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(February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020)

A lifetime civil rights activist, he was the last surviving member of the “Big Six,” leaders and organizers for the March on Washington, alongside Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young.

He was a Congressman, representing Georgia’s 5th Congressional District since 1987.  He was running for re-election this year in a majority black, majority Democratic district, with ceremonial opposition.  He was expected to re-win his seat in another landslide, but now it’s totally up in the air.

The primaries are over, the Democrats can’t nominate someone else.  The Republicans chose the WORST possible candidate; Angela Stanton-King is an ultraconservative black woman who was jailed for conspiracy for her involvement in a car theft ring.  She served two years, and was pardoned by Donald Trump.  She became a right-wing celebrity author, being sued for writing unflattering biographies of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, thinks gay people are pedophiles, and supports QANON whatever the fuck that is.  She was expected to lose heartily, but now she’s all but guaranteed the win.

I don’t know Georgia state laws; some states allow you to run posthumously, so Lewis’ name would remain on the ballot, and if he were elected the seat would be left vacant.  If they disqualify dead candidates, then the Democrats would need to run a write-in candidate and put all of their effort into this fledgling campaign.  But because it’s Georgia, a conservative state with an ultraconservative governor, what’s gonna happen is they’re just gonna call the race for Stanton King.  They’re gonna say that she is running unopposed, so she wins by default, disallowing the write-in candidates.

Suddenly, a Safe-D district will flip R, which would be a major victory for Trump and his goons because she the only prominent black woman who supports him.  She’s their token black friend, they’ll parade her around and shoot down every BLM argument by turning to her and having her say that “All Lives Matter, cops are just doing their jobs, if you don’t break the law then you have nothing to fear, the system is just and all Americans are treated equally under the law.“  She’s their golden goose, she’s their “Get Out of Jail Free Card,” they can o and say whatever they want, assured that they have the support of a black woman (she’s the exception, not the rule; black woman vote 99% Democratic).  They will use her to crush any opposing voices by having her just say “that’s not true, never happened to me, I’ve never been pulled over for no reason, I’ve never been molested by a boss, I’ve had nothing but positive experiences, so therefore your negative ones must be your own fault.”  She’s their propaganda machine.  She’s their literal race card, which they can play whenever they want.

This District was safely Democratic, and it will become yet another Republican stronghold by 2022.  Georgia is a dumpster fire.  Not quite Florida levels, but they’re pretty high up the list of worst state in the union.  Kemp is actively trying to kill people by making it illegal to mandate masks in public (he wants people to VOLUNTARILY wear masks, saying the government shouldn’t force them, which is bullshit).  I’m telling you, we’re THIS close to masks being outlawed entirely.  Like the cops will start saying “masks make it hard for our facial recognition, people are getting away with more crimes, we need the make wearing a mask illegal,” and then poof, everyone is susceptible to the virus because Republicans Love Cops.

Vintage Comic - Martin Luther King And The Montgomery Story

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