"...Lewis was never under the illusion that the road ahead would be easy. He had lived to see the 1965 Voting Rights Act — whose passage was spurred by the way Lewis and others were brutally attacked on the Selma-to-Montgomery March — have its guts ripped out by a conservative Supreme Court, giving Southern states license to impose new laws designed to limit African American suffrage.
"So
please, no crocodile tears or soaring words of praise for Lewis from
Republicans whose strategy for winning in November is to keep African
Americans from voting. If you are trying to take away the rights this
great American suffered a fractured skull to win, you don’t really
admire him at all. You spit on his legacy and dishonor yourselves." -- Eugene Robinson, on the dishonorable honoring the memory of Rep. John Lewis.
