John Lewis: Good Trouble Review

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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