Big mistake Sanders was NOT at the Edmund Pettus bridge (Bloody Sunday)

[still_one]

[Cha]

1. To be with John Lewis and commenerate all those who Marched

on Bloody Sunday March 7, 1965 was the absolute honorable thing to do

Biden, Pete, Amy and Steyer were there.. why didn't Sanders go?

[still_one]

3. Thank-you Cha, typo. Appreciate the correction. Big error is right....

[NYMinute]

2. Yep .. but he never ever saw the importance of AA voters

He thought they would fall in with his income inequality message while being completely oblivious to the social inequality.

PS - he had 4 years to "get" it

[tishaLA]

4. Yup. 4 years ago, they showed that they believed

black votes were worth less than working class white votes. And they doubled down this time, saying they were going to expand the base by bringing in younger voters.

And they never showed up. Again.

And how do they think black voters felt about that snub on Sunday?

[sheshe2]

5. John Lewis.

John was beaten to an inch of his like 55 years ago. His skull was fractured. He made a surprise visit on Sunday, a march he has made every year. He is battling stage four cancer. He was there. Almost every candidate came to honor that day on the EP bridge.

Amy, Elizabeth, Mike, Joe a few that dropped out were there as well Steyer and Beto. One, no two current candidates were missing.

On the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” look back at the assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that led to the Voting Rights Act.

Nearly a century after the Confederacy’s guns fell silent, the racial legacies of slavery and Reconstruction continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. Even the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 months earlier had done little in some parts of the state to ensure African Americans of the basic right to vote. Perhaps no place was Jim Crow’s grip tighter than in Dallas County, where African Americans made up more than half of the population, yet accounted for just 2 percent of registered voters.

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Outrage at “Bloody Sunday” swept the country. Sympathizers staged sit-ins, traffic blockades and demonstrations in solidarity with the voting rights marchers. Some even traveled to Selma where two days later King attempted another march but, to the dismay of some demonstrators, turned back when troopers again blocked the highway at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Finally, after a federal court order permitted the protest, the voting rights marchers left Selma on March 21 under the protection of federalized National Guard troops. Four days later, they reached Montgomery with the crowd growing to 25,000 by the time they reached the capitol steps.

The events in Selma galvanized public opinion and mobilized Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act, which President Johnson signed into law on August 6, 1965. Today, the bridge that served as the backdrop to “Bloody Sunday” still bears the name of a white supremacist, but now it is a symbolic civil rights landmark.

https://www.history.com/news/selmas-bloody-sunday-50-years-ago

[still_one]

6. Thank-you. It is important people know what happened there, and remember those who were seriously

beaten and injured simply for demonstrating for the right to vote

[sheshe2]

7. A right we are all doing today.

[still_one]

8. and that they are still trying to take away

[HarlanPepper]

9. It was a disgrace.