Are you listening, Scalia?

I have much respect and fondness for Rep. John Lewis.
Chief Murphy is an honorable man. May his tribe increase.

Seeing him splattered with his own blood, like Jim Zwerg was (who appears to be picking broken teeth out of his mouth), is just sickening. I can't believe it took this long for someone in Alabama law enforcement to apologize to him.

Thanks for the photo, Faygo Kid.

brief brush with Mr. Lewis' and civil rights history when I snapped this photo:



I saw the air base and museum for the Tuskegee Airman on that same trip.

The Freedom Riders were completely within their Constitutional rights to sit wherever they wanted on that bus, to sit in any public area of the bus station that they liked, and to do so without harrassment or abuse. State and local authorities just stood back and let the violence happen.

That is what can happen when you let the states interpret and ignore laws as they see fit.

I'm happy to read that.

and thank you, Chief Murphy

I haven't seen you around in awhile; I hope you are well, democrank.

last year. About time!!

The big but is that it gives fuel to the Supreme Court argument that we are post-racial and do not need a Voter's Protection Law any more--because look at this police chief apologizing. See? This "proves" we do not need to have a national standard for voting, and certainly not in Alabama.

I have to say--I question the real motives of the Chief doing this at this crucial time when the story is that we are "past all that" and on the very week the Supremes are planning to gut the law.

that takes a lot. I prefer to think the man just wanted to right a wrong he's lived with for a long time. Sometimes, as witnessed on DU constantly, people can be nice just because that might be a part of our better natures. Just maybe it had bugged the Chief for a long time.

This police chief will be recieving all sorts of threats from radicalized right wing fox "news" fans.