This afternoon, in the hot center of the state of Alabama, a parade of Americans will pay homage to a historic march. Meeting on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, on which hundreds of black Americans were beaten for the crime of standing up to their government, Barack Obama will remember a heroic feat of rebellion, and a brutal act of repression. The president, the White House has announced, will speak personally “about what it means to stand on the spot where police beat and gassed 600 unarmed protestors,” and he will explain what the moment means to him as an African American. And the Republican party’s current leadership will be nowhere to be seen. more . . .
How much of the democrat leadership attended the NRA convention? No one gives a crap about elderly race hustlers trying to wring one last bit of racial grievance out of something that happened 50 years ago.
Selma does weigh a lot on Obama. Selma is what allowed his parents to get together, even though he was already born when the march happened.