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Crowds arrive in Selma for 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary
AP ^ | March 7, 2015

Posted on 03/07/2015 9:52:58 AM PST by PROCON

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To: nascarnation
There will be plenty of banners and signs to honor MLK Jr.


21 posted on 03/07/2015 10:23:26 AM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: "fundamentally transformed" is a euphemism for "wrecked beyond repair.")
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To: PROCON

Uh, people aren’t there to see Obama.

Believe me.


22 posted on 03/07/2015 10:27:04 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: vladimir998; PROCON

” Supposedly a huge vanguard of Illegals is showing up to hijack the event. “

That ain’t good. Now the blacks will have direct competition looting the retail inventory.


23 posted on 03/07/2015 10:30:34 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Iron Munro

Cracks me up every time.


24 posted on 03/07/2015 10:35:18 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: ColdOne

Yep how much you wanna bet he starts off by saying “Some folks out there want to suppress the vote”


25 posted on 03/07/2015 10:36:31 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oliviaforever

I caught a hop on a C-130 from Pope AFB/Ft Bragg to Montgomery. Planes were going down to pick up Army troops
that made the march and take them back to Ft Bragg. I went to the Greyhound Bus station in Montgomery to catch a bus further south. Was all slicked up in class A’s. Bedlam at the bus station. Many had cashed return tickets in and spent that money also. Was center of attention for 15 or 20 minutes for were to get money for return tickets. Went to Dales Penthouse half block up hill and had a couple of drinks until time to board my bus.


26 posted on 03/07/2015 10:40:35 AM PST by TweetEBird007
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Probably more media there than ‘folks’.


27 posted on 03/07/2015 10:50:30 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Yeah. These days, most people living in this country would prefer a two hour movie with popcorn and a Diet Coke over a sweaty march and having to endure a speech by that blowhard, Al Sharpton.


28 posted on 03/07/2015 10:55:22 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal aliens are far superior to Americans. - So say the 'RATS and RINOs.)
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To: ColdOne
KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black Republican Woman)

Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,

"We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600's 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:

(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,

(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,

(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,

(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,

(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations,

(f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,

(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and

(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War, Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was "stolen" from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the "Miami Herald" and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.

29 posted on 03/07/2015 10:58:15 AM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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To: PROCON

Join fellow democrats relive the past! - be the first from YOUR neighborhood to come on down and turn a firehose on a group of blacks in SELMA!!!

*commemorative picture price - $35, +tax...


30 posted on 03/07/2015 11:08:34 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I am sure he will say how evil whitey is and how his new obamalaw will fix that.


31 posted on 03/07/2015 11:09:10 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

But didn’t she post a recipe in an Indian cookbook? What more proof do you need?


32 posted on 03/07/2015 11:13:47 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Self respecting blacks would let him know they do not agree.”

They should. The blacks brought over for slavery did not come over on their free will. Their story is the exact opposite of the illegals. If I was black I’d start another riot over that.


33 posted on 03/07/2015 11:16:50 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: PROCON

They’ve been busing in “Amnesty” supporters who are piggy backing this march as well. Seems the Amnesty supporters believe their plight is equal to the Rights fought for by the Black Community.

However the ‘Amnesty Supporters fail’ to recognize the blacks were citizens of this country..not “illegal aliens”.... there is a huge difference.


34 posted on 03/07/2015 11:25:18 AM PST by caww
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To: Rusty0604

Oh OK, sorry


35 posted on 03/07/2015 11:27:10 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: PROCON
Maybe the "demonstrators" will leave the place cleaner than what it was when they arrived? Maybe there will be no vandalism, robberies or other violent acts?

Maybe there will be a positive message that emanates from Selma, AL?

Maybe...

5.56mm

36 posted on 03/07/2015 11:35:27 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: ColdOne

Watch Obama Selmaize the US ,LOL


37 posted on 03/07/2015 11:37:38 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: stephenjohnbanker



38 posted on 03/07/2015 12:01:16 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: TweetEBird007

Do you believe the orders you were given were a violation of States’ Rights?


39 posted on 03/07/2015 12:02:34 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Makes you wonder why “Selma - The Movie” sucked so bad at the box office. Do most theaters accept EBT?
40 posted on 03/07/2015 12:05:43 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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