re: #24 ObserverArt

The parallels of Ferguson and Kent State are very interesting. Almost like time hasn’t changed. Similar political rhetoric. Political and Police grandstanding in support of each other. Outside agitators. National Guard. Stuffy white people worried about their world changing. Generation gaps. Commies. Socialists. Different legal viewpoints. Burned buildings used for fodder.

Probably a good chance with all that we will get a similar outcome. And it will suck because we never learn.

So sad that Tom Paxton’s song from 1965 is still relevant

We didn’t know said the congregation,
Singing a hymn in a church of white.
The Press was full lf lies about us,
Preacher told us we were right.
The outside agitators came.
They burned some churches and put the blame,
On decent southern people’s names,
To set our colored people aflame.
And maybe some of our boys got hot,
And a couple of ni**ers and reds got shot,
They should have stayed where they belong,
And preacher would’ve told us if we’d done wrong.

we didn’t know