“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” —John Lewis, Congressman and Civil Rights icon, speaking at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020. As he prayed along with other marchers, Rep, Lewis was beaten by racist police on Sunday, March 7, 1965 -- now known as "Bloody Sunday" -- as he non-violently protested continued discrimination against African Americans.
The "No Kings" events that were held yesterday around the country and the world were a wonderful example of the "good trouble, necessary trouble" that Lewis referred to. More of that "good trouble" is coming, until the depredations of the Trump regime and his racist MAGA movement are consigned to history's ash heap.
(photo: Lewis at the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Jeremy Moorhead / CNN)
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