thewhyteboar Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 A true hero and icon. Rest in power. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs46.com/news/rumors-of-rep-john-lewis-death-are-false/article_48aaf706-c3af-11ea-828b-cb702549a3c4.amp.html @thewhyteboar He isn't dead..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 Just now, Remarkableriots said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs46.com/news/rumors-of-rep-john-lewis-death-are-false/article_48aaf706-c3af-11ea-828b-cb702549a3c4.amp.html @thewhyteboar He isn't dead..... That article is from a week ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/tv/2020/07/17/amanpour-dawn-porter-john-lewis-good-trouble.cnn Only article I could find today about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/tv/2020/07/17/amanpour-dawn-porter-john-lewis-good-trouble.cnn Only article I could find today about him. https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-john-lewis-has-died-2020-7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 That sucks that he died from pancreatic cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 A loss for all mankind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Rest in power. 80 is pretty damn good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 21 minutes ago, johnny said: Rest in power. 80 is pretty damn good. Definitely a good age to reach I just wouldn't want to die from pancreatic cancer. Just a painful way to pass away which is unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I worked on a project several years back where we interviewed him. Such a wealth of history... he was a young guy when he was hanging with Martin Luther King. We're going to lose more of those legends from that era. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 How quick before Trump pushes some horrible racial policy and assures us that "It's what John would have wanted?". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 8 hours ago, Remarkableriots said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs46.com/news/rumors-of-rep-john-lewis-death-are-false/article_48aaf706-c3af-11ea-828b-cb702549a3c4.amp.html @thewhyteboar He isn't dead..... Man, do I wish you were right. =/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: Man, do I wish you were right. =/ The rock'd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Sad day. Civil rights hero’s are dying along with the civil rights they fought for. My wife is taking this one hard. Last night we went to drive-in theater, followed by take-out and a few drinks, she was in a better mood than I’ve seen her since the pandemic started. This morning is the opposite. She told me as I was pouring my morning coffee. Im quite sad about it too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CayceG Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 To underscore just what an impact Rep. Lewis had on the fight for Civil Rights, several cities in the south, including mine (Nashville), are claiming Rep Lewis as having an outsize role in the struggle in those cities. And all of them are right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Chairslinger said: How quick before Trump pushes some horrible racial policy and assures us that "It's what John would have wanted?". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Good thread just looking at the changes to his speech for the March, I just wanted to point this out because I thought it was interesting RIP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Good thread just looking at the changes to his speech for the March, I just wanted to point this out because I thought it was interesting RIP He would tell that story a lot especially to young people he was mentoring and he would always qualify it by saying that they were right to have him take that paragraph out of his speech. He would use that story to illustrate for all their passion, sometimes the young should lean on the experience of those that came before them. He was very passionate about mentoring the young and passing the torch so to speak. We also lost another civil rights legend yesterday C.T. Vivian. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/ct-vivian-dead.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Fox News left their comments on for their article about this yesterday. It went exactly as you would expect. They seem to be off now... but seriously, they know. You know they know how every comments section is gonna go by observing which articles they choose to have comments on and which they don't. By leaving their hateful, awful, toxic, racist, mysogynist shameful shithole comments section on for most of their articles really tells you everything you need to know about them as an organization. Because you know they know. The article speaks in coded language, dances around what they really want to say and how they really want to say it... and then you scroll down to the comments for the raw unfiltered id of Fox News. What they really mean and what they have no shame in showing you, because regardless of what they know the Fox News comments section is like, for literally everything they post... they choose to continue to let it exist. They are giving their approval. It's disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Remarkableriots Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/downtown-church-bells-ring-95-times-today/C3SPWNQ7EFCCNF4EPV4S3BW56Q/%3foutputType=amp Quote Three metro Atlanta churches will ring their bells 95 times this afternoon to honor the lives of Atlanta civil rights icons John Lewis and C.T. Vivian. Starting at 4 p.m., St. Luke's Episcopal Church, All Saint's Episcopal Church and St. Paul's Episcopal Church will toll their bells 80 times in memory of Lewis, who died Friday at 80. They will toll another 15 times for C.T. Vivian, who was 95. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ort Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Hey, the comments are back on... This is a sampling from the first page of comments... I didn't even have to look hard. This is the first page. I deleted the boring and tasteful ones.... it was about 50% of them. This is the other 50%... With all due respect, if John Lewis did so much for blacks, why are millions of them living in Democrat run cities destroying themselves with their own destruction pathologies? Shouldn't he have encouraged them to get a good education, stay away from drugs, stay out of trouble with the police and to not have children outside of marriage. Now, THAT would have made him a REAL leader in the black community because millions of blacks would be much more successful. Another black person famous for getting beat at a riot. Another loud mouth mouthed , grandcstanding pocket filler Politician gone to his great reward . Haste le Vista The poster boy for term limits. BLM has set back race relations for 70 years, people all over the world no longer sympathize and respect blacks, it will harm blacks, the result will gradually appear in the next 70 years. Lewis was a great civil rights activist, but a terrible politician. RIP Lewis. MLK Jr. was rolling in his grave at the racist you had become, but it is sad you lost the battle to cancer. Democrats keep their "disenfranchised minorities" on a leash with their welfare policies. As long as these “minorities” are kept poor and dependent on their handouts; Democrats can count on their votes. And the final stroke of Democrat genius is to utilize mass liberal media into misdirecting the anger of these impoverished “minorities” towards the “racist” Republicans. Beware of false prophets Democrat-voter. