W.E. A.L.L. B.E.: Sign THE PetITion: REnaME MEmphis INternational Airport @flymemphis For Black Aviation Pioneers Jimmie LUNceford & Luke WEaTHErs

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Sign THE PetITion: REnaME MEmphis INternational For Black Aviation Pioneers Jimmie LUNceford & Luke WEaTHErs

SIGN THE PETITION:
https://www.change.org/p/the-memphis-shelby-county-airport-authority-rename-memphis-international-for-black-aviation-pioneers-jimmie-lunceford-luke-weathers

To Whomever Reads This & Is Inspired To Be Apart Of A Positive Change That WE, THE PEOPLE, CAN ALL BELIEVE IN:

I believe that the Memphis International Airport should be renamed after two true American heroes and aviation pioneers who actually once called Memphis,TN their home:

1.) Jimmie Lunceford aka 'The Father Of Memphis Music Education' & 'The King Of Swing'

2.) Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers, Jr., Original Tuskegee Airman & First African American Air Traffic Controller In Memphis, TN.

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"WHY NOT???" & "WHY IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN!!!"

* If New Orleans Airport Can Be Named For Louis 'SATCHMO' Armstrong...

* If Jackson, MS International Airport Can Be Named For Medgar Evers...

* If Baltimore, MD International Airport Can Be Named For Thurgood Marshall...

* If Birmingham, AL International Airport Can Be Named For Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth...

* If Atlanta International Airport Can Be Named For Maynard Jackson...

THEN WHY CAN'T THE MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, LOCATED IN A MAJORITY AFRICAN AMERICAN CITY, BE RENAMED AFTER AFRICAN AMERICAN HEROES WHO WERE ALSO AVIATION PIONEERS WITH MEMPHIS CONNECTIONS/ROOTS???

I can only imagine the wonders it would do for the psyche and confidence of young Black Memphians growing up in a city where the positive and inspirational legacies of Black men who were once proud Memphians are properly honored and visible on a daily basis in a very public way. In a city known for well documented racial division and polarization as well as the infamous and tragic assassination of the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the very public burial place and equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest (the notorious slave trader, Confederate Civil War General/War Criminal & 1st Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard) this gesture could possibly go a long way in properly healing generational trauma that continues to inflict this city which still has so much potential to be exceptionally great.

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