Rep John Lewis is dead to me!

No. AJC said no.

I thought he died already?

Apparently the rumor spread six days ago that he had. Seems to legit this time, but he’s close regardless.

[quote] Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights hero, has passed

Didn't he die last year?

[quote] Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights hero, has passed

Died. He died.

R3, You are thinking of Elijah Cummings. They look alike.

^ ur not supposed to say that, dear

Well, there goes MSNBC's weekend.

Apparently real this time

As horrible as it is when anyone dies, he’s couldn’t have timed it better. The documentary “Good Trouble” about his life just came out a week or so ago and got good reviews. This will assure an Oscar nom for sure.

I'm surprised Wikipedia has not been updated yet.

So Andrew Young

Wide spread death rumor and actual death only 6 days apart.

Lake Piru has claimed another?

Brian Williams just announced on MSNBC.

His being alive was the only way I had to tell him apart from Elijah Cummings.

[quote] Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. #goodtrouble

“has passed.” As opposed to “has failed”? Why do people use these stupid euphemisms when someone has DIED?

RIP, Mr. Lewis, and thank you.

Drop Pass R20

He's fine!

He sends his love!

Why couldn’t it have been RBG.

Just watched his bio, Good Trouble” which is streaming on various theater-related sites. Very sad—-saw him at National Airport a year or so ago. A really incredible person of great courage and integrity. The only politician from my time in Atlanta who seemed worth a damn.

He was an ally

RIP to an American hero.

Another coronavirus / AIDS cover up.

Fuck yourself with a rusty pipe, R28.

He is now home with the Lord.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. #goodtrouble -John Lewis

NYT now confirms

Thank you Father God for this great man.

This breaks my heart. I knew nothing about him, until I saw him speak at the DNC when Obama was running. His speech was so powerful and beautiful. I went out and bought ‘Walking with the wind’ soon after. Such a courageous hero.

So sad. He had cancer. He fought hard!

Ruth Bader Ginsberg's cancer is back also. I hope she can fight it until after election.

[quote] Thank you Father God for this great man.

"Father God"?

R31, are you also R19?

Legend. RIP

Dear God, how hard is it to pick a Republican instead, let’s say someone like Mitch McConnell or even a fake Republican like DJT?

Please consider my suggestion the next time you feel like you need another angel in the clouds.

[quote] Legend. RIP

King.

Real this time.

Damn, just when I thought I had the weekend off

[quote]Legend. RIP

John Legend died? Someone alert Larry King's staff!

I'm very sad about the passing of John Lewis. He served with honor. RIP, sir.

[quote] I'm very sad about the passing

Goddamn it!

Why do the good ones go and vile shitstains remain?

Fuck this fucking Goddamned year with a rusty chainsaw then throw it into a grease fire!

I’d bet anyone good money that the Edmund Pettis Bridge will be renamed after John Lewis before the weather turns cold.

R46 2020 does indeed suck. Majorly.

80 is a good age to make it to. You can't expect much more than that.

[quote] You can't expect much more than that.

One should, and one can.

What’s Dump gonna tweet about it tonight?

[quote]80 is a good age to make it to. You can't expect much more than that

Gurl bye

R51, I can literally hear him...

"Sad. So sad. He was a good man, that John."

r50 And one had better.

So he was the third. Naya, Kelly, and John.

I was always a skeptic at the whole "celebrities/public figures die in threes" stuff, but it never fails.

An inspiration and a true leader. RIP, Sir!

Who is Kelly?

A real-life modern saint and hero who changed the world for the better. Go with God to eternal life, John Lewis.

[quote] What’s Dump gonna tweet about it tonight?

Probably that the District he represented was over run with rats and crime.

R57 Kelly Preston

R28, Go fuck off you dusty troll. Fuck off. You are nothing to society. Nothing.

Thank you, R60.

From just over a month ago. An inspiration, and a true leader!

Rest In Power, Sir.

I was angry before, but more angry after seeing R63’s photo. Fuck all of the entitled motherfuckers that have never done anything in their lives, that feel too inconvenienced to wear a mask. FUCK YOU! He got beat to a pulp, and put in jail, just for being black. Bitches these days have no idea what people had to go through, years ago. He also saw the gay rights movement as being aligned with the black rights movement. He was a good man. WEAR YOUR FUCKING MASKS

[quote] He was a good man.

Matt Damon is a good man.

[quote] A real-life modern saint and hero who changed the world for the better. Go with God to eternal life, John Lewis.

Exactly. A friend worked with the crew in Atlanta back in the day when they were very young - John, Julian and Jane Bond included. He always used the term saint when talking about John. Julian was the pretty one born of privilege who got all the publicity and praise and John was just a not-so-pretty humble son of poor share croppers. But in the end it was John's incredible bravery and strength and intellectual honesty that served others in the best way possible. The world is a lesser place with his death.

[quote] This breaks my heart. I knew nothing about him, until I saw him speak at the DNC when Obama was running. His speech was so powerful and beautiful. I went out and bought ‘Walking with the wind’ soon after. Such a courageous hero.

He really was courageous and strong in his faith. Few could have endured what he did without becoming embittered and rageful. He managed to remain committed and convicted but never sacrificed his serernity. RIP.

I hope Trump says nothing because it would be insincere and empty. The racist should keep his fat mouth shut.

All flags should be lowered. John Lewis should get a hero's send-off. Obama will give a eulogy for the weepy. Biden too.

RIP to Mr. John Lewis, he was a real man and a real leader. And a true King to his people and community. And a hero to black Americans and Americans alike. I would go on, but it would be never ending.

[quote] And a true King

King.

I'm learning a lot from this thread.

