Civil Rights Icon John Lewis died tonight at 80 years old

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LouderVol said:
Interesting you bring up that seat. Anyone ever read into the happenstance of Lewis getting it?

A lot of dirty deeds donedort cheep with the Big 6. And what's funny he won initially with support of white voters, not the black.
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None of the hero worshippers care enough to look this up?

Might start with him working with the white owned newspapers here in Atlanta.
 
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John Lewis's funeral service is held today at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Many are speaking, including three former Presidents. President George Walker Bush's comments were brief but poignant. President Clinton rambled a bit as he is wont to do. President Obama gave the eulogy.

John Lewis was a man with faults and foibles, strengths and virtues just like the rest of us. His dedication to justice, to fulfilling the promise of our nation, to making a more perfect union is admirable, no matter your socio-political point of view. Knowing his death was inevitable, John left some final words for us all. This link is to their publication in the New York Times.

I've heard and read the words of those who belittle and despise John Lewis. If you are among them, you've some soul searching to do.
 
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John 8.
[1] Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
[2] And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
[3] And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
[4] They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
[5] Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
[6] This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
[7] So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
[8] And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
[9] And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
[10] When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
[11] She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
 
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Tin Man said:
John Lewis's funeral service is held today at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Many are speaking, including three former Presidents. President George Walker Bush's comments were brief but poignant. President Clinton rambled a bit as he is wont to do. President Obama gave the eulogy.

John Lewis was a man with faults and foibles, strengths and virtues just like the rest of us. His dedication to justice, to fulfilling the promise of our nation, to making a more perfect union is admirable, no matter your socio-political point of view. Knowing his death was inevitable, John left some final words for us all. This link is to their publication in the New York Times.

I've heard and read the words of those who belittle and despise John Lewis. If you are among them, you've some soul searching to do.
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No thanks. My thoughts today are with a true American patriot, Herman Cain.
 
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TNVOLNAVY said:
No thanks. My thoughts today are with a true American patriot, Herman Cain.
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"He was a war hero because he was captured," Trump said at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa.
"I like people who weren't captured,"

I like my patriots to not succumb to covid-19 for stupid political optics
 
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JMO, but the true legacy of John Lewis was his fight for civil rights and what he endured. That is what should have been honored. That is something I think the majority of the nation could unite over. Politics should have been left out of it. I feel some, especially Obama, turned this into a Democrat propaganda event. Not a fan of that. Not a fan of either side turning death into political hay. But more than that, I'm not a fan of some tearing a dead man down, which I've seen on this board. It's pointless, and it's crass. As I've said before, put aside his politics. We're not all going to agree on politics. But you cannot deny what Lewis did, and what he suffered, in the fight just to be treated decently, as a human being. For that, he is an American hero. If your narrow blinders do not allow you to see that, I question your sensibility.
 
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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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Yes, but TRUMP..


Had to be done Sorry, RIP
 
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newarkvol said:
"He was a war hero because he was captured," Trump said at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa.
"I like people who weren't captured,"

I like my patriots to not succumb to covid-19 for stupid political optics
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Fair enough , I like when your politicians don’t use a funeral as a political platform to spew their ideology. It’s seems a bit disrespectful.. But that’s just me .
 
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newarkvol said:
"He was a war hero because he was captured," Trump said at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa.
"I like people who weren't captured,"

I like my patriots to not succumb to covid-19 for stupid political optics
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Does it make you feel better sinking to their level? What I said about Lewis applies to Herman Cain as well. No point in tearing down a dead man.
 
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GAVol said:
I wish we could all just take the occasion of someone’s death to press pause on the politics. It’s a terrible look.
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Not going to happen now or at any point going forward. We live in the age of the sound bite and cannot hide from the thousand or so stream of sound bites prying their way into our lives with all of various media platforms available today.
 
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GAVol said:
I wish we could all just take the occasion of someone’s death to press pause on the politics. It’s a terrible look.
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yes, over 150k dead and the politics keep going and going and going?
 
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