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John Lewis represents in Atlanta what has continued the race issues for the past 40 years. (don’t get me started on the “all black” colleges though, you’d get threatened for just walking in the vicinity back in the 80’s. I think it’s gotten better now though) They will never EVER let it go because it is their power to whip up fear in blacks.

When I was 16 years old, I had a job in downtown Atlanta. Now in Atlanta there are very few parking places by the sidewalk and every lane right up to the sidewalk is a ‘lane’ meant for traffic. There was someone challenging the current mayor and one of the thousands of local “Reverends” decided to park his car right in front of campaign headquarters. Unfortunately, since he didn’t have flashers or anything on, I thought he was driving in the lane when coming around the corner and then once I realized that the car was PARKED, couldn’t get over because of another vehicle. Therefore I slammed into the backend of his car.

The police came and gave him a ticket for impeading traffic and he was howling the whole time. Also started yelling how it was automatically my fault since I hit him in the rear.

So court day came and this “Reverend” was in court with his ticket (I got called as witness by the officer because he-Rev.- was pleading not guilty for the ticket) and eventually went into how it was a racist conspiracy since the cop was white and I was white and he was black.

Luckily the black judge, with a northern accent (LOL), rolled his eyes and said very firmly “YOU PARKED YOUR CAR IN A LANE OF TRAFFIC! Meant for MOVING VEHICLES! Skin color has nothing to do with making a dumb decision on YOUR PART!”

Being only 16, I was terrified of the whole ordeal, but I found my voice in it.

Sorry for going off on a story there, but it was my first experience with A) Being called a racist and B) Seeing those good “fighters” as they had been portrayed on my Atlanta news all my life for what they truly were.