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Pic Of The Moment: "The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Towards Justice"
80,000 people crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge this afternoon
POTUS just dropped the Mic for the ages.
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There should be a picture of all of them - along with all of the club-holding sheriffs, marshals, and government officials that were standing there 50 years ago! 
deray mckesson @deray Follow
Selma. Now and Then. #Selma50
9:30 AM - 8 Mar 2015 4,905 Retweets 4,163 favorites
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/03/08/a-tweet-or-two-229/
Across the Selma Bridge... The Road Ahead
As two dozen of us marched to the midpoint of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday where 50 years ago protesters pushing for voting rights including Hosea Williams and (now Congressman) John Lewis were beaten and tear gassed, I stood directly behind President Obama and next to the wheelchair of 103-year-old activist Amelia Boynton Robinson who was beaten on that very bridge decades earlier. Despite being attacked by police on what became known as "Bloody Sunday", she continued to register voters and push for equality. And on Saturday, she was speaking with one of the results of that unyielding fight -- the first African American president of the United States. As President Obama, the first family, former President George W. Bush and others made their way to the halfway point of the bridge, I thought about how 50 years ago, peaceful demonstrators were blocked from finishing their march across the bridge to Montgomery, Alabama. But I also thought about 50 years from now, and how the leaders and citizens of tomorrow will judge us based on what we did to keep the nation progressing forward. This weekend was a commemoration of a significant moment in history, but it was also a call to keep marching forward on the road ahead for our work is far from done.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/across-the-selma-bridgeth_b_6832414.html
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http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/103-year-old-activist-i-was-almost-killed-fighting-for-freedom/
It was the sickening image that woke up the world to the brutality that gave birth to the civil rights struggle: a God-fearing, middle-aged woman lying helpless and unconscious on the side of the road. She had been savagely beaten with clubs. Then, a helmeted law enforcement officer pumped tear gas into her throat before leaving her for dead. Or, as the racist sheriff callously put it, “for the buzzards to eat.”
Newswires flashed the shocking March 7, 1965, pictures of Mrs. Amelia Boynton across the globe. Every major newspaper and TV network carried them. And the message was loud and clear: This is what America does to blacks who dare make a stand.
Half a century on — with nationwide protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white policeman in Ferguson, Mo., showing that the struggle continues — the fateful Bloody Sunday march has been re-created in the much-anticipated movie “Selma,” out on Christmas Day.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/103-year-old-activist-i-was-almost-killed-fighting-for-freedom/
As two dozen of us marched to the midpoint of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday where 50 years ago protesters pushing for voting rights including Hosea Williams and (now Congressman) John Lewis were beaten and tear gassed, I stood directly behind President Obama and next to the wheelchair of 103-year-old activist Amelia Boynton Robinson who was beaten on that very bridge decades earlier. Despite being attacked by police on what became known as "Bloody Sunday", she continued to register voters and push for equality. And on Saturday, she was speaking with one of the results of that unyielding fight -- the first African American president of the United States. As President Obama, the first family, former President George W. Bush and others made their way to the halfway point of the bridge, I thought about how 50 years ago, peaceful demonstrators were blocked from finishing their march across the bridge to Montgomery, Alabama. But I also thought about 50 years from now, and how the leaders and citizens of tomorrow will judge us based on what we did to keep the nation progressing forward. This weekend was a commemoration of a significant moment in history, but it was also a call to keep marching forward on the road ahead for our work is far from done.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/across-the-selma-bridgeth_b_6832414.html
?w=420
http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/103-year-old-activist-i-was-almost-killed-fighting-for-freedom/
It was the sickening image that woke up the world to the brutality that gave birth to the civil rights struggle: a God-fearing, middle-aged woman lying helpless and unconscious on the side of the road. She had been savagely beaten with clubs. Then, a helmeted law enforcement officer pumped tear gas into her throat before leaving her for dead. Or, as the racist sheriff callously put it, “for the buzzards to eat.”
Newswires flashed the shocking March 7, 1965, pictures of Mrs. Amelia Boynton across the globe. Every major newspaper and TV network carried them. And the message was loud and clear: This is what America does to blacks who dare make a stand.
Half a century on — with nationwide protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white policeman in Ferguson, Mo., showing that the struggle continues — the fateful Bloody Sunday march has been re-created in the much-anticipated movie “Selma,” out on Christmas Day.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/103-year-old-activist-i-was-almost-killed-fighting-for-freedom/
Where is the Democratic Party? I guess it's a silent protest. Meanwhile, we are stirring up a shit storm with Venezuela over human rights.
