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Right now, 2 major TV networks (ABC and CBS) are spending a ton of time airing the funeral and casket movement of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). Other networks are spending time talking on their shows about Lewis also. Is this excessive ?
What did Lewis do in his long political career that warrants so much attention ? I'm old enough to remember when ex-PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower died, and I don't remember as much fuss being made, especially on TV. That was a US president, a former Supreme Commander of Allied troops in Europe in World War 2, and a president who enacted one of the top civil rights actions of the past 200 years. Eisenhower declared the Insurrection Act, and sent US troops with fixed bayonets, into Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort and protect black kids from screaming mobs, into a newly integrated high school, directly against the wishes of then Arkansas governor Orville Faubus.
Nothing Lewis ever did in civil rights, or anything else, compares with that. So what DID Lewis do ? Well, he led Democratic sit-in on the House floor to protest congressional inaction on gun control measures. Oh boy! But there WASN'T inaction on gun control measures. The same gun control that Lewis called for, was proposed earlier by 2 Senate Republicans (Grassley & Cornyn), and both were defeated by Democrat votes (because they didn't want Republicans to get the credit for it).
I'll give Lewis credit for his activity in civil rights protest (although I probably engaged in just as many demonstrations against the Vietnam War), but it just appears like Lewis' adulation might have as much political reasons behind it as anything else.
Also, while Lewis was a staunch proponent of equality for decades, and maybe he really believed in what he spoke, at the same time he voted for and supported the biggest racial discrimination and major INequality of the past 56 years, Affirmative Action.
Guess why that guy is rubbing his arm. It's because he just got jabbed with a bayonet, that's why.
What did Lewis do in his long political career that warrants so much attention ? I'm old enough to remember when ex-PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower died, and I don't remember as much fuss being made, especially on TV. That was a US president, a former Supreme Commander of Allied troops in Europe in World War 2, and a president who enacted one of the top civil rights actions of the past 200 years. Eisenhower declared the Insurrection Act, and sent US troops with fixed bayonets, into Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort and protect black kids from screaming mobs, into a newly integrated high school, directly against the wishes of then Arkansas governor Orville Faubus.
Nothing Lewis ever did in civil rights, or anything else, compares with that. So what DID Lewis do ? Well, he led Democratic sit-in on the House floor to protest congressional inaction on gun control measures. Oh boy! But there WASN'T inaction on gun control measures. The same gun control that Lewis called for, was proposed earlier by 2 Senate Republicans (Grassley & Cornyn), and both were defeated by Democrat votes (because they didn't want Republicans to get the credit for it).
I'll give Lewis credit for his activity in civil rights protest (although I probably engaged in just as many demonstrations against the Vietnam War), but it just appears like Lewis' adulation might have as much political reasons behind it as anything else.
Also, while Lewis was a staunch proponent of equality for decades, and maybe he really believed in what he spoke, at the same time he voted for and supported the biggest racial discrimination and major INequality of the past 56 years, Affirmative Action.
Guess why that guy is rubbing his arm. It's because he just got jabbed with a bayonet, that's why.
