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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJune 21, 1964. In Memory of 3 young men murdered in Mississippi
Freedom Summer volunteers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner.....we still fight this battle even today.
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cynatnite
(31,011 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)Lately I've heard . . . It doesn't exist anymore. Just a figment of our imaginations. I don't know what to believe anymore.
But 0- I thank those three men and countless others for their efforts to end Jim Crow and slavery by another name.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Big cities, esp. NYC, Stop and Frisk program, where police have admitted the purpose is to keep blacks "in their place"
the screamingly high rate of black incarceration, and the continuing war on drugs to justify it.
The repeated jerrymandering of minority districts
The repeated attempts to disenfranchise black voters, including those in the military.
The constant dog whistles of the Reich Wing, in various media formats.
You can believe it is still happening.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)You never gild the lily.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Claims that there is no racism in America anymore, so with that delusional mindset I can see them striking the 1965 Voter Right Act, section 5. This will open the door to more voter suppression especially in the South.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)anything happened there. Reagan the all time piece of shit.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)Waffen SS soldiers (at Bitburg, Germany) in May of 1985. A true piece of shit, not fit to shine the boots of the brave soldiers of the U.S., USSR and other allies who fought the Nazis, his political success an insult to their memory.
Blood pressure going up, so stopping for now. But thanks for remembering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitburg
zeemike
(18,998 posts)I was in the Navy at the time and was one of the few hundred sent to Meridian Mississippi to search for them.
I wrote about but it is on old DU
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zeemike/1
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Very interesting read.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)When I wrote it all out it brought back some memories..things I had not thought of in years...And I probably would not have done it had a Duer not encouraged me to.
there are some therapeutic things that happen here.
Loki
(3,825 posts)This period of time was very hard to live through. I was in high school and this particular incident really bothered me, to my soul. It was an awakening that put me on the path of my journey to where I am today.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)It may sound funny to some, but I thought that the problem was solved with Rosa Parks...when I went there I was shocked to learn the depth of the evil that existed in our own country.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I first heard the song from Magpie, who sing it here with Kim Harris:
But Harry Belafonte's version is also very moving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=sG6FVKBMOyU
Lyrics here: http://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=10728&lang=en