Time for a NEW generation of Freedom Riders?

[Ken Burch]

Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2013, 06:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Jim Crow will now be restored south of the Mason-Dixon, and it appears nothing and no one can stop it in the short term.

We will need a NEW Civil Rights Act...and a Voting Rights Amendment(in which, of course, all provisions would apply to every state).

This issue now matters more than all others...it will be the new moral crusade of our era.

Who will take the risks? Who will, if need be, be the next Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman? The next Violet Liuzzo.

We must now fight all over again to keep this a free country.

God or personal conscience help us all.

[datasuspect]

1. it's too late

people get motivated to hit the streets when professional sports teams win championships.

it's too late.

[randome]

2. This is more important than taking up arms to protect our precious metadata!

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[HappyMe]

5. Yup.

The other means nothing in the face of this.

[Romulus Quirinus]

10. I would disagree with this statement.

Because the people who control the data are also the ones who want resurrect Jim Crow.

They have learned from the past. They will secure their gains not by main force (though that will play a role), but by preventing the formation of a new SCLC or a new Civil Rights Movement, strangling them in the cradle. The development over the last decade of centralized, automated assembly of activist dossiers will allow a level of monitoring and interference that J. Edgar could only have dreamed of. If we are to win, we must be led by one who is like Christ Himself, because all of our pasts will be laid bare.

So you see, one flows naturally from the other. They are two sides of the same coin.

[HiPointDem]

13. +1

[HappyMe]

14. Back in the day, they didn't need any

damn computers or emails to crank up a civil rights movement. Worked fine then.

I'll work for civil rights (including gay marriage) and voting rights.


Led by one who is like Christ himself? Who the hell is that?

[Romulus Quirinus]

15. As will I.

But I suspect that the effort will feel more like climbing a greasy pole rather than a climb to the mountaintop.

Reply to edit: That's the problem. Who doesn't have a skeleton or two in the closet?

[HappyMe]

16. The same way it felt back then.

[Romulus Quirinus]

17. This is true. nt

[NoPasaran]

3. The next Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman?

Nah, who will be the next William Tecumseh Sherman?

[Ken Burch]

4. No, not Sherman.

Half the reason the South is so stubborn about moving on is the brutality Sherman used in Georgia.
Today, Sherman would be given a Section 8(or whatever the current term is for a psych discharge)long before he got the chance to "March To The Sea".

[femmocrat]

6. It's not just in the south.

Pennsylvania is trying hard to implement a very repressive voter ID law. It's in the courts right now, but this decision could pave the way for it.

[Ken Burch]

7. Which is why the Voters Rights Amendment

needs to cover all states on the issues Article 4 covered.

(Scary thought...Roberts is from Pennsylvania...could that be why he was so determined to strike down Article 4?)

[femmocrat]

8. He's not from Pennsylvania.

He was born in NY and grew up in Indiana according to wiki. That doesn't explain anything though! He is delusional if he thinks that Congress can "fix it". Texas and Mississippi are already moving ahead with restrictive voter ID rules. Make me sick.

[Ken Burch]

11. You're right...it's Alito that's from Philly. My bad. n/t.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Read the decision

He gave an out if this morass.

[alfie]

9. I think we should help get as many folks the ID they need

where that has been voted in. Go get them in vans, take them wherever they need to get a proper ID. Help them get the documents they will need. Go back and knock on doors, be sure they know where and when to vote etc. in 2014 and 2016.

[octoberlib]

18. We're ready to go in NC.

We've been protesting Republican atrocities for a while now. This just adds fuel to fire.

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