Civil Rights Hero (TM) John Lewis who is widely renowned as a civil rights hero because he has the secret civil rights hero decoder ring and secret civil rights hero jet pack, endorsed an anti-Semitic racist who believed that white people would be destroyed by UFOs to head the DNC.
Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia called Rep. Keith Ellison the "right person" to lead the Democratic National Committee in a new video out Tuesday.
In the video, Lewis, a civil rights movement icon, explained why he endorsed Ellison -- a Democratic congressman from Minnesota -- for DNC chair, saying Ellison "has the ability and the capacity to inspire people to stand out, to speak up, to speak out."
What we really need, apparently, is a former member of a racist hate group which believes that white people were created by a mad scientist and that its enemies will be blown up by UFOs.
But who are we to argue with civil rights hero John Lewis. If an icon of the movement thinks that a racist anti-Semite is an acceptable national leader, clearly he must be right. Or a racist.
So there are two possibilities here
1. The Nation of Islam isn't a hate group, Louis Farrakhan isn't a racist and Keith Ellison's past in it isn't disqualifying
2. John Lewis is a racist or at the very least is willing to endorse one