As I read an article about John Lewis and all the incredible things he did, I wondered why I had never heard about him before. He was a civil rights leader who walked with Martin Luther King and worked with him, but somehow it took an angry tantrum from an old man on Twitter to inform me about who he is–and that is almost embarrassing.
I asked myself why that was, and then I came to one simple observation:
Everyone focuses on MLK because he’s dead. This is not simply because he’s a martyr, but because a dead man cannot tell you that you are wrong. If John Lewis was held in the same high regard as MLK, if today was John Lewis Day, our future Supreme Leader would not be able to just drop an argument he was having and say “Honor him for being the great man that he is!” Anyone can argue that a dead figurehead would approve of their position on any matter, because they cannot be contradicted.
If we afforded the same amount of attention to John Lewis as we did to Martin Luther King, perhaps even Donald would be afraid to attack him on an internet platform. However, because the two are not even comparable in terms of attention received (well…they weren’t…because someone is currently selling a lot of books…), a man with bad hair and tiny hands can launch into whatever tirades he wants and simply pretend like he’s arguing with another human being.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen observations similar to this on the website in the past, but I feel like this morning’s tweet from the “President-Elect" only confirms it: Martin Luther King can’t tweet back, so Donald can pretend like they would have been friends.
I hadn’t heard of him till I was at the San Diego Comic Con, where he and his entourage held up the escalator for a bit while he spoke–I didn’t get to hear him speak, which is too bad, but he definitely had a fan crowd and was well respected at Comic Con as a mini-celeb!
Okay the fact that a Civil Rights leader can go to a Comic Con and be recognized just makes me unspeakably giddy.
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