re: #168 HappyWarrior

I was asking myself thinking about the Selma 50th anniversary last week- would I have the courage to do that? I like to think I would have but knowing what people like John Lewis experienced, I just don’t know. The fact that people were actually murdered trying to help African Americans achieve civil rights tells you a lot. And that’s really not something you learn in school. Yes, you learn about the hardships that MLK and the others went through but not really about the murders and furthermore the alliance and sometimes participation of law enforcement in said murderers such as in the killing of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner.

What, to me, is even more incredible about John Lewis is that Selma wasn’t his first rodeo. He KNEW what was going to happen, having been a Freedom Rider 4 years earlier, and having been beaten and arrested then.