@RealDonMarshall I say this as someone who personally has a lot of value in a home, but I still see the issue, and would personally rather have people be able to have decent places to live than have so much value wrapped up in real estate.
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
The sheriff jabbed her in the neck with his club while she queued to register to vote.
She was fifty-four years old. She turned round and punched him so hard he went down.
Three deputies put her on the ground. Annie Lee Cooper.
She had tried to register before. She had already been sacked from her job at a nursing home for trying.
On that morning in January 1965 about a hundred and fifty people were queuing outside the Dallas County courthouse in Selma.
Sheriff Jim Clark was working the line as he always did, moving people on.
He pushed her. She told him he should not have done that. He jabbed her with the billy club. And she hit him. Properly. He went to the pavement.
The photograph of her being held down by three men while Clark stood over her with his club raised ran nationally and is one of the images that moved Selma onto the front pages in the weeks before the bridge.
She was jailed for eleven hours.
She lived in Selma for another fifty years, voted in every election she could, and in 2008 stood in line again, at ninety-six, to vote for a Black president.
She said she would have waited all day. She died in 2010 at ninety-nine.
Fifty-four years old, in a queue, with a club in her neck. And she swung.
The Nazis also sought to purge society of the "unfit," and "undesirable." By the end, more than a quarter million German citizens with physical disabilities or mental illnesses were systematically murdered.
The first steps down that road looked exactly like this.
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. https://t.co/niNhjdJan6
Reflecting Pool disgrace: As a former United States Attorney, I am stunned that any federal judge in the United States of America would ever have to write these words.
We can’t normalize this evil.
I'm very excited that Pete Hegseth is starting the Department of Religious Affairs. Since he married two of his mistresses and his family still seems very religious, I assume his own affairs were very wholesome and religious.