Seychelle Gabriel

Seychelle Gabriel Instagram – RIP to the hero and congressman, John Lewis. I took this photo during a walk down Atlanta’s historic “sweet” Auburn Avenue on MLK day in 2017 while I was working in the city at the time. Five days earlier, John Lewis testified against the nomination of the historically racist Jeff Sessions as Attorney General (slide 4). Four days later was the dreadful inauguration of Trump, an event which John Lewis would boycott in an admirable continuation of his long legacy of speaking truth to unjust power. John Lewis was fighting for justice his whole life, putting his actual body on the line many, many times for voting rights, for basic human rights in “the land of the free.” Let’s remember Lewis and vote for those who value BIPOC lives and rights. (Slide 3 is part of his speech at the 1963 March on Washington.) | Posted on 19/Jul/2020 04:26:57