Just watched Mississippi Burning again...(pics)

[one_voice]

and it made me upset all over again. It was only 46 years ago that the story took place. That's really not that long ago.

And though we still have a long way to go, we've come so far....








Differences aside...pretty cool...huh?

[Jennicut]

1. One of my favorite movies and had a big impact on me as a teenager.

[SCantiGOP]

2. great movie but

History shows that Hoover was less than enthusiatic about going after the Klan. He saw the black activists as a bigger threat. Remember, he was convinced that MLK was a communist agent.

[one_voice]

3. Very true...

Isn't ironic that the Republicans want to "claim" MLK as a Republican...by today's Republican standards. I find that both funny and repulsive at the same time.

They conveniently forget he advocated for socialism. Selective memory, I guess.

[ParkieDem]

4. Very cool.

That we have gone from the Jim Crow era to electing an African-American president is truly an accomplishment, regardless of what you think of Obama.

A lot of this started with Douglas Wilder -- it's pretty amazing that, just 25 years after segregation, a state of the former confederacy elected an African-American as governor. Now, just 43 years after the last Jim Crow law was passed, we not only have an African-American president, but one who carried three states of the former confederacy.

I know that African-Americans are a huge voting bloc for Democrats, but I truly hope that one day it will not be this way - i.e., African-Americans achieve diversity in their political beliefs, and are looked upon as individual voters rather than painted with a broad brush. I sincerely hope that, one day in this country, we will be able to 100% fully look past race and judge people, as Dr. King said, by the content of their character by the color of their skin. I want to see a day when we can go to African-Americans and say, "you should vote for the Democratic candidate because of X," and not because of the color of their skin.

[one_voice]

5. Yup...

MLK had it right. Also I'd like to get passed the gender issue as well. I firmly believe that if Obama wasn't in the Oval office, Hillary would be. And, again, differences aside that would have been cool too.

I can't wait for the day we elect an atheist, or a gay person, once we've done that, then I truly believe we will be judging on character.