Meet John Lewis

[sjoes006]

To say John Lewis is all talk, talk, talk and no action is more than laughable. It's offensively ignorant. Forget that Lewis was recently one of the main congressmen holding a sit in at the house in demand for gun control.

He's one of The Big Six. The Big Six of the Civil Rights Era being MLK, James Farmer, John Lewis, A Philips Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young. These men organized the March on Washington in 1963.

To say John Lewis is all talk, talk, talk is ridiculous. This amazing patriot was one of the first 13 Freedom Riders.

This man organized the Civil Rights march of 1963 knowing that the mere mention of it could get him killed as it ultimately did for his fellow Big Six organizer MLK.

This man is nearly 80 and isn't being given the respect he deserves. HE's THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE BIG SIX.

People we just honored MLK but MLK would want to see John Lewis honored at least once before he dies. Obama couldn't do it because they are both black.

But to let John Lewis go out being made fun of is unthinkable.

He needs to be remembered now not in his death.

It was easy for me to march. I knew my life wasn't on the line. John Lewis woke up everyday during the 60's with his life on the line yet he continued.

[Neverrrmore]

John Lewis is a liar and lately an absolute joke. He has become the very thing he marched against in my opinion. I respect the man for what he did then, because that takes courage and balls. And even now the man ain't scared to stand up for what he believes in, but he's going about it all wrong. Instead of doing something productive he is causing even more division.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

Dis bitch serious 😂😂😂

[Neverrrmore]

@Other_Tommy_Wiseau lol I'm sorry. I get a little carried away sometimes. I think he's a nice man. I met him in a wedding once. Nice guy, very polite, but I cannot support him lately.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

Lol! I don't care that much about this (actually, not much at all), but I really do wanna know how you can justify standing up against segregation and blatant racism to the point of literally bombing cars, attack dogs and hosing people to today about speaking out against a dude who, according to roughly 50% of the population at best (more like 65 considering how many people didn't vote and how many just hate Hillary that much) has perpetuated racist and xenophobic connotations (not saying he is, but definitely pandering to many of that ilk) as being remotely comparable... I don't care to debate this, but I do want to understand that line of thinking cause it always sounds like shit people say and rhetoric people go to without actually understanding what they're saying or thinking. And to be noted, this goes to both sides of politics. I could give less of a shit. I just think people who take such interest in sides that don't have actual power are part of the problem...

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

By giving these idiots power and a voice to be bigger idiots and making everyone else suffer. All this to point out that this isn't a pointed attack at you per se so much as a general gripe I have with people when it comes to politics

[Neverrrmore]

@Other_Tommy_Wiseau are you talking about Trump or John Lewis? If Trump I haven't heard him say anything racist, and as for xenophobia I tend to agree with him on his stance. I don't know much about that religion, but I know many (not all) of them are violent. And we even have muslim family that feels the same and is in full support of him.

As for John Lewis I just feel that he needs to be bridging the gap between people. He's a strong man, he's courageous, he's determined, he's solid in his beliefs and stands for them. That's commendable. But I think today our country needs a man like that to go to our president with his fears, with his concerns and say "hey, this is how we feel, what can we do about this? Let's find some middle ground here". I don't think Trump is too terribly unreasonable. I think he would listen and I think he's eager to hear. Our country needs to come together, our people need to come together. And right now they are the one we are looking to.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

A lil' column a, a lil' column b... it ended up slightly turning into a rant and realized it as I was writing and was way too lazy to fix and edit it to make sense and didn't wanna start over cause I was in too deep at that point that's partially why I included that last part 😬

As for the rest, uh... did you not pay attention to the last year and a half? And I'm saying that as someone who tried to block it all out. Again, not saying he's all those things, but certainly pandered to those groups and at the very least, didn't do anything to remedy those things beyond saying kkk=bad and having 3.2 black friends (all rich and famous dudes)

As per the 2nd part, that has literally existed since Jefferson/Hamilton. Thats bigger institutional issue that and can be another debate entirely. So I agree, but I'm not naive enough to say that that issue will ever go away in the foreseeable future. Again, when you have idiots in power telling idiot citizens to vote for them, you get more idiocy 🙄

[Neverrrmore]

@Other_Tommy_Wiseau lol yeah mine got pretty ranty as well, and ended up choppy. And I'll be honest with you besides a few highlight moments I did not follow until about 6 months before the election. Probably a flaw that I have, I just never do until it gets closer to time to vote, and I heard him say once for people to stop the nonsense, all the racist crap back and forth. That was only once though that I heard it, so maybe you're right. Maybe he should have said more. And I definitely think he needs to be working equally if not harder to bring people together. So maybe he should have said more. I can agree with that. And I agree with you about it not going away in the near future. Going to take time and I don't think it will ever be fully resolved unfortunately.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

The sad part is I actually like politics, or at least the idea of it. I like talking the nuances of politics. But what happens is that you have stupid pundits that pander to idiots and don't say shit, pick arbitrary stuff to bicker about and you have morons like 80% of this site who thinks it's news and interesting. I'm like dan lebatard. He's a sports figurehead who works on espn, but hates how ESPN talks about sports and has a radio show that is basically making fun of how people cover and talk about sports... granted I don't have the accolades, audience or platform to do it, the thoughts still the same 😂. I just don't give a shit about what trump said 26yrs, 5mo, 3wks, 4dys, thirtyleven hrs, umteen minutes and 15.2753 seconds talking about pizza and getting spun to saying he hates women or vice versa

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

Its not gonna change. It's been like this since Adams was president. Hell, how we forget when Obama started, it was literally the republican senate blocking literally everything to the point to the point where both sites literally stopped compromising on literally anything and by 2013, they were the least effective congress ever and the least productive and nearly collapsed the economy again cause they couldn't settle on whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. Do you think that democrats forgot about that shit? Especially considering, regardless of what you or I think about Obama, he was marginally average by historical standards. Not good, not bad. Beyond the bravado of trump, that only holds so far when you have checks and balances. Do you think with the bridges he's burned that democrats would do anything less this go around? All the while, I'm just sitting here in the background watching billionaires act like idiots and millions backing said idiots 😂

[Neverrrmore]

@Other_Tommy_Wiseau lol too funny. I feel ya about that though. That's partly why I don't pay attention until the end. That was an entertaining read though!😜

[Waffles731]

all these idiots claiming he protested democracy, when 3 million more people voted for clinton,
You know who you are

[echoaj]

John Lewis has done a lot of great things in his life.

[Thisperson98]

He did protest democracy, so...