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  • Опубліковано 29 лип 2020
  • At the funeral for civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis, longtime friend Xernona Clayton told the story of how Lewis and his late wife, Lillian Miles Lewis, first met. Watch her remarks.

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  • @cocomajoko1
    @cocomajoko1 4 роки тому +17

    What a wonderful story. What a wonderful man. He will be missed! Thank you for paving the way to equality for ALL, and doing it with LOVE 💕

  • @istateyourname4710
    @istateyourname4710 4 роки тому +17

    Proof that your good friend knows what's best for you. They made a cute couple.

  • @teej898
    @teej898 4 роки тому +17

    I want to be this extraordinary woman when I grow up, my God, to have a friend like that ! I lost my sister almost 20 years ago I haven’t found another that could take her place. RIP Mr. Lewis, RIP sis, you are both sorely missed.

  • @TheCarmendoug
    @TheCarmendoug 4 роки тому +44

    You go girl....matchmaker, I want to be like her when I turn 90

    • @sandraatkins2539
      @sandraatkins2539 4 роки тому +1

      Ms. Wendland wasn't t hff at the cutest story. It took some of my sadness away. In fact, I was cracking up. I said ole girl went gangsta in getting that loving couple into holy matrimony.🥰❤🙏🙏🙏

    • @jojot9342
      @jojot9342 4 роки тому

      So true! :)

  • @diankreczmer6595
    @diankreczmer6595 4 роки тому +18

    What a good friend!

  • @flyoutchase
    @flyoutchase 4 роки тому +14

    This was the woman that drove MLK to the airport as he was getting ready to head to Memphis

  • @keyshajohnson588
    @keyshajohnson588 4 роки тому +13

    Dang!! So many ignorant and unnecessary comments. This man is deceased have some respect ✊🏾. R.I.P. Beautiful speech!

  • @ellepaxy5505
    @ellepaxy5505 4 роки тому +5

    They say black never breaks. Look at this lady, 90 years old, sharp as a cookie and looks decades younger!!!

  • @jrseahorse5886
    @jrseahorse5886 4 роки тому +24

    My grand aunt and uncle are named John and Lillian as well, they have been married for more than 50 years now

  • @mcwrightjoanie
    @mcwrightjoanie 4 роки тому +16

    So funny when she said there was another girl interested in John. We didn’t do competition back then. We got rid of her 😅

  • @meredithmericle7487
    @meredithmericle7487 4 роки тому +11

    I am a conservative--have been since '68. I WANT OBAMA BACK1

    • @coolazul-ic9km
      @coolazul-ic9km 4 роки тому

      12 million infect with H1N1 and 70 thousand dead while Obama was golfing. Spare me your ignorance.

    • @watcherenjoyer123
      @watcherenjoyer123 4 роки тому

      @cool azul and you still can’t understand how well he handled Ebola. Remember when Fox went into a freak out?

  • @l.a.connection9759
    @l.a.connection9759 4 роки тому +8

    Love this lady 🥰

  • @redwoodgirlbc
    @redwoodgirlbc 4 роки тому +9

    I adore this woman!!!!!

  • @cynthiacopland8634
    @cynthiacopland8634 4 роки тому +3

    What a blessing to have Christian ✝️ parents, family & friends in our lives. RIP 👑 King & 👑 Queen.

  • @galej3966
    @galej3966 4 роки тому +3

    That was great indeed, thank you!

  • @michaelstraughn6625
    @michaelstraughn6625 4 роки тому +3

    It's a shame when a man has to get his skull cracked just so he and others like him can have the same rights as the person who cracked his skull.
    Thank you, Congressman Lewis.
    R.I.P.

  • @dawnstonerock884
    @dawnstonerock884 4 роки тому +9

    Sweet story

  • @davidgreene1693
    @davidgreene1693 4 роки тому +1

    A FIERCE testimony of Black EXCELLENCE in Xernona Clayton

  • @kimberleebrackley2793
    @kimberleebrackley2793 4 роки тому +3

    Hey, she was still talking. To the life and inspirational actions of John Lewis. I hope to God there are many taking up those reins driving home powerful ideas with peace and definitely some of that good trouble.

  • @elizabethlewis-jw5vu
    @elizabethlewis-jw5vu Рік тому

    We missed you so much thank you keeping s me safe God blessed

  • @aaroncelathian6777
    @aaroncelathian6777 4 роки тому +7

    🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰
    Long Live The Real Ones
    🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰

  • @davidgreene1693
    @davidgreene1693 4 роки тому +1

    A FIERCE testimony of BLACK EXCELLENCE!

  • @gbail9566
    @gbail9566 4 роки тому +1

    Come on, get her name right! Xernona Clayton, put in the title!

