I'll probably get flamed for this, but if I was a GOP pol in Georgia I'd likely ALSO sign on to the petition to replace the statue of Alexander H. Stephens with a statue of John Lewis. I really don't see any downside to it... Stephens was a particularly odious unrepentant white southern RAT slave-owner who said flat out said that the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy was on the principle that blacks were inferior and meant to be enslaved (Neo-confederate history revisionists claiming the Confederacy was all about "states rights" ignore that speech, of course). After the war, he continued to publish books glorifying the "lost cause". While John Lewis was an equally vile Georgia RAT in many ways during his tenure in Congress (loved abortion, etc.), at least he did some ballsy stuff as a young man to end segregation.
Replace a statue of a real scumbag Georgia RAT with a slightly less scumbag Georgia RAT, and get brownie points from the media for it, showing what how "pro civil rights" you are. Sounds good to me.
>> “Rest is power” was trending on shitter. I don’t even know what that means. <<
Simple. He's dead but the legacy he fought for will carry on and inspires others to continue his work. Leftist equivalent of the "Breitbart is here" slogan.
And hey, remember when the lefties swore up and down they'd carry on Paul Wellstone's memory? They sure forgot about that one after they lost the election!
Wasn’t Stephens a Southern Whig?
I also read that he and Lincoln were on good terms.
I feel you, but now is not the time to give “them” something they want, I wouldn’t even change the Confederate bases until we have a commission say we should 6 months from now, on OUR timetable not BLM’s. Lewis was a communist who was like one the first ones to want to impeach Trump (justification to come later) so I don’t care what good he did before, assholes like that don’t get a statue, the media can keep it’s brownies and shove them up Anderson Cooper’s love chute.
I’d replace Confed VP with a statue of Mack Mattingly.
Just realized, this is goddamn Mandela all over again.