john lewis

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,914

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 29, 2025

This is the grave of John Lewis. What to even say about John Lewis? He's such a well known figure and a hero to almost everyone who knows anything about civil rights history or contemporary liberalism. But let's do the bio anyway. We shouldn't forget...

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Remembering Our History

By Erik Loomis

On August 18, 2024

When right-wingers whine about "forgetting our history" when people take down statue of evil Confederates and racists, they are telling on themselves. There's plenty to remember about our history that.

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We Don’t Need Bill Clinton’s History of Civil Rights

By Erik Loomis

On August 3, 2020

Bill Clinton decided to use John Lewis' funeral to take a shot at Stokely Carmichael. The last thing we need is whites to use such opportunities to tell histories of.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Mythology!

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 18, 2020

At least conservatives still hated King for several years before they started pretending that he was one of them. They couldn't even give John Lewis 24 hours. The Cato Institute filed this brief asking the Supreme Court to dismantle much of the Voting Rights Act.https://t.co/oZL3zRyUVx...