Rep. Sewell: John Lewis was ‘a beacon of hope’

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'We are going to see the Voting Rights Act full restored,' Rep. Sewell says in the wake of Rep. John Lewis' passing. 'We will keep the march and keep the promise that is America that John so desperately believed in.'

 

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What’s keeping folks from walking in, and voting? I head down to my polling place in my neighborhood and vote when the time comes...

This is just plain stupid. The VRA requires approval of the House of Representatives and the senate and the president and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that elections have to be vetted by the federal government to prevent racist elections.

LMFAO are you joking representative Lewis sign the Clinton crime bill that called for the mass incarceration of African-Americans he sold his people out to globalist now he's with Pope John Paul and Adolf Hitler where he belongs

Black people can't vote?

What race can’t vote! I’m confuse!

Giving voting rights to illegals is like milk and cookies for illibirals

Fully restored is what she said.

He was a beacon of something alright.

The right to freely express ones opinion through the casting of a vote was passionately fought for and defended by John. We must be as committed as he was to this crucial fundamental right of all citizens, free of ill motivated political acts of voter suppression.

Who isn’t being allowed to vote?

How is his district that he was elected to serve? Hear that it is in amazing shape

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