Dear John Lewis

Your book MARCH, so far has covered the despicable 16th street church bombing in Birmingham that was meant to send a message to civil rights movement leaders that they are not allowed to assemble for the right to vote. It then covers a hate crime where a group of white teens who were part of the eagle scouts shot a black teen on a bike. I thought that this depiction was amazing because of the visual aspect of the book. It did a great job of transmitting the emotion to the reader. I think the way that the story is written allows me to understand what is happening on a more emotional level. The darkness of the pages that cover the bombing made me feel what happened there just a little more bit and helped transported me back to that time. The solution is difficult to determine. How do you get rid of hate? How do you stop bombings?   I think the answers to these questions are so complicated and just hard that there isn’t much of a point for me to try to answer that. Racism is such a core evil to the human condition that I think, that, unfortunately, can’t be solved, but I hope I am wrong.

Sincerely Zac