In 1965, the Civil Rights Act was passed. I remember that day. I was a freshman in college and there were celebrations on campus – not just among black students, but among whites. We understood what this meant. We’d seen the TV images of marchers on the far side of Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, which was led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams. We saw the carnage that ensued when state troopers stormed the bridge and attacked the peaceful protesters with clubs and tear gas.
The violence of the attack was televised and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to address the nation. It also spurred the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Those images should communicate just how racist the U.S. was back then – and apparently still is. Jim Crow is apparently live and well. Clarence Thomas, a black supreme court justice married to a white woman, claimed the voting rights act doesn’t grant racial groups an entitlement to representation.
So think about that. You’re black, you live in the U.S., you’re a citizen, you work and pay taxes but oh, so sorry, the color of your skin doesn’t entitle you to a vote. Huh?
I remember the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, April 4, 1968. I was still in college. And at that point, I’d participated in a lot of protests against Vietnam and the other horrors that were ongoing. Two months later, on June 5, 1968, RFK met the same fate. & I think that was when I realized just how vital it was for WE THE PEOPLE to make our voices heard.
Now, more than ever, that collective voice and presence needs to be heard and seen by the thousands, as it has been in the No Kings protests. We’re in a war that trump started because he apparently feels it’s all a video game and. of course he’ll win the game even if he doesn’t have a clue what the hell he’s doing.
Well, WE THE PEOPLE are suffering the consequences. Our allies have deserted us. The price of gas and everything else is soaring. trump’s cabinet is as wacko as he is. RFK’s. nutty beliefs have brought back epidemics of measles, so whats next? A polio epidemic? At least puppy killer Kristi Noem and morally compromised Pam Bondi are gone. But what about weirdo Kash Patel? And ex-Fox news dude Pete Hegsworth, who seems to be playing the same video game as trump? & Tom Blanche, the ultimate trump sycophant: where did he stash his soul, his conscience? & Tulsi Gabbard, who is totally useless?
Today on FB, a photo of a woman on a beach in Fort Lauderdale came up. She wore a TRUMP 2028 cap and said she was freaking out all the liberals on the beach – which looked totally empty behind her. She said it with a grin of triumph and I thought: you’re completely brainwashed.
So if you’re one of those brainwashed people, I won’t interact with you, speak to you, or even count you among the human race. But hey, good luck in your journey to wherever.
