Posted on 09/21/2017 6:49:36 PM PDT by Zakeet
Democratic Rep. John Lewis said Thursday he sometimes feels like "taking a bullwhip" to people in order to make them care about civil rights.
"It doesn’t matter whether they're black, or white, Latino, Asian-American or Native American. When you see something that’s not right, not fair, not just, you have an obligation to do something, to say something. They’re just too darn quiet. I really wanna use some other words sometimes," Lewis told the audience of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Town Hall on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C.
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Bullwhip, huh? Okay, but remember...
We shoot back.
And what is his contingency "Plan B" if someone bigger and badder, or more heavily weaponized takes a whip to him in disagreement on "what to care for?"?
Actually looking like a 900-pound gorilla may have worked in 30,000 b.c, but it is no longer true today.
I don't suppose that John Hobbes and Thomas Locke are his favorite social philosophers...either.
Perhaps I could profit from his recommendations to civilized behavior from classic philosophers recommendations from the mythical libraries of the Great African culture of Timbuktu?
“Bullwinkle” is a Tourette’s trigger for me.
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