John Conyers Is Not an Icon, He Was a Congressman

John Conyers left Congress in disgrace in Dec. 2017, utterly
self-absorbed and convinced of his moral superiority

What is it that possesses some people after assuming an office?

Rep. John Conyers, Jr., (D-Michigan), resigned this week, facing multiple sexual harassment complaints coming out of his office fiefdom built over decades.

Icon, legend? Conyers is accused of the same offenses leading Clarence Thomas to be branded a monster.

No, Conyers is not an icon. He's a civil rights worker along with 10,000,000s of Americans whose names will not grace the history books. Any grounded, reflective man would know this.

Not Conyers.

Listening to Conyers' statement on the Mildred Gaddis Show, (WPZR-FM, Detroit), (via cable news), is to listen to a self-absorbed, pathetically deluded man so convinced of his own righteousness that it's not surprising any empathy with his victims is absent.

Said Conyers on the Gaddis show:

My legacy can’t be compromised or diminished in any way by what we’re going through now. This too shall pass. ... My legacy will continue through my children. I am retiring today and I want everyone to know how much I appreciate the ... incredible, undiminished support I've received across the years from my supporters not only from my district but across the country as well.

My, my, I, I, I.

Conyers is not an icon, a mythic, supernatural figure or a legend.

He's just a selfish guy who has been in Congress too long, creating a fiefdom that dehumanized and betrayed the very movement that he so fervently claims as his own.