Civil Rights Icon John Lewis died tonight at 80 years old

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Rasputin_Vol said:
I don't think I will be able to wait that long.
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It’s perfectly fine to point out the later year politics you don’t agree with while acknowledging the overall life’s work.

John Lewis faced REAL racism and mortal threats head on and was an agent for change. That should be acknowledged and is definitely worthy of respect.

Last couple of decades? Not so much!
 
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Met him a couple of a times and he was a gentleman. I greatly admire his efforts and courage of the civil rights movement.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
It’s perfectly fine to point out the later year politics you don’t agree with while acknowledging the overall life’s work.

John Lewis faced REAL racism and mortal threats head on and was an agent for change. That should be acknowledged and is definitely worthy of respect.

Last couple of decades? Not so much!
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And people didn't think it was real racism then, either.
 
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n_huffhines said:
And people didn't think it was real racism then, either.
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He has been hated and vilified his entire life.
There are few alive today pathetic enough to say that what Lewis did in the 60's and 70's was not correct and admirable.
But there sure were millions during the 60's and 70's that said it. Those millions either died, progressed, or are properly shamed into silence.
That's the way it always works.
Forty years from now will be no different in it's views of the 2000's and 2010's.
That's the way it always works.
Lewis lived his entire life on the correct side of history.
 
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AirVol said:
A civil rights icon that joined a party that segregated him and others.
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I trust he was wise enough to know which party best represented his ideals and provided the best means to reaching his desired objectives. For those needing the 40 year filter for perspective, it may seem otherwise.
 
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happy-go_vol said:
He was a racist, a bigot, a socialist all in the name of civil rights.
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Can you cite even one racist comment that he expressed, or perhaps a bigoted action that he took? It's easy to call people names, but can you provide any evidence?

John Lewis had courage. Today's black youth think they have it tough. John Lewis is one of the reasons why they don't. Lewis was beaten by police just because he wanted to sit down and eat in the same restaurant where white people were eating. Lewis stood up for himself and others when it needed to be done. This was often at great risk to his own life.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Can you cite even one racist comment that he expressed, or perhaps a bigoted action that he took? It's easy to call people names, but can you provide any evidence?

John Lewis had courage. Today's black youth think they have it tough. John Lewis is one of the reasons why they don't. Lewis was beaten by police just because he wanted to sit down and eat in the same restaurant where white people were eating. Lewis stood up for himself and others when it needed to be done. This was often at great risk to his own life.
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Be careful or ktown will call you a racist for saying his life isn’t hard.
 
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headhunter15 said:


In a time of such division in our country, both sides of the political spectrum should watch this and be reminded we are all created in God’s image and are brothers and sisters in the greatest country in the history of the world, whether they like it or not.
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And he was just trying to make it better.
 
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luthervol said:
You're welcome.
All I can do is speak it; it's up to the individual to process it.
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It's funny how so many old, southern white people think of blacks as being "racists" for simply not allowing themselves to be excluded from society. It's the old "That colored boy should know his place and stay there," mentality. It's a resentment that is pervasive in this forum. @happy-go_vol will never cite any examples of Lewis being a racist or a bigot.
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
"Oh FFS stop. We've come a looooong way since the mid 1800's."

-some other old white dude in the 60's.
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Actually I’d challenge that statement Dink. The change between the late 1800’s and 1960 vs 1960 and today isn’t even comparable as far as I’m concerned. Well unless you want to point out that there wasn’t much movement in the first time interval.
 
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AirVol said:
A civil rights icon that joined a party that segregated him and others.
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Both parties did that. There wasn't a good choice for him when he entered politics. He could join the party of Robert Byrd or he could join the party of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms. He joined the party which had passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I wonder what kind of tricks they will pull between now and November to keep Angela Stanton from winning that seat? They DO NOT want a Trump supporting black woman to win that seat...
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LOL! Yeah, the Democrats are really going to need to pull some "tricks" to win the 5th District of Georgia. It is the most consistently Democratic district in the nation. Since it's formalization in 1845, the district has been represented by a Democrat for all but the 9 years that the seat was vacant due to Georgia seceding from the Union.
 
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