Thanks all, for the interesting stories and experiences.'

He sounds like a lovely man.

Watch the movie "Selma", r72.

It's based on fact although it's not nearly as brutal as the real story. It's about MLK but Lewis is in it as well.

He was there. He saw some shit. We have lost a giant.

John Lewis and CT Vivian are dead. And RBG’s cancer has returned. Don’t pretend you had a busier day than I did.

Lewis endorsed DL fave Jon Ossoff for the Senate.

The move has already started toward what I mentioned at R47

So sad. I agree with some posters above in that why do all the shitty people keep living? It’s so frustrating to keep losing the good ones.

RIP John Lewis

[quote] I agree with some posters above in that why do all the shitty people keep living? It’s so frustrating to keep losing the good ones.

Have you ever considered that the ones who have passed away, are the lucky ones?

NY Governor Cuomo has some lovely words about John's death.

Lovely words about his DEATH? You might want to reword that.

Of course Trump trashed him when he was alive

RBG's days are numbered.

I loved him in "The Nutty Professor".

Julian Bond and John Lewis made up eventually after their very bitter race for Congress, and both called out MLK III harshly for arranging his mother’s funeral at a congregation led by a homophobic pastor (Bond, Lewis, and Coretta Scott King all steadfastly and publicly supported gay rights). Lewis also publicly condemned Farrakhan for his bigotry, sexism, homophobia, and antisemitism and refused to attend the Million Man March, and waaaay back in the day refused to support SNCC (which he and Bond cofounded) after Stokely Carmichael rose to power and dropped Gandhian nonviolence. (Carmichael, who famously said the only position for women in SNCC was prone.) Lewis even inadvertently pushed MLK Jr. forward in his tactics—King and the other movement figures had been afraid of getting arrested, or doing anything more provocative than boycotts, thinking the stigma around jail would hurt the reputation of the movement, before he saw the student sit-in leaders like Lewis take that risk.

Lewis totally disregarded fear to follow his moral compass where it pointed him. Perhaps the strongest example of that since Harriet Tubman.

Trump is too busy golfing with Lindsey Graham to care

Wow, R84. That's amazing.

How in the heck do you guys know so much about John Lewis??

Like, lots of not very well known details of his life.

[quote]Perhaps the strongest example of that since Harriet Tubman.

Don't know her. Sounds like a fat broad.

R86 Some people actually care about and study history. John Lewis is an American historical figure.

In the Selma days (I have only seen footage), he was so impressive. He was a youngster trying to get a grip on the world and the hand his people had been dealt. You could see in his eyes the courage of his conviction. It was the impervious nature of youth. Unlike most, he kept that fire in his belly.

He was a link to our past and didn't earn his nickname for no reason The conscience of the congress.

And now that term is closer to being an oxymoron.

[quote] You are thinking of Elijah Cummings. They look alike.

Not anymore.

R86 There are a lot of good histories of the movement out there, my favorite being Taylor Branch’s trilogy. It gets into all the tiny details, the infighting, the divides between the different factions, etc. After Julian Bond lost the Congressional primary to Lewis, he spent many years as a college professor teaching classes about those years and I was fortunate enough to take one. He wasn’t scant with praise for Lewis even after the bad blood between them. Lewis was famous for meeting with nearly anyone who called his office and asked to shake his hand. The GOP liked to criticize him as a has-been, and granted, he was not some LBJ-esque powerhouse legislator, but he used the office to try and continue motivating people. He was a generous man, not one of those “living icons” who tries to preserve a mystique.

All the wrong people are dying.

"OK, we're here to discuss the passing of John Legend. First up - Selma Diamond."

Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted a supposed tribute to John Lewis but posted a photo of himself with Elijah Cummings instead!

Idiot.

Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska did the same thing:

It is sad he's gone, but what did his 30 years accomplish?

R98, nice trolling

Please do not take Ava Duvernay's Selma as the gospel. She took great liberties with fact to tell a story that fit her agenda. That was a great movement which involved people from all over and brought people together. It was truly beautiful and inspiring and showed what can happen when people work together rather than trying to tear each other down. Ava never wanted to tell the real story which is why she tried to diminish what Johnson did among other things. Watch the documentaries about it. They are more exciting and truthful than Ava's movie.

She can never be trusted with the truth.

Ava Duvernay is a real talent....ignore the freeper trolls like r100 who trash any celeb they perceive to be "woke"

Pretty much all historical films take liberties with the truth....you must not watch a lot of movies.

[quote]My favorite thing about John Lewis is that at ComicCon, he cosplayed as his younger self, wearing the same coat and backpack he wore at the March on Selma and led kids in a little march around the convention. - Bridget Todd

Photos at link

When the Lord calls us home, we have no choice but to go. At least, now he will be able to talk to MLK again.

The Cato Institute is claiming John Lewis as a libertarian hero.

R101, sorry I forgot to sign my post at R100. So anyone you disagree with is a freeper. LOL!

There is no real talent to Ava. Not in film making and not in historical accuracy. She may be very talented in public relations, I'll grant her that. I wouldn't even call her particularly "woke". She is an opportunist who finally found a way into filmmaking (apart from shilling for studios) and her own fame.

Ava's historical "inaccuracies" are not just liberties, they are wholesale rewriting of history and events which twist historical truths and meaning. In so doing she dishonors that history and its real meaning for a society.

Here are the 5 candidates being considered by the DPG (Democratic Party of Georgia) to replace John Lewis on the November ballot in GA-5:

State Representative Park Cannon

Atlanta City Councilman Andre Dickens

Robert Franklin

State Sen. & DPG Chair Nikema Williams

Georgia NAACP President Rev. James Woodall