I watch and comment on the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble
Recorded February 19, 2021
Notes:
-Real life superhero
-I will comment during the doc but this podcast won’t be the length of the doc
-What he’s been through
-That mugshot — https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/622844317162434560?lang=en
-Pre-COVID
-Elijah Cummings
-Organize, mobilize, legislate
-Being brutalized by cops for waiting on line to vote
-Knowing the risk
-The power of voting
-Pettus bridge and unlawful assembly
-Parading permit
-Troopers advancing with weapons
-Civil disobedience
-Bashed in the head
-Present day voter suppression
-Constant struggle
-“There’s so much more progress to be made”
-“My greatest fear…”
-Misinformation, hatred, and cruelty
-Comic Con story
-Equity
-Getting involved
-Ripple effects
-Good trouble
-Say something, do something, good trouble, necessary trouble
-2018 and the blue wave
-Change from then to now (so much more to do)
-Preaching to chickens
-Picking cotton
-Nashville and non-violence
-Non-violence as offense, not defense
-Starting locally to desegregate downtown Nashville
-Systems versus an individual
-Under a constant threat
-Training
-One big temper tantrum from people in power
-Fear and insecurity
-First Nashville sit-in
-Optics
-Doing everything you can
-AOC
-How racism morphs
-Barriers
-Voting requirements
-Senator Warnock
-Beto O’Rourke
-Election Day 2018 and 2020
-James Clyburn
-John Lewis Voting Rights Act
-Republicans want to suppress votes
-AOC and the speed of freedom
-Moving slow versus moving fast
-Results of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act
-Long wait times to vote
-HR1
-Opressors framing themselves as victims
-Freedom Singers
-How music lifts the spirit
-Thurogood Marshall
-John F. Kennedy and intentions
-We cannot be patient
-Democrats vs. Republicans
-Fast vs. Slow
-Wife and son
-Lawlessness and hypocrisy of the “law and order” Trump administration
-Viral videos
-Julian Bond and the danger of registering people to vote
-Rise into politics
-Becoming an “insider”
-Tense moments with Bonds
-Activism from the outside and inside
-Protest on the floor and the non-coverage of Fox “News”
-Stacey Abrams and the power of Lewis’ story
-The resistance to the right to vote
-The more who show up…
-President Obama
-Looking back 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
-Paul Wyrech - he’s not from AIPAC, he’s from ALEC and he didn’t want everybody to vote
-Removing the filibuster
-This is not a time for despair
-The struggle
-2019 Edmund Pettis Bridge (Trump wasn’t there)
-Putting in the work
-Medal of Freedom
-A good start
-A giant
-There were post credits
-Inspiring
-Equity and progress (and justice)
-Plugs!
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