In Selma, 55 years after Bloody Sunday,
concern rises over voting rights
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Ankita Rao
&
Sam Levine
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/1/2020 11:23:10 AM
On Saturday morning, Henry Allen sat at a cafeteria table at Selma High School with a breakfast of eggs, sausage and biscuit. The room was filled with friends telling stories and people singing protest songs. When he attended the school, he wouldn’t have been allowed in. In the 1960s, when Selma was becoming a symbol of the fight over voting rights, its school system was segregated. “We were under Jim Crow law but we didn’t know it at the time,” said Allen, who marched in protest half a century ago. The school system is integrated now but the high school is completely black.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/1/2020 11:39:58 AM (No. 333622)
Oh, let me be the first: "Iz Selmer all obah agin!"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/1/2020 12:05:52 PM (No. 333641)
Left unsaid is the fact that Jim Crow was created by the democrat party of the South to keep blacks as a group enslaved in a different, but legal at the time, way. Also left unsaid is the fact that Selma is a product of democrat policies that are proving to be another in a long list of failure for democrats.
Seems to me that Selma is exactly what the black community wants. The white population moved out and left the city to the minority population. Maybe Selma should be brought up again, but for use as a different kind of lesson. The fact that democrats of any ethnicity are complete failures when it comes to governing.
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If it's the UK Guardian you can be sure it leans far leftist, anti-American, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, slanted left, you get the idea etc. So read with a large grain of salt if you read it at all.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2020 12:27:57 PM (No. 333666)
I refuse to even click on a Communist British propaganda rag to read their harangue on American voting rights, or anything else associated with out government.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/1/2020 12:37:41 PM (No. 333675)
How is 'no early voting' voter suppression?
how is it that requiring voter iD is voter suppression, when most of the things we do in life require ID?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/1/2020 12:54:49 PM (No. 333693)
I might add these area's are still ruled by the Democrat Party so in some ways nothing really changed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BillW. 3/1/2020 1:08:38 PM (No. 333699)
March 1965. America is having a big week. I shake hands with the twelve other New Yorkers bound for Air Force Basic Training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. Nineteen then looking back at the backside of seventy-three now, in a life full of paradox and irony, I’d relished breakfast with my grandparents that morning, yet will not see them or any of my family again for another six years.
Our flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport stops in Atlanta, Georgia, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and four associates in trim gray suits board. With these determined-looking young men sitting a row or two in front of us, some guys got autographs. Two days later, March 7, Dr. King led 600 voting rights activists on the famous “March to the Bridge” in Selma, Alabama.
Then on March 8, lead elements of the 3rd Marine Division splash ashore at Da Nang, Vietnam. In full battle gear, carrying M-14s, sightseers meet the Marine grunts: South Vietnamese officers, Vietnamese girls with leis, and four American soldiers holding a sign reading: “Welcome, Gallant Marines.” But an appalled Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. military commander in Saigon, intended his Marines to wade in without fanfare. --Vets for Trump 2020
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kewmac 3/1/2020 1:58:30 PM (No. 333725)
The current plight of Selma sounds a great deal like the plights of South Africa and Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia).
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/1/2020 2:10:08 PM (No. 333729)
There sure are a lot of people out there who use the past to excuse current failure.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NYbob 3/1/2020 2:52:58 PM (No. 333742)
Cheating is cheating. Pretending one thing is something else, does not make it so. It is disgusting that people in the British propaganda rag spewed this. The people in the article who suggest that fighting true rat racism is the same as trying to prevent the destruction of votes by sanctioned rat fraud should be ashamed. Unfortunately for society, neither they or the scum in England have any honor, therefore any sort of shame about intentional lying, eludes them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sunnyday 3/1/2020 2:57:01 PM (No. 333747)
Do folks know that "civil rights" became an issue when the democrats needed their vote?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/1/2020 7:42:01 PM (No. 333921)
Every election year the same old tripe about Jim Crow, Poll Tax, and the "voting" hoax rises from the dead. Why didn't the MSM draw attention the the Black Panthers standing outside the white neighborhood poll stations with billy clubs in their hands? Not newsworthy?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
italianlooks 3/1/2020 8:36:50 PM (No. 333961)
This was A Democrat south and this was a Democrat object.. Democrats were segregation based party.. Hello Robert Byrd..Sen Gore, father of Al Gore, Fulbright, Bull Connor, Gov Wallace to name a few of the major powers!
Please...the Democrats are Charlatans!!
Frauds!
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The white devil packed up and left, but instead of a paradise, the victorious black residents have a stagnant city with few jobs and no path forward. Voter ID, restrictions on felons, and no early voting are deemed "voter suppression," and the few remaining white families send their kids to private schools rather than serving as targets in public schools. The political climate is desperate in a 100% black-run city and the older folks want the young people to rise up like they did, but who are they fighting?