Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

It's this. It's the hypocrisy. The truth is that we're not all in this together. Not right now. If ever there were a time for an exception, perhaps this would be it. But consider how costly this is. Think about what this leaves to fossilize in the hearts of the grieving.https://twitter.com/brinkofill/status/1288977843133784066 …

If it was my dad, I would be upset too, but I think John Lewis is an exception. I think. I don't know. It's a tough call. Sometimes breaking the rules makes sense, sometimes not. Sigh. Now I'm not sure anymore. It did occur to me it would have been better if it were outside.

There is a strong argument that John Lewis meant so much to people that it is morally justified to accept risk to honor his memory. But does someone less famous’s father or mother mean any less to them, that we should threaten to arrest them for electing the same risk?

Yes. It's hard to think of a more justifiable exception. But the message is still: your wonderful father meant everything to his family, but that life was too small.

I’d like someone to explain why John Lewis chose to become part of the political party responsible for slavery & segregation for thirty years & all he had to show for it was a party that today focuses on the color of your skin as everything that matters. Who changed who?

That’s a flattening of history. The Democratic Party of 1860 / 1950 / 1965 are different entities. It evolved, just like the Republican Party. And to say all Democrats today care about is skin color is simply wrong. The world is more complex than just good guys vs bad guys.