John Lewis, civil rights icon, has died at 80

[TitoFan]

This wasn't the 1800's when slavery was a "legal" and accepted way of life.

This was in fucking 1965, barely over 50 years ago.

I've known about the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King most of my life. But I didn't know much about John Lewis..... and I CERTAINLY didn't know the details of that first Selma bridge march in 1965.



Fucking brutal... how fucking POLICE OFFICERS descended onto a peaceful crowd...... ran over them..... and beat them unmercifully.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.



Had I been born a black person in the 1940's-'50s and been subjected to that kind of racist, segregationist shit....... I'd eventually have gotten lynched, because I would've been one rebellious, belligerent muthafukker.



It is MIND_BOGGLING how the evils of the past actually lasted SO FAR into modern times.

Which in turn makes it more understandable how there can STILL be so many fucking ignorant people when it comes to race and racial relations.

In the perspective of human history, this march was JUST THE OTHER DAY.

Affirmative Action be damned.

Band-Aids do not cure the ills of society. That's why I continue to believe that FUCK all these meaningless changing of syrup brands and old movie censoring.

What is needed is some good old fashioned "roll-up-your-sleeves" and "let's get to work" efforts to right the wrongs of the not so distant past.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

I'm all for it, whatever it takes, whatever works, cuz welfare is just another form of slavery, and it was deliberately done to perpetuate the evil. Slavery has never ended.