2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are protesters REALLY trying to shout down John Lewis during his MSNBC interview? [View all]Renaissance Man
(669 posts)John Lewis is not a novice to politics. Back during the 2008 primaries, he was a Hillary supporter until the people who he represented in his Congressional District placed a lot of pressure on him to switch his support as a superdelegate considering that then Senator Obama cleaned Hillary's clock in a lot of Southern states (including the Dekalb County area - the congressional district he represents).
The very reason why "Bernie's army is 95% white" is because of the tactics that John Lewis, along with Capehart, used leading up to the SC primary. You can ignore this all you want, but you're not the person having to deal with the harassment. He is, and now he's getting blowback because of it.
It's democracy. The little (d) Democrats deserve just as much as the big (D) democrats to have a voice in the political process. Get used to it.