All posts tagged "John Lewis"

Former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Wednesday that Congressional Democrats are planning new legislation to render ineffective Chief Justice John Roberts' decision on Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, the historic 1965 legislation that guaranteed equal access to the vote for all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity. According to The Hill, Pelosi is already considering naming the prospective bill after civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis (D).

Rep. John Lewis (R-GA) was moved to tears on Saturday by an apology from a police chief in Montgomery, Alabama, who said his department utterly failed to protect civil rights marchers as they disembarked from a Grayhound bus into a segregated terminal in 1961.

Why aren't these race-baiters taking Andrew Breitbart's bait???

One of the most annoying habits of conservative pundits is their tendency to take faux umbrage whenever it's suggested that modern day liberals are the ones carrying the legacy of the civil rights movement when they do things like fight poverty (something Martin Luther King Jr. died trying to do) by doing things like expanding health care access. "How dare they!" say conservatives, often implying that they're the real inheritors of the legacy, because free markets and color blindness and shit. That most black voters go for Democrats is explained away by implying they're stupid dupes of Democrats. Suggesting that it's screwed up to dismiss an entire voting bloc as stupid is characterized as the "real" racism.

It was an amazing evening with many old and new friends at Equality Alabama's Gala Saturday night. The highlight was keynote speaker Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who is a native of Troy, Alabama. His played a legendary fearless role in the civil rights struggles of the 60s -- and he is man who believes in LGBT civil equality with equal conviction -- he immediately signed on to DOMA repeal legislation.

John McCain's campaign is demanding that civil rights leader John Lewis take back his statements regarding the, er, shall we say putschesque nature of recent McCain rallies. I really don't see what issue there is with taking a racial minority, making them a catch-all scapegoat for all of society's problems and then whipping a crowd of the angry and disaffected racial majority into a lather about all the injustices he will visit upon them. When's that ever gone wrong?