Life In Selma Alabama In 1966 For Black Citizens

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. The time is 1966. Hearing these incredible local African-American civil rights activists tell what they saw and how they wanted to change things gives a sense of just how courageous and how articulate they were. Many of us in the North as young people were following these people with admiration. It all has to do with sending online and doing what was required to get the right to vote. That's what you see in this documentary clip-a part of my archive.

[@talos2373]

Who is the guitarist singer? I liked that song and how unified the crowd was while he played and sang.

[@mima8862]

Still almost same in some places

[@RebSike]

No one deserves what these people went through, the actual institutional racism that tried to supress them since the reconstruction era was a cruel joke, and the generational poverty that still affects them (as it does all poor) today didnt help either. When Dr. King said that one day people woudn't be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, many black people didnt think it was possible, I feel for all of those folks who didnt live long enough to see the progress we've made, including Dr. King himself. So many people got the affirmation that being black wouldnt stifle your ambitions, no matter what height you aimed for, when Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and 2012. He made it as senator, He was elected by a good lead, and served eight full years without an assassination attempt. that couldnt be the story when MLK was born. No doubt he would be disappointed though as well in certain ways. The re-emergence of racial identity-politics by people of both skin colors and the way the democrats in cities have utterly failed the black communities there. As a Christian he'd probably be appalled by the ways in which the communities have degradated culturally, the amount of fatherless homes namely. I cant speak for him though.

[@RebSike]

Thomas Schneider ill watch that soon, I'm not saying that MLK was perfect, no one is. At the base level, his message about race and unity, at least the amalgamation of ideas that are presented as his message, that the average person knows and believes it to be, is on point and pretty in-line with the ideals this country was founded on. The idea that racism can only be destroyed peacefully, not with "eye for an eye" racial identity bs, is a damn good one. Also there's no such thing as "real" blacks, unless you want to define that one for me.