Tariq Nasheed shitting on John Lewis, calls him "buck dancer" "civil rights nigga".
Rep. John Lewis diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer
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John Lewis was the youngest of the "Big Six" leaders as chairman of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, some of the most tumultuous years of the
Civil Rights Movement. During his tenure, SNCC opened
Freedom Schools, launched the Mississippi
Freedom Summer, and organized some of the voter registration efforts during the 1965
Selma voting rights campaign. As the chairman of SNCC, Lewis had written a speech in reaction to the Civil Rights Bill of 1963. He denounced the bill because it didn't protect African Americans against police brutality or provide African Americans with the right to vote.
Lewis graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and then received a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University. As a student, he was very dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. He organized
sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Nashville and took part in many other civil rights activities as part of the
Nashville Student Movement. He was instrumental in organizing student sit-ins, bus
boycotts and
nonviolent protests in the fight for voter and racial equality.
In 1960, Lewis became one of the 13 original
Freedom Riders. There were seven whites and six blacks who were determined to ride from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans in an integrated fashion. At that time, several states of the old Confederacy still enforced laws prohibiting black and white riders from sitting next to each other on public transportation. The Freedom Ride, originated by the
Fellowship of Reconciliation and revived by
James Farmer and CORE, was initiated to pressure the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court decision in
Boynton v. Virginia (1960) that declared segregated interstate bus travel to be unconstitutional. In the South, Lewis and other nonviolent Freedom Riders were beaten by angry mobs, arrested at times and taken to jail. When CORE gave up on the Freedom Ride because of the violence, Lewis and fellow activist
Diane Nash arranged for the Nashville students to take it over and bring it to a successful conclusion.
In 1963, when Chuck McDew stepped down as SNCC chairman, Lewis, one of the founding members of SNCC, was quickly elected to take over. Lewis's experience at that point was already widely respected. His courage and his tenacious adherence to the philosophy of reconciliation and nonviolence made him emerge as a leader. By this time, he had been arrested 24 times in the nonviolent struggle for equal justice. He held the post of chairman until 1966.
In 1963, as chairman of SNCC Lewis was named one of the "Big Six" leaders who were organizing the
March on Washington, the occasion of Dr. King's celebrated "
I Have a Dream" speech, along with
Whitney Young,
A. Philip Randolph,
James Farmer and
Roy Wilkins. Lewis also spoke at the March. Discussing the occasion, historian
Howard Zinn wrote: "At the great Washington March of 1963, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), John Lewis, speaking to the same enormous crowd that heard
Martin Luther King's
I Have a Dream speech, was prepared to ask the right question: 'Which side is the federal government on?' That sentence was eliminated from his speech by organizers of the March to avoid offending the
Kennedy Administration. But Lewis and his fellow SNCC workers had experienced, again and again, the strange passivity of the national government in the face of Southern violence."
[11] At 23 he was the youngest speaker that day and is the last remaining living speaker.
[12]
In 1964, Lewis coordinated SNCC's efforts for "
Mississippi Freedom Summer," a campaign to register black voters across the South. The Freedom Summer was an attempt to expose college students from around the country to the perils of African-American life in the South. Lewis traveled the country encouraging students to spend their summer break trying to help people in Mississippi, the most recalcitrant state in the union, to register and vote. Lewis became nationally known during his prominent role in the
Selma to Montgomery marches when, on March 7, 1965 – a day that would become known as "
Bloody Sunday" – Lewis and fellow activist
Hosea Williams led over 600 marchers across the
Edmund Pettus Bridge in
Selma, Alabama. At the end of the bridge, they were met by
Alabama State Troopers who ordered them to disperse. When the marchers stopped to pray, the police discharged
tear gas and mounted troopers charged the demonstrators, beating them with night sticks. Lewis's skull was fractured, but he escaped across the bridge to
Brown Chapel, the movement's headquarter church in Selma. Before Lewis could be taken to the hospital, he appeared before the television cameras calling on
President Johnson to intervene in Alabama. Lewis bears scars from the incident on his head that are still visible today.
At 21 years old, Lewis was the first of the Freedom Riders to be assaulted while in
Rock Hill, South Carolina. He tried to enter a whites-only waiting room and two white men attacked him, injuring his face and kicking him in the ribs. Nevertheless, only two weeks later Lewis joined a
Freedom Ride that was bound for Jackson. "We were determined not to let any act of violence keep us from our goal. We knew our lives could be threatened, but we had made up our minds not to turn back," Lewis said recently in regard to his perseverance following the act of violence.
[13]
In an interview with
CNN during the 40th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, Lewis recounted the sheer amount of violence he and the 12 other original Freedom Riders endured. In
Anniston, Alabama, the bus was fire-bombed after
Ku Klux Klan members deflated its tires, forcing it to come to a stop. Lewis, however, was not present on that particular day. In
Birmingham, the Riders were mercilessly beaten, and in
Montgomery, an angry mob met the bus, and Lewis was hit in the head with a wooden crate. "It was very violent. I thought I was going to die. I was left lying at the
Greyhound bus station in Montgomery unconscious," said Lewis, remembering the incident.
The original intent of the Freedom Rides was to test the new law that banned segregation in public transportation. It also exposed the passivity of the government regarding violence against citizens of the country who were simply acting in accordance to the law.
[14] The federal government had trusted the notoriously
racist Alabama police to protect the Riders, but did nothing itself, except to have
FBI agents take notes. The
Kennedy Administration then called for a cooling-off period, a moratorium on Freedom Rides.
[11] Lewis had been imprisoned for forty days in the
Mississippi State Penitentiary in
Sunflower County, Mississippi, after participating in a Freedom Riders activity in that state.
[15]
In February 2009, forty-eight years after he had been bloodied by the
Ku Klux Klan during civil rights marches, Lewis received an apology on national television from a white southerner, former Klansman Elwin Wilson.
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From H-1B to illegals, the shit is a clownshow. How they worried about illegal's rights when black citizens treated like shit? How they talk about amnesty from places that have lower murder rates than some of the black communities HERE? What part of the game is that? 
"b-b-b-but right wing!"
