Retracing the Struggle - Hundreds Gather to Re-enact Kings' March in MA

[kerrygoddess]

Retracing the Struggle - Hundreds Gather to Re-enact Martin Luther King’s March in Boston
October 30, 2005


(AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

John Kerry, applaudes Congressman John Lewis, of Georgia, as Lewis takes the podium to speak to a crowd today at the First Church in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

Hundreds of people “gathered in Boston this afternoon to re-enact a march that Martin Luther King led 40 years ago to protest school segregation in the city.”


In April of 1965, King led marchers on a three-mile walk that ended with a rally on Boston Common. Later that year, the state Legislature passed a measure outlawing racially imbalanced schools.

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[Mass]

1. A short video of the event

http://cbs4boston.com/video

A few moments with Kerry

And here on NECN

http://www.boston.com/news/necn/New_England/

[kerrygoddess]

3. Thanks Mass

I added a link to the CBS video. I can never get the NECN video's to work.

[Mass]

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[MH1]

4. oooh, oooh JK said the 'F' word

Did you guys catch that in the NECN video? When he talked about what the republicans want to do to the Voting Rights Act..."pretending to stop the very thing that they've been engaged in. Which is fraud."

Okay, he's probably said it plenty of times. But if you hang out in GD you wouldn't think so.

(thanks for the links, Mass!)

[karynnj]

11. Funny, given all the DU comments

I wonder if the RW will pick up on it - as it's one of the few times he has said it without all kinds of qualifications.

[Mass]

13. I may be wrong, but I think he says phony.

But he has said the other one more than once.

[karynnj]

14. He says both

I went back to listen again, he said they were putting the phony provisions in to prevent what the are engaged in which is fraud. It's true you could parse this that putting in the the provisions themselves is fraud.

[Mass]

15. I did not read MH1 well enough - I thought it was another F* word.

[MH1]

18. Hee hee, I got you!

Nyah nyah nyah..

:P

[MH1]

17. Aw man you made me listen to it again...

(not that that's a bad thing!)

He does say "fraud" (and "phony", too):

REPORTER: Thousands took part in the march from Roxbury to Boston Commons, and were urged not only to remember the struggle but to continue it, especially with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 up for reauthorization in 2007.

KERRY: We're very concerned about what the Republicans want to do to it. They're trying to put these phony provisions in it, that actually make it harder for people to vote, pretending that they're trying to stop the very thing that they've been engaged in. Which is fraud.

Also note what Lewis says just prior to that (in the news report):

...I think for the rest of my life I will be part of a struggle to redeem the soul of America.

(apologies for any errors in transcription...I think I got it pretty close.)

[globalvillage]

16. The F word.

:spray:
I'm glad I read the rest of your post.

[MH1]

20. Hee hee, I thought everyone around DU knew what

"the F word" means here - and that it ain't your daddy's F word.

Otherwise I would have bolded "fraud" or something.

[YvonneCa]

19. I've been paying attention...

...since November 2nd...this is the first time I've heard him say that. I've been waiting for him to do so. Kerrygoddess, what do you think? THIS IS GREAT ! !:patriot:

[Island Blue]

6. From the CBS / Boston link

Kerry is also briefly seen in the segment that says "Senate Minority Leader Calls on Rove to Resign".

Back to the main topic, it's great to see that so many folks turned out for the march today!

[Mass]

9. Thanks, I did not see that/

[karynnj]

7. Thanks for the links

Watching the NECN video, I don't think Kerry needs Clinton to tell him to speak up - his comment that the Republicans were trying to put in provisions to make it harder to vote, saying it was to prevent the very thing they wer involved it, fraud!

[Mass]

10. I really liked Kerry in these videos

Very relaxed, rested, smiling, speaking very naturally.

Not at all the stiff guy who does not connect that pundits like to talk about.

[karynnj]

12. Also cool that he can walk miles in Boston

surrounded by people not selected by him. I'm not sure Bush could find a city in the country where this would be comfortable.

[Mass]

2. And a short text account.

http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_303181115.html

Thousands Gather At Civil Rights March In Boston
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Ron Sanders
Reporting


(CBS4) BOSTON Several thousand people marched from Roxbury to the Boston common in the footsteps of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who, 40 years ago, was protesting school segregation here.

The month before, he led the historic march from Selma to Montgomery to protest voting discrimination.

"My legs are tired, but I can follow that up by saying my soul is rested," King then said.

"As a young child, I tasted the bitter fruit of segregation," said Georgia Cong. John Lewis.

Lewis, who was in Boston this Sunday, was in Alabama with Dr. King in 1965 on what became known as "Bloody Sunday," when he was beaten so badly he was brought to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.

"I was hit in the head by a state trooper," he said. "I had a concussion at the bridge. I thought I was going to die."

...

[politicasista]

5. Thanks KG and Mass

John Lewis is a fine man and a proud alumnus of my alma mater (Fisk University).

Glad to see JK continuing to stay involved in civil rights issues. (I know he always has, but so-called black leaders complained he wasn't). :)

[blm]

21. Kerry and John Lewis have always seemed pretty tight to me.

I think Lewis knows who is for real in DC and who just talks the game.