John Lewis, in the words of Charlie Pierce:

[volstork]

JOHN LEWIS IS STILL ALIVE

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30360401/john-lewis-diagnosed-pancreatic-cancer/

Let none of us write his epitaph, now or whenever. Let’s not make a marble idol to our own consciences out of him. He is a beloved figure now, but he wasn’t a beloved figure to the people who tried to beat him to death. He is reckoned to be a figure of conciliation now, but he’s also still the young man whose proposed speech at the March on Washington was so fierce that the organizers took him aside—“in a room under Lincoln’s backside,” he always jokes—and told him to tone it down. He is a man who speaks often about “the beloved community,” but also someone who has demonstrated by his actions that he knows that the beloved community exists in a place that has to be seized and held, that it is not anyone’s easy birthright. His demands are still unmet, his sacrifices still unexpiated. John Lewis is still alive, dammit, and that should be enough for now.

[dhill926]

1. K & R...

[bdamomma]

2. K&R

nt

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[tblue37]

4. Big K&R. nt

[albacore]

5. A wounded lion is STILL a lion....nt

[Hekate]

6. AMEN Charlie Pierce