John Robert Lewis - US Congressman for GA Remembered

The Gentle Giant - The Boy from Troy and "Peace-Saint" of the World

John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. Lewis served as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. Wikipedia

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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2020

USA/WORLD - As the On-the-Road 6-day admiration begins for the "boy from Troy" (Troy, AL), we smile with joy as we remember his deeds for 65+ years.  For he was a relentless fighter for "GOOD TROUBLE" - If you see something that is NOT RIGHT, you must do something - speak up and speak out.  Being prepared.  Being trained was part of being "particular".

What Mama said
"Be Particular" was one of the many admonitions from his mother, Mrs. Willie Mae Carter, before he left home. She warned of not "making trouble with the segregation strife at the time.  His choice, "Good Trouble" required his commitment to being "particular".  His HOPE.

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THE VIEW
This a visit with the ladies of the View. 

The Disrespect - Racism shown with the People's Flag in Milwaukee

July 19, 2020

CITY-COUNTY-WIDE NEWSLETTER

"As a Milwaukeean, African American Milwaukeean, I find the People's Flag OFFENSIVE", said Mary Glass, Chief Visionary Officer, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC.

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CITY-WIDE MILWAUKEE

MILWAUKEE || Two years ago, JULY 19, 2018, the article posted by Mary Glass was called,

As a Milwaukeean, African American Milwaukeean, I find the "People's Flag" OFFENSIVE.

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The article spoke of three (3) aldermen - Robert Donovan-District 8, Khalif Rainey-District 7, and Cavalier Johnson-District 2 that seem to have forgotten their fiduciary responsibility for ALL Milwaukeeans, especially African Americans and other People of Color - Not just Caucasians.

There are emphasis and inference by David Lenz and other individuals who have engaged in segregation, discrimination, redlining, excluding African Americans and other People of Color historic fingerprint, taxation without representation, and disregard for Due Process.  Lenz's idea for a NEW Milwaukee failed due to his racist's approach and DISRESPECT for Moving the Needle for Equity Inclusion.

Since the article in 2018, the supporters have gained like-mind supporters that are known for their Caucasian-only issues input, i.e., John Gruda - a man who has been privileged with privilege in Milwaukee - Channel 10, Milwaukee Public Library Board, take-over of the neighborhood signage of neighborhood posters with a staff and profit in mild associated city of Milwaukee paid staff.  Then, there is the EXCLUSION of African Americans and other People of Color from Gurda's "Making of Milwaukee" books.

City of Milwaukee Neighborhood posters

SLAVERY

MPA-LLC Moving the Needle for Equity Inclusion and Stomping Out Racial Disorder encourages dialog and corrections for ensuring that SLAVERY - forced or coerced into serving and/or fraudulently convinced that they have no option to leave, is not the way to EXCLUDE People of Color and their neighborhoods.

The so-called People's Flag is offensive like the "Confederate Flag".  Whereas the Confederate Flag is more egregious however the premise is where we hold accountability and authenticity.  DISRESPECT and failure to show R E S P E C T for the majority population of People of Color that make up the largest city in Wisconsin is how we arrived with Caucasians setting the standards for "People's" in Milwaukee.  We, People of Color did not help define the name.

Just as the Confederate Flag is a commercial focus, we see that the so-called People's Flag is being flown and sold - flag, clothing, etc.  This is a form of taxation without representation found in Lenz's supporters' sales and John Gurda selling of the neighborhood posters.

Tom Barrett at MASK signing with So-Called People's Flag

Oath of Office Tom Barrett Mayor - by Judge Joe Donald
Location:  Tom Barrett's Home
People's Flagg on wall

No Tom

We vehemently frown on Tom Barrett, mayor showing this flag on the wall of his home at his 2020 OATH, April 21, 2020, since "People's Flag" do NOT represent African Americans and other People of Color - the largest population of Milwaukee.

Barrett is seen wearing this logo on a "Mask" during city meetings - MASK SIGNING and Sherman Phoenix Fond du Lac quickie-pretend "ribbon cutting" (he and the Department of Public Works - Jeffrey Polenske Commissioner's charade that failed to include the residential and commercial Core Constituents in Metcalfe, Amani, Sherman Park, 30 Street Corridor, etc. 

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As we look at the Exposé of Hog Wild Behavior of the last 16 years with the leadership of Tom Barrett mayor and other Charter Officers will show things will change because we will work to see that they change.

Exposé of Hog Wild Behavior 

updated - July 21, 2020

The HONORABLE CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, a Graceful and true Saint-HERO of Fighting for Civil Rights

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John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil rights leader.  He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving in his 17th term in the House, having served since 1987, and was the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. Wikipedia
Born: February 21, 1940, Troy, AL
Died: July 17, 2020, Atlanta, GA

We want our freedom now. John Lewis
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2020
USA - MILWAUKEE || Today we entertained the news of the death of the Honorable GA Congressman John Robert Lewis.  

