Soon the name Edmund Pettis will be gone from our consciousness As this bridge gets renamed for John Lewis. A man who led us into a better future as a country.

And may it not be the last renaming we see!

of the march over that bridge. The fact that it was on film, for all of us to see, was crucial to the ability of all Americans to see what Black people were up against. It proved that if we see it happen it makes a great impact. The fact we saw for ourselves the murder of George Floyd is what brought us all out to support BLM, and why that support will never go away.

I feel like I’ve lived to see a completed cycle of what happened to a great Civil Rights leader. The bridge itself is symbolic of what Civil Rights means.

I feel fortunate to be a witness of such greatness in the face of such cruelty. I feel that now we are watching the death of White Supremacy, and it makes me feel very good.

RIP.

I was in the ninth grade in Albert G. Parrish High School in Selma when the Selma-to-Montgomery march happened. I haven't lived there since 1971, but my parents and an older brother are buried there and I still have two first cousins who live there. Other than that, I have almost no reason other than curiosity and nostalgia ever to visit there again.

But curiosity and nostalgia are sufficient, and I do visit there for a day or two every three or four years or so. In 2009 I noticed they had renamed Jeff Davis Ave. to J.L. Chestnut Boulevard. Chestnut was a Selma civil rights attorney who figured prominently in the 1965 march.

Now they're going to rename the bridge for John Lewis, and it's about time.

-- Ron

It was very moving.