2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie supporters. Please stop promoting that Hillary is loosening her stance on cannabis. [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Those blacks were the ones commiting the true acts of valor along with the whites who went down south to sign up voter, sit in, to protest in the heart of racism. To die on a back road of mississippi, at the hands of racist whites. Those who were kicked, beaten, hosed and abused. And continued the fight. They are my heros. Just marching in a parade or a freedom march does not qualify for me. True terror must have been experienced and the fight continued for it to be valorious in my mind. For blacks who fought, that terror did not leave when they decided to go away, back to white places, it was there, birth to death, but yet they fought. And the struggle continues.
It is not my place to placate or give continuous gratitude or assuage, or commend constantly while my struggle is everyday, and theirs only on the days of their choosing.