There’s nothing I can add to the most well-deserved week-long send-off tribute to a national treasure like John Lewis. He was laid to rest in Atlanta yesterday, but the struggle against oppression and racism he fought so valiantly against his whole life rages on. Now it is up to the rest of us to bury that too.
Barack Obama’s Eulogy
“Bull Connor may be gone, but today, we witnessed with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans. George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators. We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in the jar in order to cast a ballot, but even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the Postal Service in the run-up to an election that’s gonna be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick…”