Tea party protesters call Georgia’s John Lewis ‘nigger’ (McClatchy Newspapers)

March 21st, 2010 Comments off

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is questioned by reporters about an incident involving tea party demonstrators as he leaves a speech by President Obama to House Democrats on Saturday, March 20, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.


(cross-reference: McClatchy Newspapers, http://www.mcclatchy.com/)

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