Say Thank You to John Lewis for his lifetime of service to Black People

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

Hope you're doing something to commemorate the greatness and the legacy of our people in spite of and because of the oppression we've suffered for more than 400 years.

i receive several requests to contribute to different candidates and causes.  Some, to me, are more relevant than others, and I will share them with you from time to time.  And, of course, anything about our living hero, John Lewis, I'm urging you to respond to immediately, if not sooner.  

The fact that our brother has consistently laid his life on the line is more than enough reason to contribute.

As I write this, I'm watching the movie, "SELMA," and reliving that period in our lives when whites were completely berserk - and the fact that Mr. Lewis put his life on the line and very nearly lost it.  The depiction of his leadership, the graphic depiction of the brutality that took was leveled against us because we stood up for our rights - more than warrants our continued respect, love and support for this valiant brother and those who stood with him for our rights.

Selma  is a pretty accurate depiction of what we went through to gain our basic rights in this country.  Out of it emerged several heroes - including, of course, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Congressman John Lewis.  There were many other heroes and sheroes, sung and unsung, who are the catalysts for forcing President John's hand in making sure we had our rights.  

I was a sophomore student at Hampton Institute (now University) at that time, and had grown up sitting in and participating in the movement.  We had originally planned to participate in the march, but were forbidden, on pain of expulsion, from going - even though we had several buses and hundreds of students prepared to leave, along with students from Lincoln University, to make that ride to a place I had never been to help people I didn't know.  But they were our brothers and sisters - that was all we needed to know.  We ended up sitting in on Hampton because they block our right to stand up for our rights (but that's another story for another day).

The horror that ensued in Alabama, something none of us expected - and I doubt seriously, had we been there, that we would have survived such brutality.  I doubt that any of those who perpetrated the violence against innocent, unarmed people were ever arrested, or suffered any consequences for their heinous actions - with the exception of Gov. George Wallace being shot in the butt (we still laugh about that one), years later.  

As a result of those valiant brothers and sisters' relentlessness, Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.  And the beginning of many other programs, recipitated by the insane racism on the part of his own Democrats, were enacted - many of which have been instrumental in leveling the playing field.  (I might also add, his racist redneck Democrats were so pissed they decided to jump the party, become Republicans so they form a majority and vote him out of office - (which is how we got the repuglycon party we have today).  But it didn't work - We had our rights for the first time, we voted, and we helped each other vote as well. 

That was in 1965 - we are now in 2020 - Brother John Lewis is still standing and working for Black people's right.  Show his how much you appreciate him.  

 

So sign in and sign up and thank this brother and chip in your contribution as well.

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