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| Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |
| Looking Back on Bloody Sunday |
A crowded bridge. People ask if they might kneel down and prat before the turn back . The Alabama state troopers will hear none of it. They launch an attack on the crowd, beating them with nightsticks, releasing tear gas, savagely attacking the gather individuals. This is a snapshot of what occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, Bloody Sunday. A group of people attempted to march from Montgomery from to Selma Alabama, to secure civil rights for African- Americans only 45 years ago. Peacable prostesters brutally beaten over the most basic of human rights. Horrific.
We have come a long since that day. We have an African-American president, African-Americans are represented in each branch of federal government. That being said, the numbers are still skewed. People ought and died for the rote to vote, the right for equality and the opportunity to represent their nation in government. People face horrific beating for basic civil rights and secure for future generations rights that the previous did not have. We should honor their memory with not only remembrance, but progress. Racism is still existent in our society and I can think of no better way to salute the work they have done than to continue on their message and work to stamp t out for good. |
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