matter.)

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Friday, Lewis said he did not regard Trump to be “a legitimate president” because of allegations that high-level Russian operatives interfered in the election on Trump’s behalf. Trump lobbed back with a tweet in the early hours of Saturday morning that disparaged both the congressman and his district, which includes some of Atlanta’s most affluent neighborhoods.

(Lewis deliberately started the kerfuffle.)

“Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart,” Trump wrote. “(Not to . . .” — in fact, he needed two tweets to finish the thought — “mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk — no action or results. Sad!”

Trump continued his taunts in a separate tweet Saturday evening, saying Lewis should “finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!”

Trump’s attack on Lewis drew widespread condemnation across party lines, particularly given Lewis’s role in the fight for black voting rights.

“John Lewis is beyond a doubt the conscience of the country and that’s why his people [constituents] send him to Congress,” said Kwame Lillard, an activist who helped to organize the civil-rights-era Freedom Rides and has known Lewis for more than 60 years.

(If Lewis is the conscience of the country than he needs to use his common sense as a leader.  If he doesn’t want to do his job and attend the inauguration then he needs to resign and let someone else go.)

Lewis also was one of the leaders of the legendary Selma to Montgomery voting rights march in 1965, in which Alabama state troopers clashed with marchers, leaving many of them, including Lewis, badly injured. The march entered the American lexicon as “Bloody Sunday” and the stark images of the police beatings helped build support for the civil right movement.

Shamed Dogan, a Republican member of Missouri House of Representatives, said the state’s new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, attended the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration two days after taking office. “I would like to see Donald Trump take the same approach to the Congressional Black Caucus and find common ground with them instead of feuding with heroes like Congressman Lewis,” Dogan said.

(Looks like Dogan is blowing smoke.)

Since Election Day, he has said he would reach out to voters who did not support him in an effort to bring the country together.

During the transition, Trump has been frequently photographed with black celebrities at his New York headquarters, including the rapper Kanye West, retired football great Ray Lewis and boxing promoter Don King. On Friday, he was visited by Steve Harvey, a comedian, game-show host and dating-advice guru. Harvey supported Clinton and had been critical of Trump during the campaign, but after their meeting he said the president-elect was “congenial and sincere.”

In the closing weeks of the campaign, Trump began appealing to black voters to give him a chance. Speaking at rallies, to overwhelmingly white audiences, Trump described black people as living “in hell,” stuck in crumbling, crime-ridden neighborhoods and failing schools: “What do you have to lose?” he asked.

(This prior paragraph is what is bothering John Lewis – the fact PE Trump wants to clean up the intercities and John Lewis and the Dem’s do not want that to happen because if this happens – Lewis and his fellow blacks pimping will stop when the blacks wise up.)

“If Donald Trump cared about black people, he wouldn’t have denigrated the president with those claims of birtherism ,” he said. Hughley, who in the late 1990s toured with Harvey as part of the popular “Kings of Comedy,” said Trump was more comfortable with black entertainers. “You’d rather see us run the football than run the country.”

(Then why did Obama spend millions of dollars and hire Elena Kagan as his lawyer to seal all of his personal records – what is he hiding?  And then placed her on the Supreme Court to keep her mouth shut.)

So far Trump has nominated only one African American for a Cabinet position: retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Harvey told reporters that Trump asked him to work with Carson on inner-city issues.

Some political observers say Carson’s appointment is an indication that Trump is not serious about improving the lives of people in struggling communities.

(This is what gets me the blacks even put down their own people.)

Michael Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, said that in touting Carson and Harvey as his urban policy team, Trump is practicing “affirmative action in the worst sense of that term.”

(No, Dyson – these leaders are pimping the black people.)

“Steve Harvey is a talented comedian but he is not a politician, a policy maker. He nor Carson have any expertise in the issues they will oversee,” Dyson said. “This is really nothing more than an attempted end run around serious engagement and an example of the kind of visionary bankruptcy of President-elect Trump.”

(Who are these people to decide who will be on PE Trump’s team by continuing to criticize their own people?  The problem are the politicians and PE Trump wants people who are not politicians.  Lewis has had three decades to do something for the black people and what has he and the black caucus done – nothing.)

(The end  result is Lewis is part of the crowd who are pimping the blacks.)

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