He is the "saint-hero" of HOPE and drum major of "good trouble" - fighting for civil rights.  He slipped away Friday night and ended his personal day-to-day perseverance on this small real estate of the world - America.  He died of pancreatic cancer.
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His work is admired and honored by millions because of his footprint - his commitment to HOPE.
How he has worked over sixty years in providing a pathway through "hard times" and brutality from Caucasians - primarily Caucasian men in the South.  He suffered the bitter pill of hatred - racism, segregation,, and discrimination IN the public square.  His family members were sharecroppers.   He saw the mistreatment of Blacks/  and sought to change them through peaceful non-violence protest.  He was physically beaten many times.  He had his skull cracked and suffer brain injuries.  One of the most brutal beatings was on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL by a state trooper.  He did not stop.  He followed his commitment to the cause of justice and civil rights.  He sought and received the guidance of Dr. Martin Luther King.  He is/was known as the "boy from Troy, AL".

Below are GIANTS of the civil rights movement in America.  They are some of the men and women that framed civil rights in America before and during the 60+ years of the saint-hero Congressman John Lewis.  They are the African American Founding Fathers and Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in America.  They have been selected as members of the notable council of Congressman John Robert Lewis.  They are: 

  

L-R - ROW ONE - U.S. Congressman John Robert Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Rev. James David Abernathy, Rev./Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., MALCOLM X (Malcolm Little),

L-R - ROW TWO - Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays,  Dr. W.E.B. DeBois,  Rev. Andrew Jackson Young Jr.

L-R - ROW THREE - Diane Judith Nash (civil rights activist), Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist), Fannie Lou Hammer (civil rights activist) Ella Jo Baker (civil rights activist), Rosa Louise McCauley Parks 

L-R - ROW FOUR - Medgar Wiley Evers (civil rights activist), Rev. Hosea Lorenzo Williams, A. Phillip Randolph (civil rights activist), Bernard Lafayette (civil rights activist), Bayard Ruskin (civil rights activist)

L-R - ROW FIVE -Harry Belafonte - Harold George Bellenfanti Jr, Jamaican Singer & activist, Sojourner Truth (abolitionist and women rights activist), Harriet Tubman (abolitionist and political activist), Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass (abolitionist, reformer, statesman)

One of his final acts for helping us was his appeal through  House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy for Education.

Do you know him?  
What is your story - stories of him?
Commit to "good trouble".  
Commit to "VOTE".

What signs - issues and placards that you do NOT like that are mentioned in the above Youtube video by Honorable John Robert Lewis's legacy?

John Lewis is a Black Founding Father of America.
Listen to his introduction of himself.


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John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights leader. He was the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. The district he served includes the northern three-fourths of Atlanta. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Lewis, who as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington, played many key roles in the Civil Rights Movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. He was a member of the Democratic Party leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives and had served from 1991 until death as a Chief Deputy Whip and Senior Chief Deputy Whip from 2003 to his death.

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Congressman John Lewis with Mayor Muriel Bowser at Washington, DC BLACK LIVES MATTER PAINTED STREET.
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African Americans and People of Color Callout "MILWAUKEE" Charter Officers for Transparency and Accountability

 NO EXEMPTION.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2020

MILWAUKEE || City and County government have Charter officers elected and appointed.  They are members of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of local government.  Oftentimes, they are career employees at the expense of the electorate with little to NO accountability.  Accountability is defined here as:  

Accountability. refers to an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one's actions. ... When roles are not clear and people are not held accountable, work does not get done properly, and learning is not possible.

County of Milwaukee
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City of Milwaukee
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Charter Officers' decisions and lack of decisions have been found ROOTED in Racial Disorder and provided an ongoing Infrastructure pandemic of Systemic Racism.  

SYSTEM RACISM has created a crippling Enduring Concentrated Poverty of the population of the city of Milwaukee - the largest city in Wisconsin and therefore the largest city of African Americans in Wisconsin. The many reports - public and private - convey facts of discrimination, segregation, pitting African Americans, and other People of Color against each other and against "Caucasians of privilege".

Annually removal of massive sums of federal funding that is earmarked for Smart Growth for Milwaukeeans is given to Caucasians and those with monopoly-oligopoly powers made by charter officers in Leadership.  This is solidified by judicial conveyance.

CHARTER OFFICERS' LEADERSHIP

Guidance from those elected and appointed for 4-year terms has reached an epidemic level with a punitive and disrespectful culture supported by charter officers at the city of Milwaukee city hall and Milwaukee county site that perpetuates "slave-tones in behavior".

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explains color and slavery.  LISTEN UP.

We see the color of African Americans being a consistent factor for discrimination and lack of DUE PROCESS.

We start with an Exposé "Hog Wild Brownsville Version" - Hog Wild Institutional Racism in Milwaukee by Elected Officials, Two Societies, one black one white - separate and unequal in Milwaukee. 9-11-08  18774 views Scribd.com
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