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. (PS. Your socialist Pelosi's net worth is in the hundreds of millions). Look at the violence all around our country... As 3rd Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, I don’t think he did so well. This man or whatever he is makes me want to throw up. He's part of the left sewer. Goodbye to another race baiting dem Good riddance you dumb n I dare liberals like 0bama, 0prah, and Beyonce to put their money where their mouths are and move to a black neighborhood. Theres a reason people like them live in white neighborhoods. Lol! Question: What skills do you possess that qualify you to serve as a U.S house Representative ? Answer: Got skull cracked open by a policeman's baton. Maybe all the 'peaceful rioters' are just auditioning for a job. The man made a living out of race, kind of like Sharpton. So many bigots on the DNC side, particularly within the Black Caucus. It's too bad that this man turned into a partisan hate-monger before his death. May he rest in peace, at last. Helped "his people" stay enslaved to the government, pathetic job John. Looks like another Criminal Black Racist Crack-smoking Democrat Leader is gone. Pour some malt liquor on the ground and call it a day. Hope Crooked Hillary is paying attention. Although she is probably drunk and passed out. But yeah, racism isn't a problem anymore, clearly all these people out in the streets are just race baiting whiners looking for free stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 1 hour ago, ort said: Hey, the comments are back on... This is a sampling from the first page of comments... I didn't even have to look hard. This is the first page. I deleted the boring and tasteful ones.... it was about 50% of them. This is the other 50%... Reveal hidden contents With all due respect, if John Lewis did so much for blacks, why are millions of them living in Democrat run cities destroying themselves with their own destruction pathologies? Shouldn't he have encouraged them to get a good education, stay away from drugs, stay out of trouble with the police and to not have children outside of marriage. Now, THAT would have made him a REAL leader in the black community because millions of blacks would be much more successful. Another black person famous for getting beat at a riot. Another loud mouth mouthed , grandcstanding pocket filler Politician gone to his great reward . Haste le Vista The poster boy for term limits. BLM has set back race relations for 70 years, people all over the world no longer sympathize and respect blacks, it will harm blacks, the result will gradually appear in the next 70 years. Lewis was a great civil rights activist, but a terrible politician. RIP Lewis. MLK Jr. was rolling in his grave at the racist you had become, but it is sad you lost the battle to cancer. Democrats keep their "disenfranchised minorities" on a leash with their welfare policies. As long as these “minorities” are kept poor and dependent on their handouts; Democrats can count on their votes. And the final stroke of Democrat genius is to utilize mass liberal media into misdirecting the anger of these impoverished “minorities” towards the “racist” Republicans. Beware of false prophets Democrat-voter. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. (PS. Your socialist Pelosi's net worth is in the hundreds of millions). Look at the violence all around our country... As 3rd Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, I don’t think he did so well. This man or whatever he is makes me want to throw up. He's part of the left sewer. Goodbye to another race baiting dem Good riddance you dumb n I dare liberals like 0bama, 0prah, and Beyonce to put their money where their mouths are and move to a black neighborhood. Theres a reason people like them live in white neighborhoods. Lol! Question: What skills do you possess that qualify you to serve as a U.S house Representative ? Answer: Got skull cracked open by a policeman's baton. Maybe all the 'peaceful rioters' are just auditioning for a job. The man made a living out of race, kind of like Sharpton. So many bigots on the DNC side, particularly within the Black Caucus. It's too bad that this man turned into a partisan hate-monger before his death. May he rest in peace, at last. Helped "his people" stay enslaved to the government, pathetic job John. Looks like another Criminal Black Racist Crack-smoking Democrat Leader is gone. Pour some malt liquor on the ground and call it a day. Hope Crooked Hillary is paying attention. Although she is probably drunk and passed out. But yeah, racism isn't a problem anymore, clearly all these people out in the streets are just race baiting whiners looking for free stuff... I'm sure at least SOME of those are from real people, but the problem is it's impossible to know how much of it is bots/trolling trying to egg people on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 https://www.axios.com/john-lewis-trump-half-staff-flag-death-72155d0b-2cd5-4a73-badc-0469c15b499f.html Trump waits all day and then orders flags to half mast...for one day instead of the two demanded by protocol. Because of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 6 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: https://www.axios.com/john-lewis-trump-half-staff-flag-death-72155d0b-2cd5-4a73-badc-0469c15b499f.html Trump waits all day and then orders flags to half mast...for one day instead of the two demanded by protocol. Because of course. How long until Trump tells us about how Lewis is looking up from hell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 8 hours ago, Jason said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 4 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: https://www.axios.com/john-lewis-trump-half-staff-flag-death-72155d0b-2cd5-4a73-badc-0469c15b499f.html Trump waits all day and then orders flags to half mast...for one day instead of the two demanded by protocol. Because of course. He originally wanted it 3/5th as long 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 So now that Lewis has passed, who is the greatest living American? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 12 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: My fav: 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 13 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: What does Megyn Kelly have to do with any of this? Stop bringing Gretchen Carlson into a conversation about Ainsley Earhardt.... ...I'm sorry, what worry we talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Why are we looking at a picture of Kellyanne Conway with Meghan McCain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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