Reply #50: Hi ooglymoogly, I generally agree with you also, and it's okay

[sabrina 1]

if we don't agree on this. But if you have been watching the way these events are organized since the beginning, they did have to ask Rep. Lewis to wait as so many others have been asked to do. The reason I have no problem with it is because Rep. Lewis doesn't. He issued this statement through his spokesperson after some people tried to make a big issue of it:

"As a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Congressman Lewis is very familiar with the dynamics of protest, and he respects the right of protesters to choose to follow their own pre-organized agenda. He is not concerned or offended in any way by what happened Friday. In fact, the group's process reminded him very much of SNCC, so he was not disturbed at all by what happened."

They have invited him back and issued an explanation of the process and how it works and how it was not in any way meant to disrespect Rep. Lewis, or any of the many other people who have throughout these weeks, been asked to place their names in the 'stack' when they want to say something. HE was not offended, because when you understand how these GAs work, he understood it completely.

I know he will be attending many of them, all over the country, and I look forward to that and so, I'm sure, do most of the people involved.

Anyhow, that is my take on it, based on HIS take on it. If he had been upset, then so would I but I really did not think he would be, he is far too intelligent a man not to understand the situation. :-)