This activist computer generated image represents a chain of progression connection. First, you have a mug shot (bottom) of Rosa Parks’ arrest that ignited the black protests against social inequalities of the 60s. Then, I added a head portrait of the late John Roberts Lewis scrunched into and looking through the top of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, structured as a helmeted facemask that can well second as jail bars. John was clubbed and beaten on that first march over the infamous bridge. (Martin Luther led the second march which he turned around–¬for good reason).

Congressman Lewis was arrested some 45 times in his fight for racial equality, but he also received our country’s highest civilian honor: The Presidential Medal of Freedom for his lifetime pursuit for all of our civil rights. (There’s a bill about to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the John Lewis Bridge. I, enthusiastically, second the motion).

Of course, Mr. Lewis wears Colin Kaepernick’s jersey number 7. Colin’s the “outlaw” NFL QB who dared to kneel throughout a season during the playing of out national anthem. He took major hits (economically and fan wise) for his stand/kneel on racial inequality. It took some time, coupled with the George Floyd murder, to convince most Americas (not Trump) and the NFL higher-ups that his kneeling had nothing to do with disrespecting our country’s flag and/or anthem. Now the NFL is totally aboard in helping to raise awareness of the African Americans fight for racial equality in a systemic racial system. Amen to that!