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Longtime Democratic lawmaker: ‘Absolutely no comparison’ between civil rights protesters and Black Lives Matter

By Andrew Mark Miller
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Longtime Democratic lawmaker: ‘Absolutely no comparison’ between civil rights protesters and Black Lives Matter

Longtime Democratic state Rep. John J. DeBerry, Jr. says he’s “appalled” that some are comparing activists from the civil rights movement with Black Lives Matter protesters.

“I’m appalled when folks want to call this stuff that’s happening now and compare it to the civil rights movement when there is absolutely no comparison,” DeBerry, a black politician from Tennessee, told Fox News.

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