  • @spits55
    @spits55 4 роки тому +1

    If you can gather for a funeral you can go out and vote in November, If you can gather for a funeral you can open small businesses, If you can gather to protest you can go to a church. The laws do not apply to everyone equally.

    • @kateakintoye6507
      @kateakintoye6507 4 роки тому

      Go out and do whatever you like, pray you live to tell your story.

    • @spits55
      @spits55 4 роки тому

      @@kateakintoye6507 I wonder if you say that to all the protesters

  • @aquintaancrum4606
    @aquintaancrum4606 4 роки тому

    Mr. John Lewis, Congressman first direct encounter with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr occurred in the summer of 1958, when he traveled to Montgomery to seek Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's help in suing to transfer to Troy State University, an all-white institution closer to his home. Mr. Lewis met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Ralph Abernathy, and Fred Gray at Abernathy's Baptist Church, and they decided that would contribute their financial and legal assistant to Mr. John Lewis. However, Mr. John Lewis joined The Revolution of Martin Luther King Jr a/k/s the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) on May 16, 1962 Mr. Lewis valued Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, as the man who had ultimately set him on his life path. Mr. John Lewis is an American Colored Man who married a Jamaican women from New York, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, is an American Colored Man who married a West Indian women from Cleveland Ohio. Mr. John Lewis and Dr. Martin Luther King children are biracial. I hope their children will respect the intelligence, hard working nature, kindness, and the beauty of American Colored People!

  • @roderickwilson2819
    @roderickwilson2819 4 роки тому

    She was real and authentic
    Love her

  • @crystalsherman8896
    @crystalsherman8896 4 роки тому

    Awesome story

  • @seand67
    @seand67 4 роки тому

    LOve this

  • @judd442009
    @judd442009 4 роки тому +1

    John had all the right moves:
    ua-cam.com/video/4QchDC9FaiI/v-deo.html

  • @jtaj6437
    @jtaj6437 4 роки тому

    😊 such a cute story.

  • @geraldineblackmon7348
    @geraldineblackmon7348 4 роки тому

    "Make a way when there is no way!" #RIPJohnLewis #RestInPeaceJohnLewis
    #Say something!...#Dosomething!"
    #GOVOTE #WeWillVote #GoodTrouble
    ua-cam.com/video/ybxdyztrYJg/v-deo.html #protestsong #innercityblues
    facebook.com/reallaroyanthony

  • @ninobrown5385
    @ninobrown5385 4 роки тому +1

    😁😁😊😊💜💜💜💜

  • @jojot9342
    @jojot9342 4 роки тому

    Amazing

  • @alexl7996
    @alexl7996 4 роки тому +1

    Why this guy got so angry face? Did he hate the world?

    • @kentom8025
      @kentom8025 4 роки тому

      Alex L If you went through what he went through for 80 years you would be angry too

    • @alexl7996
      @alexl7996 4 роки тому

      @@kentom8025 And what that guy went through?!

  • @FirstLast.....
    @FirstLast..... 4 роки тому

    A crook and a scoundrel.

  • @stoneyj1a1
    @stoneyj1a1 4 роки тому +3

    But your family member cannot have funerals. Democrats however can campaign here.

    • @Diane-tq7lw
      @Diane-tq7lw 4 роки тому +4

      Your sick, many people have had funerals and weddings.

    • @darksharxz
      @darksharxz 4 роки тому

      We gave our cousin a funeral. This is what’s wrong with people. Smfh

    • @spits55
      @spits55 4 роки тому

      @@Diane-tq7lw WRONG! my niece is a wedding planner and does hair and make up, they have been ordered to remain closed until further notice.

    • @spits55
      @spits55 4 роки тому

      @@Karen-uv7tn Then how come they do not limit these high profile funerals, I though we were all equals..lol see how this works now.

  • @brianminkc
    @brianminkc 4 роки тому +2

    He always looked like he had a bad case of hemmoriods. He made millions while his district lived in squalor

    • @Diane-tq7lw
      @Diane-tq7lw 4 роки тому +3

      That's a lie, why do white people have a problem with a black person having money? As many white Republicans that are millionaires you worry about black people all the time. Get a life and maybe you will make over minimum wage.

    • @kateakintoye6507
      @kateakintoye6507 4 роки тому +1

      You can't hide your hatred for someone even at death? So sad that people like you still exist 💔💔😢😥😢

    • @lillypatrick8481
      @lillypatrick8481 4 роки тому

      Ivanka and Jared just made 38 million in one year while working for the Trump in the white house, do you have a problem with that?

  • @ChildofGod98765
    @ChildofGod98765 4 роки тому +1

    Who cares