In 1965 I was in the US Army at
Fort Benning Georgia where they were suddenly giving us riot training and in
March of that year they woke us up early in the morning and load us up on
trucks with barbwire on the front of it. We never went anywhere, but I was
always wondered what that was all about. Now I realize that it must have been
the march on Selma.
Even with all the reforms that have
happen since 1965 and the improvement in communications people seem more
misinformed than ever. Civil right leaders of today are hated not only in the
south, in the whole country. People just
asking for justice for blacks are called
all sort of names it can only be hoped that future generations will be more educated
so has to change the culture of this and many other countries.
Obama's
Selma speech was his best ever, if only people would listen. It should be
replayed just before November 2016 so people who tend not to vote therefore
giving their power away maybe will listen to him and vote.
