Opinion: Newsom bridge walk an insult to Selma walk
Sadly, there’s no cure for political tone-deafness.
The inauguration march, which the Newsom team called a “March for Democracy,” was scheduled on Jan. 6, apparently in the hope that viewers would see dramatic pictures of Newsom leading a march across a bridge and contrast those images with the actions of former President Trump and his supporters on the same date two years ago.
It was in bad taste for the governor to visually compare himself to then-25-year-old future congressman John Lewis, who walked at the front of the march of about 600 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, on that day in 1965 that went into the history books as Bloody Sunday. When the peaceful voting rights protesters crossed the steel-arched Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River, they were met by state troopers wielding billy clubs and county sheriff’s deputies on horseback.
Lewis and Williams would not turn around and walk away. The troopers, wearing gas masks, advanced on the protesters, who were beaten and tear-gassed despite the fact that they were not fighting back. Lewis was knocked to the ground and hit in the head with a nightstick. The deputies on horseback moved forward and forced the protesters back by swinging clubs, whips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire.Here’s what happened on the Tower Bridge in Sacramento last week.
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