Obama invokes John Lewis, MLK in appeal to disillusioned voters in Atlanta
Source: Politico
Former President Barack Obama on Monday made a concerted effort to turn out disaffected Black voters in Atlanta, using local civil rights icons and this summer’s protests for racial justice to appeal to voters who might be turned off by the more incremental changes accomplished by electoral politics.
“Maybe you don’t like who’s in the White House right now. But you just lost faith in government, you’re frustrated, you don’t think government makes a difference,” he told supporters at a Georgia rally, addressing his comments specifically to those who had decided not to vote in this year’s election.
The former president noted that he’d experienced his fair share of disappointment in politics both during and after his eight years in the White House.
But Obama invoked hometown civil rights icons like the late Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., arguing that both men understood that activism in the streets needed to be paired with even incremental progress in the political realm.
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