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| Vol. 15 No. 15 JULY 27, 2020 |
| Good Trouble |
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In honor of the late and great Congressman John Lewis, I have
named this column Good Trouble. Throughout his personal,
professional and political career, Lewis urged people to make good
trouble, that is civil disobedience and other forms of non-violent —
meaning physically and emotionally — that would inevitable cause
ripples through the system and the present state of affairs.
It was the sit-ins in places like Nashville, Tennessee, Greenville,
North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia that brought about the
desegregation of many public accommodations, especially those
under the purview of the federal government. Sitting at the lunch
counters was against the law if you were African American. And
sitting at those lunch counters caused people like John Lewis to be
arrested. It caused problems for the system, results that Lewis
called “good trouble.’
It was the Selma to Montgomery March that defied the orders of local
and state authorities in Alabama and caused a police riot. Many
people were severely injured and arrested, Lewis among them. This
was good — if not painful — trouble. And the Selma to Montgomery
March — the third iteration — led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
which in turn led to the election of hundreds of African Americans to
local, state and national offices.
And while there have been many protests of late making “good
trouble” to make sure that the Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t
fade away without meaningful change happening, there is another
form of “good trouble” that people need to engage in on August 11th
and November 3rd. It is the act of voting, one of the most
revolutionary things you can do in combination with like-minded
citizens. -- READ MORE
named this column Good Trouble. Throughout his personal,
professional and political career, Lewis urged people to make good
trouble, that is civil disobedience and other forms of non-violent —
meaning physically and emotionally — that would inevitable cause
ripples through the system and the present state of affairs.
It was the sit-ins in places like Nashville, Tennessee, Greenville,
North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia that brought about the
desegregation of many public accommodations, especially those
under the purview of the federal government. Sitting at the lunch
counters was against the law if you were African American. And
sitting at those lunch counters caused people like John Lewis to be
arrested. It caused problems for the system, results that Lewis
called “good trouble.’
It was the Selma to Montgomery March that defied the orders of local
and state authorities in Alabama and caused a police riot. Many
people were severely injured and arrested, Lewis among them. This
was good — if not painful — trouble. And the Selma to Montgomery
March — the third iteration — led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
which in turn led to the election of hundreds of African Americans to
local, state and national offices.
And while there have been many protests of late making “good
trouble” to make sure that the Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t
fade away without meaningful change happening, there is another
form of “good trouble” that people need to engage in on August 11th
and November 3rd. It is the act of voting, one of the most
revolutionary things you can do in combination with like-minded
citizens. -- READ MORE
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