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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (263208)	7/22/2010 6:15:10 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

>>and oh, how far we have fallen<< Some have climbed, some have fallen. It's a matter of degree and a case-by-case thing. When MLK gave the "I Have a Dream" speech, 6 months earlier protersors (mostly black) were beaten in Selma marching towards the Pettis bridge. 3 schoolchildren were killed (Condoleeza Rice's classmates in Bible class) in a racially motivated bombing in Birmingham the same year. Within a year 3 civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The south was virtually exploding. 2 years later Shirley Sherrod's father was killed by a white farmer in Georgia (he was later acquitted by an all-white jury). The Watts riots broke out in LA after a case of police brutality. Malcolm X was murdered after splitting with Elijah Muhammed, in part because he no longer believed that the solution to racism was strict segregation and race wars. In 1966 and '67 there were enormous summer riots in ghettos in the north, the worst in Newark and Detroit. And after MLK was murdered in 1968 there were massive riots in nearly every large city in the US. So now some Right wing blogger creates a big flap because Sherrod's comments from 20 years ago were posted online, and a portion of them are purported to be racist (though the comments were cropped and deleted large and significant parts of the speech). We've fallen? Really? Our political leaders are clowns, and certainly have their racist tendencies. 1963 was no picnic, though, and either were the years that followed. Perspective is useful......