
(CNSNews.com) – In an interview with Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Black Panther Mason Weaver said Monday that Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who was brutally beaten during a march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, was demonstrating against Democrats at the time, then he later “joined the oppressors” in “presiding over the destruction of the black community.”
“Mr. Lewis, you have presided over the destruction of black America, and you owe us an apology, and matter of fact, … he’s more concerned about Trump being the illegitimate president. Well, John Lewis is the illegitimate congressman,” Weaver said.
“In the early 70s and late 60s, we were demonstrating and protesting for the right to compete as adult citizens in America. We were not demonstrating to be taken care of,” said Weaver.
Weaver said the black community was protesting the policies of Democrats, citing then Democrat Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Bull Connor, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission.
“Now Congressman Lewis, he marched across the Pettus Bridge, and they beat him and ran over him, but those were Democrats. It was Democrat George Wallace [who] stood at the schoolhouse yard. It was Democrats’ Bull Connor that oppressed folks. It was Democrats that voted for the litmus test called a literacy test and a poll tax. He was fighting Democrats, but after they beat his behind on that bridge and ran over him and stomped him in the ground, he got up and turned and joined them,” Weaver said.
Weaver said Lewis “joined the oppressors and became a stool to them where he was now sitting and presiding over the destruction of the black community, the destruction of the black men, the destruction of the black woman with drugs and gangs.”
Weaver also said that Lewis “has presided over the worst school system in the world.”
“I’m outraged that the demonstration that he had earlier in his life has turned into a subjugation of his rights and authority at the black leader,” Weaver said of Lewis.
“So when you say he has presided over, are you speaking of his congressional district?” Carlson asked.
“Not just his congressional district, but the Congressional communist Black Caucus that has every district they own and control is a ghetto hell hole. It’s a place that no one wants to go to. They’re in control of every inner city school system, every inner city police, every inner city jail,” Weaver said.
“They have produced nothing but drugs and misery. Black-owned businesses, black-owned housing has been produced. They have presided over the destruction of black people. They should be ashamed of themselves, and I don’t understand why any black person could be a Democrat,” he said.
“So you believe that John Lewis when he gets up and says anything is already discredited because of what he’s failed to do since the Civil Rights era?” Carlson asked.
“He has done nothing. If John Lewis – bless his heart—you know it took courage to do what he did in his early life, but he has done now, he has turned himself to his enemy like a little girl being beaten by daddy and joins daddy, like an abused woman beaten by her husband, she joins the husband. He has joined the enemy,” said Weaver.
“He has joined the oppressor, and what he should do—if you’re a real man, John Lewis, if you’re a real, real hero, you stand up tomorrow morning and you look at the American people, and you apologize. You have led them through decades of hell. You should apologize, say you made a mistake, say that you tried to work with them, but the Democratic Party has always been the party of abuse, always been the party of the Klan, the party that went to war to keep slaves, the party that’s always been the destruction of black people,” Weaver added.
“Mr. Lewis, you have presided over the destruction of black America, and you owe us an apology, and matter of fact, … he’s more concerned about Trump being the illegitimate president. Well, John Lewis is the illegitimate congressman,” he said.
“You don’t believe that John Lewis is doing this on purpose or the other members of the Congressional Black Caucus are doing this on purpose, do you?” Tucker asked.
Weaver said all he’s seen is that Lewis has gotten richer, and his people have gotten poorer, and the same goes for the Congressional Black Caucus.
“The Black Caucus has gotten more power and influence, and the black people they’re presiding over has gotten poorer – more drugs, more gangs, less business, less homeownership, less education, more jail, more drugs. Now if you did that in your job, you’d be fired. If you did that in any place else, you’d be fired,” Weaver said.
“The worst black people are, the poorer we are, the stronger the Congressional Black Caucus is. The more powerful Democrats are - the worse off black people are. So I’m just saying as a citizen in America, looking around my country, I’m saying that every place you find black people and Democrats, you find poverty. Now, I’m waiting for someone to say where I’m wrong. You find disgrace,” Weaver said.
“You find no jobs. You find a place that is utterly unlivable. That’s his legacy,” Weaver said about Lewis.