John Lewis Appears On ‘CBS This Morning’ To Talk About Protests Following George Floyd’s Death: “You Cannot Stop The Call Of History”
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deadline.comBy Ted Johnson Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who is fighting pancreatic cancer, gave his first network interview since the protests to the death of George Floyd started across the country. “You cannot stop the call of history,” Lewis told co-anchor Gayle King. “You may use troopers.
You may use fire hoses and water, but it cannot be stopped. There cannot be any turning back. We have come too far and made too much progress to stop now and go back.” The civil rights icon, who was chairman of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee as they staged actions to desegregate the south throughout the 1960s, said that the latest protest movement “feels and looks so different.
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