Why Selma Is So Relevant Today
In 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot while taking refuge from violent state troopers in a restaurant in Selma, Alabama. His death ignited a 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, which galvanized the passing of the Voting Rights Act. As we reach the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when demonstrators attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge faced tear gas and clubs in the fight for true voting rights, the conversation about racial equality is as salient as ever.
Racist ignorance is far from gone - especially in the South.
One can be all for racial equality and racial justice without accepting your laughable proposition that the situation in which we live is anything akin to the rampant kind of hideous racist attitudes of 50 years ago.
Your racist ignorance is on full display, Dorkhota.