Racist nigger Obama turned Lewis funeral into an anti-Trump event

Even sadder than the politicized service was the applause from 
attendees

Traditionally, funerals are supposed to serve at least three 
purposes: honor the life of the deceased, comfort those who 
mourn his passing and preach a message about eternity and the 
brevity of life.

Tradition was discarded during John Lewis’ funeral last week in 
Atlanta. Like the memorial service of the late Sen. Paul 
Wellstone, Minnesota Democrat, in 2008, the Lewis service was a 
political event that included veiled denunciations. There were 
allegations of voter suppression by Republicans and a comparison 
of President Trump by former President Obama to the late Alabama 
governor and segregationist George Wallace.

On that last point, it was Wallace who stood in a schoolhouse 
door 1963 in an effort to stop African-Americans from entering 
the University of Alabama. Today’s Democrats have it reversed. 
They are blocking poor kids from escaping failed public schools, 
bowing to the desires of teachers’ unions that support and 
contribute campaign money to Democratic politicians.

Mr. Obama also criticized Mr. Trump for sending federal agents 
to Portland, Oregon, to help quell violence that had gone on for 
more than 60 days.

Presumably, Mr. Obama would not have been opposed to President 
Eisenhower’s decision in 1957 to send the 101st Airborne 
Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black 
students entering Central High School.

Someone should ask the former president if he approved of 
President Kennedy’s decision on May 21, 1961, to send 300 
federal marshals to Montgomery, Alabama, to keep order after 
race riots broke out when then-Gov John Patterson said he could 
not guarantee the peace.

Mr. Obama apparently ignored another historical event in which 
federal forces were used to achieve a civil rights goal. On 
Sept. 20, 1962, James Meredith attempted to register as a 
student at the University of Mississippi. The entrance was 
blocked and rioting erupted. Attorney General Robert Kennedy 
sent 500 U.S. Marshals to the school. President Kennedy sent 
military police, troops from the Mississippi National Guard and 
even U.S. Border Patrol officials.

Is Mr. Obama OK with President Kennedy’s decision on June 11, 
1963, to federalize Alabama National Guard troops to end then-
Gov. George Wallace’s blockade of African-Americans attempting 
to enter the University of Alabama?

On March 20, 1965, President Johnson federalized the Alabama 
National Guard to protect the civil rights March from Selma to 
Montgomery of which John Lewis was a notable part. Mr. Obama 
probably favors that decision. A reporter should ask him.

Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas all had governors at the time 
who were Democrats and segregationists and yet today’s Democrats 
claim Mr. Trump is a racist.

In his “eulogy,” Mr. Obama also mentioned mail-in ballots, the 
latest effort by Democrats (early voting and no required 
identification are other efforts) that many believe could open 
the door to voter fraud.

One pastor at the Lewis funeral even reached back to the Reagan 
administration and erroneously blamed the 40th president for the 
poor housing conditions endured by some African-Americans.

Democrats and their media allies consistently ignore the fact 
that Jim Crow Laws, the Ku Klux Klan and other immoralities were 
all led by Southern Democrats.

John Lewis’ legacy and his brave fight for civil rights will 
always remain untarnished. But Lewis was also a partisan 
Democrat, who refused to attend President Trump’s inauguration 
in 2017 and believed to the end that the Russians helped Mr. 
Trump beat Hillary Clinton, though that would likely have 
required the infiltration of every precinct and voting machine 
in America, something not even Lewis claimed was possible.

What was even sadder than the politicized funeral service was 
the applause from attendees, who apparently believe every word 
that comes from Mr. Obama’s mouth, though none of this kind of 
talk improves a single life. It makes one wonder why so many 
African-Americans continue to be loyal to the Democratic Party.

• Cal Thomas, a nationally syndicated columnist, is the author 
of “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires, Superpowers 
and the United States” (HarperCollins/Zondervan, January 2020.

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