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Whatever possessed Rob Schneider to whitesplain or stupidsplain Civil Rights activism (via twitter) to John Lewis? Fortunately the twitterverse is setting him straight
https://www.google.com/amp/observer.com/2017/01/rob-schneider-just-got-in-the-middle-of-the-john-lewis-donald-trump-twitter-war/amp/?client=ms-android-att-us
Rob Schneider
Rep. Lewis. You are a great person. But Dr. King didn't give in to his anger or his hurt. That is how he accomplished & won Civil Rights.
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Will Wheaton
Rob Schneider lecturing @repjohnlewis is the most embarrassing thing he's ever done. Yes, this includes The Animal
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Who on God's green earth even asked your opinion on the Civil Rights Movement?Crawl back to the end of the credits of an Adam Sandler movie https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/821054409106821120
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Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man who tries to lecture a civil rights hero about MLK.
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(Edited to add that only the first response was from Wil Wheaton, and the others are from different tweeters, in case that wasn't clear)
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(80,708 posts)But Citizen Kane, it wasn't.
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dalton99a
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(13,776 posts)"Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man who tries to lecture a civil rights hero about MLK."
... but I love them.