Watching a video last night of John Lewis’ body being taken one last time across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought of the Shakespeare quote from Julius Ceasar – “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” While that may often be the case, Bill, I gotta call “bullshit” on this one when it comes to John Lewis. One of the original Freedom Fighters, Lewis was on the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, and returned often on the March 7 anniversary to make the march again – only in the return crossings he was not beaten and bloodied by Alabama state troopers. On that Lewis noted: “Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
Lewis’ legacy in the civil rights movement, and later as the “Conscience of Congress” will not be “interred with [his] bones,” and shame on us if we allow it to be.
It occurs to me... 