Thank you, Michael, for the transcription of Rep. Lewis's words I used to make this image macro. I was happy to have it to post on my workplace's FB page too.
well, yes, the remarkably brave and true John Lewis did and kept going. The kids in Portland are getting thrashed but still go out every day and night since the murder of George- white kids in front of their black brothers and sisters, taking the heat this time. Maybe, just maybe , this time change may come. They are not intimidated nor are they giving up. These kids!!!
"At age 25, Lewis helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull. Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
"I gave a little blood on that bridge," he said years later. "I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death." https://www.cnn.com/.../john-lewis-dead-at-80/index.html
Today I heard part of an interview with John Lewis, on the radio, from a few years ago. He mentioned "good trouble" and said he'd been arrested 40 times during the civil rights protests. The interviewer said "only 40 times?" with a laugh of amazement. So Lewis continued by saying he'd been arrested another 5 times after he became a member of congress...and because of what was going on with immigration (children in cages, I suppose) he expected he'd be arrested a few more times in the near future.
It made me feel ashamed that I have never (yet) been arrested.
well, yes, the remarkably brave and true John Lewis did and kept going. The kids in Portland are getting thrashed but still go out every day and night since the murder of George- white kids in front of their black brothers and sisters, taking the heat this time. Maybe, just maybe , this time change may come. They are not intimidated nor are they giving up.
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like the kids in Portland!
"At age 25, Lewis helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull. Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
"I gave a little blood on that bridge," he said years later. "I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death."
https://www.cnn.com/.../john-lewis-dead-at-80/index.html
--Frex = Fresca
Amen to that.
ReplyDeleteToday I heard part of an interview with John Lewis, on the radio, from a few years ago. He mentioned "good trouble" and said he'd been arrested 40 times during the civil rights protests. The interviewer said "only 40 times?" with a laugh of amazement. So Lewis continued by saying he'd been arrested another 5 times after he became a member of congress...and because of what was going on with immigration (children in cages, I suppose) he expected he'd be arrested a few more times in the near future.
ReplyDeleteIt made me feel ashamed that I have never (yet) been arrested.