Biff_Poindexter
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing 60th anniversary: Birmingham church bells will sound at 10:22 a.m.
On Sept. 15, 1963 at 10:22 a.m., an explosion rocked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
www.al.com
"Several Birmingham-area churches will ring their bells four times at 10:22 a.m. today in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Lisa McNair, the sister of one of the victims, made this request. According to McNair, churches who don’t have bell towers will use hand bells in front of the church to mark the moment of the bombing and a Jewish temple will blow the shofar.
On September 15, 1963 at 10:22 a.m. the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb that exploded in the church’s basement and killed Lisa’s sister Denise, 11, and 14-year-olds Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins and injured several others. “I’ve been trying to get this project off for several years,” McNair told AL.com. “It looks like it’s finally taking place.” The annual memorial service at 16th Street Baptist Church is at 9:30 a.m. featuring Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The doors opened to the public at 7:30 a.m."
Why is this something that we are trying to force churches to participate in? It's like 60 years ago, nobody is even around from back then - why remember something from so long ago? All it does is stoke division. Remembering these people won't heal our nation or bring us together - the best thing to do is forget about it and move on. So this need to talk about it still and even teach children about it? How is this helpful? If the family members of these dead people want to remember them or whatever, we can't stop that - but we shouldn't let these people force their agenda down our throats -- if they choose to want to remember what the Democrats did; that's on them.
You would think someone like Kentanji Brown would want us to FORGET what her liberal ideology has brought about 60 yrs ago - you would think she wouldn't want to remind us that the liberals are still the party of the KKK and white supremacy as well the party of anti-white racism - you would think they would want to hide this; ban it from being remembered - but their insistence on bringing it up is basically just laughing in the face of the victims; and being proud of their dirty work.