Posted on 07/17/2020 9:13:11 PM PDT by bitt
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the renowned civil rights leader who served as a symbol of the movement throughout his more than three decades in Congress, died Friday at the age of 80.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on Bloody Sunday, Lewis decisively carved a place for himself in the history books as a courageous young activist during the height of the civil rights movement.
He was elected to Congress in 1986 and served 17 terms representing an Atlanta-area district. While in Congress, Lewis served as a physical reminder of how far the country had come on civil rights and how much more was left to be done.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), of which Lewis was one of its most senior members, mourned that the world has lost a legend.
The Congressional Black Caucus is known as the Conscience of the Congress. John Lewis was known as the conscience of our caucus, the CBC said in a statement. Lewis, the youngest keynote speaker at the March on Washington in 1963, was the only person who delivered remarks at the event to witness Barack Obama winning election as the nations first African American president 45 years later.
When Lewis asked Obama to sign a commemorative photograph at his 2009 inauguration, the newly sworn-in president wrote: Because of you, John.
Lewis was born on Feb. 21, 1940 to a family of sharecroppers on a farm outside of Troy, Ala., and attended segregated public schools. Inspired by the activism demonstrated by Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis began his work of what he liked to call good trouble.
Lewis started his civil rights activism by organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville,
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Other than the size of their heads what’s the difference?
Other than the size of their heads what’s the difference?
little difference
He was 80.
So is Fauci. Maybe there’s hope.
This racist fraud claimed that Tea Party people called him a n’ger. LIAR caught by audio!
I watched the Fox News obituary live this morning, at 9:00 Am EDT. The thing that struck me was the repeated use of the words to the effect that Lewis did not hate his enemies. If he did not hate Bush and Trump, did he love them? Or did he just love the men who cracked his skull in 1965?
Which is the evil twin?
Elijah Cummings died a few months ago.
Dummies would definitely do a lot less damage.
The problem with legislators is not that they don’t work hard enough, but that they work too hard!
Do we really need more laws?
Every new law is at its core a restriction of some freedom. I would be quite happy to pay them their full salary and have them work only one month out of the year.
I think we should make it much more difficult to pass new laws, and easy to repeal old ones.
Probably. And it’ll be another cheap grifter race pimp.
Can’t have a hole in the agenda now, can we....
I actually saw Bond speak, in Grand Rapids (at the community college, a predictably lib speaker series), prior to that election. He professed a love of the Mills Brothers (not kidding) and during the Q&A he said, in reference to some brain-dead racist question about "the system", doesn't matter if the game is crooked, it's the only game in town. That's actually good advice, and beats the hell out of burning **** down. Lewis was just an opportunistic liar.
To embrace a party that embraced the KKK in its hey day, was not on the side of civil rights legislation in the 60s yet strutted like he was as tall as MLK, ‘tis a shame.
He and many others that have “led” the battle(s) to secure freedoms and liberties already provided for says a lot about him and his followers.
Time , money , lives.. by the hoods’ful have been wasted under leadership like his and his party.
Sadly, the up and comers of the party seek total destruction of society to reform it to their taste, and sadly, he would probably support that too.
That wasn’t Lewis, nor Donald Payne as erroneously cited in the article. It was idiot extraordinaire Rep. Major Owens who made that infamous speech. He was the father of actor Geoffrey Owens, the clueless son-in-law of Heathcliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” (married to eldest daughter Sondra).
Until he wasn’t. Which curiously coincided with his election to office.
Not this seat, unfortunately. It once was briefly sane in the ‘60s when it elected Fletcher Thompson, a Conservative Republican. When Thompson retired in 1972 to run for the open Senate seat against Sam Nunn (and he should’ve won), it then elected the first of three rotten leftists, beginning with Andrew Young.
I think Lewis hated Bond because he was “too White.” Their voting records were both horrific and indistinguishable from the other (Communist/racist). Bond was more of a show horse and publicity hound.
Pretty rich, ain't it ?
Bond stood in his way. That's the ultimate reason in any criminal gang.
Same mindset.
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