Selma, Lord, Selma

[DemoTex]

I crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma today, for about the 100th time. It always chokes me up.

[katandmoon]

1. K&R

[Captain Hilts]

2. That's cool!

[EFerrari]

3. Police Kill Two Students at Jackson State in Mississippi, Ten Days After Kent State Killings

Four decades ago, on May 4, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University when National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students at an on-campus antiwar rally. The killings received national media attention and are still remembered forty years later across the country. But the media has largely forgotten what happened just ten days after the Kent State shootings. On May 14, 1970, local and state police opened fire on a group of students at the predominantly black Jackson State College in Mississippi. In a twenty-eight-second barrage of gunfire, police fired hundreds of rounds into the crowd. Two were killed and a dozen injured. We speak with Gene Young, a former student at Jackson State who witnessed the shooting.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/14/40_years_ago_police_kill_two

btw.

[babylonsister]

4. Thanks for posting that. nt

[DemoTex]

5. And now the Tea Baggers want to turn back the clock to those good 'ole days.

Shoot commie hippies. Shoot uppity Negroes. We are headed that way again if we are not careful. Verb Sap!

[MadMaddie]

6. DemoTex the repug talking heads are wanting exactly that

no doubt about it.

[deaniac21]

10. uh, yeah.

[demodonkey]

7. Thank You DemoTex! And to everyone else, if you have never been to Selma....

...GO!

It is an experience that will change your life.



(demodonkey in Selma early 2005 after the Ohio Recount)

[HughMoran]

8. Makes my heart heavy looking at the pictures

[Liberal In Texas]

9. I have never been to Selma Alabama.

And I have never had any intention of going there. But, posting this...

I might have to make a detour sometime to be a witness. Or to think what it might have been to have been a witness, since I can never really be one.

[Suich]

11. K&R!

(When are you headed to Oregon?)