I can what, dragonboy? Prove a negative? While I'm clearly smarter than you, even I can't prove a negative, son. Your emotional outburst is partial proof I'm correct.
March 7th
- Thread starter Guno צְבִי
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Dude, this forum is full of Trumpers trying to "rekindle a race war". Agreed history can be taught without blaming anyone. It can also be taught without lies such as claiming slaves were "immigrant workers".
History is a great teacher since it helps show how both our nation and the world got to where we are in the present. What it shouldn't be used for is to bludgeon others or lie.
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Good question, can't wait for his answer
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Guno צְבִי
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How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement
The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act.
Nearly a century after the Confederacy’s guns fell silent, the racial legacies of slavery and Reconstruction continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice.
The passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 months earlier had done little in some parts of the state to ensure African Americans of the basic right to vote. Perhaps no place was Jim Crow’s grip tighter than in Dallas County, Alabama, where African Americans made up more than half of the population, yet accounted for just 2 percent of registered voters.
https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement
The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act.
Nearly a century after the Confederacy’s guns fell silent, the racial legacies of slavery and Reconstruction continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice.
The passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 months earlier had done little in some parts of the state to ensure African Americans of the basic right to vote. Perhaps no place was Jim Crow’s grip tighter than in Dallas County, Alabama, where African Americans made up more than half of the population, yet accounted for just 2 percent of registered voters.
https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement
Guno צְבִי
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An OT Biblical reference is Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven".
The aftermath of Selma can be traced to a lot of different things such as the work of civil rights workers, more public awareness about the inequities of Jim Crow and racism, the brutality of authorities and television.
IMO, television was a game changer just like it became a factor in ending the war in Vietnam. It's one thing to read a paragraph about a civil rights march but when it was on the evening news, more people could see the difference between right and wrong.
Guno צְבִי
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Yes TV was a game changer , not many channels and it reported straight
What TV did for civil rights and Vietnam, smartphones are doing today.
George Floyd's murder would have been a news blurb if not for smartphones. The fact there are still people stupid enough to think they can commit crimes in public and get away with it continues to amaze me. It doesn't matter if it's Chauvin, the Memphis cops or the 1/6 traitors.
Guno צְבִי
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Funny how Arby the rural rube takes offence about that time in history
The fact that he made it personal by attacking you says volumes.