History is Cool:"Make Some Good Trouble"

While so many today view what John Lewis did with reverence, at the time, only 22% of Americans approved of what the Freedom Riders were doing. https://t.co/yY2VmDHmq3 pic.twitter.com/KGH9Nn2hra

— Elahe Izadi (@ElaheIzadi) July 18, 2020

At the 1963 March on Washington, civil rights leaders asked John Lewis to tone his speech down https://t.co/Nkd3J6tz56

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 18, 2020

“The recent Irish revolt may have been foolish, but would to God some of us had sense enough to be fools.”
-- WEB DuBois on the Easter Rising, 1916 https://t.co/nGiEUCcCCm

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 18, 2020

Adventures of a Black Football Player, 1905. Sammy Ransom was a fabulous all-around athlete who won a Purple Heart in WWI. This is from the @chicagotribune. pic.twitter.com/JHpL2Lvp0K

— Dan Daly (@dandalyonsports) July 18, 2020

(Anybody else hear Trump talking about the "suburbs"?  Just me?  Okay....)

OK. Everything you did in your previous lives to help put right wing judges into the federal court, up to and including John Roberts, is in need of atonement. https://t.co/6aeVGoeKxW

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 18, 2020

Still no words yet from Trump, but VP Pence has just issued a statement about John Lewis, a former House colleague and friend: “Congressman John Lewis was a great man whose courage and decades of public service changed America forever, and he will be deeply missed.”

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 18, 2020

Well, finally he did:

No, you’re not, and neither is whoever wrote this for you. https://t.co/PgrTCcgciv

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 18, 2020

Whoever wrote it is illiterate as well as stupid. One doesn't offer thoughts and prayers to "he," and certainly not to the deceased, who is rather beyond your concerns at this point. Unbelieveable.