John Lewis versus "BY God" Tommy Tubberville on Gun Control
John Lewis died today. I met him twice, once in Atlanta and then again in 2012 to march across the Selma Bridge with Ethel Kennedy. I was back in 2015 with Barack Obama And George W. Bush 43.
I didn't see Tommy Tubberville there either time. I guess he was in Florida or Arkansas.
When Tommy defeated Sessions Tuesday night he grabbed a microphone and said "By God let them Come to Alabama and try and take our guns."
Asa Carter who wrote Wallace's Gauntlet Segregation Now and Forever January 63 speech had Tommy's back on that utterance.
Doing so Tommy the super trumper threw in against Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights era, Nick Saban and his BLM video with his Crimson Tide, Bonhoeffer and Oscar Romero to boot. Tommy joined Lee Atwater's legacy in his "nigger" memo of 1983 he and his staff can hear in the 25th minute of Du Vernay's documentary 13th about the amendment.
Of course Tubberville is not alone. Dabo Swinney's congressman Jeff Duncan, a founding member of the second Amendment Caucus in Upstate SC is with him and Ainsworth.
Today on NBC this morning spotlighted Lewis and a house delegation against guns after the shooting in Orlando. Lewis understands what Marion Hammer did in Florida with the Stand your Ground law that most likely led to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the unrest that followed this year. He understands what the forces backing Tubberville and Will Ainsworth and his Eagle Forum movement do to the extended families of the people of color who play football in the SEC.
Nick Saban understands. Tubberville does not.
Will the SBC of Alabama do something? How about Richard Shelby and the Honors program and the Legends in Tuscaloosa.
Saban gets it. Calpurnia and Wayne Flynt and Mark Wilson of Jennifer Wilkins Auburn University Democracy Project gets it.
Who else gets it in Alabama. The Vote will tell in November.
I didn't see Tommy Tubberville there either time. I guess he was in Florida or Arkansas.
When Tommy defeated Sessions Tuesday night he grabbed a microphone and said "By God let them Come to Alabama and try and take our guns."
Asa Carter who wrote Wallace's Gauntlet Segregation Now and Forever January 63 speech had Tommy's back on that utterance.
Doing so Tommy the super trumper threw in against Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights era, Nick Saban and his BLM video with his Crimson Tide, Bonhoeffer and Oscar Romero to boot. Tommy joined Lee Atwater's legacy in his "nigger" memo of 1983 he and his staff can hear in the 25th minute of Du Vernay's documentary 13th about the amendment.
Of course Tubberville is not alone. Dabo Swinney's congressman Jeff Duncan, a founding member of the second Amendment Caucus in Upstate SC is with him and Ainsworth.
Today on NBC this morning spotlighted Lewis and a house delegation against guns after the shooting in Orlando. Lewis understands what Marion Hammer did in Florida with the Stand your Ground law that most likely led to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the unrest that followed this year. He understands what the forces backing Tubberville and Will Ainsworth and his Eagle Forum movement do to the extended families of the people of color who play football in the SEC.
Nick Saban understands. Tubberville does not.
Will the SBC of Alabama do something? How about Richard Shelby and the Honors program and the Legends in Tuscaloosa.
Saban gets it. Calpurnia and Wayne Flynt and Mark Wilson of Jennifer Wilkins Auburn University Democracy Project gets it.
Who else gets it in Alabama. The Vote will tell in November.
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