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| Prompt: On this day in 1965, state troopers used nightsticks and tear gas to attack American civil rights activists as they crossed a bridge in Selma, Alabama, during their attempted march to the state capitol in Montgomery. Are you concerned that history is repeating itself with all the recent changes to equal rights and diversity rights? --------- I'd be so off base if I were to comment on a situation while we are in that situation. The bottom line is, we don't know all the facts and a haphazard comment could get in the way of the progress. I'd say let the chips fall where they may and then, we could analyze it. Which shows that I'm no history maker but only a history reader, and yes, history does have a way of repeating itself, but it wears different outfits each time, so we think the stuff is new and original. As to MLK and Civil Rights Movement, the history books, when truthful, do a better job of giving us such facts. Those of us, who were around during the nineteen-sixties, know something about those events, more or less. What still disturbs me, though, during those MLK-led marches, is the cheering from the onlookers, all white people, while the troopers attacked the demonstrators with clubs and tear gas. About a week later after the first march, a church deacon died in the hospital as the result of that unnecessary police force. Still, a second march took place. Although Johnson, the president, had told the marchers not to try again, he changed his mind once the March went on anyway, a few days later. This second march was the undoing of the Alabama Governor Wallace because he ordered the state troopers to stop the march. Also because, during the flow of events, Ku Klux Klan was involved, and the Klan killed a housewife who was about to help send the marchers home. While all this was happening I was about to graduate from College and the news shocked us, since some of it we couldn't believe and other parts of it we were terribly upset about. Plus, we all seriously disliked Governor Wallace. As the result of those marches, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which seemed to be doubtful at the time, but that led to many other more favorable things. I only hope our present-day events take much more positive steps, to satisfy not just one faction but our entire country. The situation in our day goes to show that what President Johnson said about the right to vote--“the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice"-- was not enough. This is because injustice is not only against skin color, but its roots have penetrated inside many other areas of our society. It must be our deficit as humans that we always find someone or some group to trample upon once we get the chance. In my opinion, therefore, many other areas of our national soul and being need to be paid much more attention. |
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