I lived in Selma in 1966, at Craig AFB. It was a wonderful place to grow up - the kind of place where kids needed to start home when the street lights came on.
Now? The old base housing has been largely abandoned. There is a gang called the Craig AFB gang. Murders. Drugs. The population has declined 30%. 2 out of 3 whites have left, and it has gone from 50% black to 80% black.
“Fitts, the Selma historian, said the trend was hastened by a controversy involving Selma city schools superintendent Norward Roussell. Roussell, the city’s first black superintendent of schools, did away with a controversial tracking system that grouped students by their ability.
The majority white members of the city school board voted not to renew Roussell’s contract in December 1989, and the black school board members walked out, the New York Times reported.
Two months later, the white majority voted fire Roussell, sparking protests by black leaders and student sit-ins that resulted in closures at all of the city’s schools.
By the time the schools reopened, many of the white parents had removed their children from the city schools, Fitts said.
“My daughter spent the week off making candy to share with her 19 best friends, most of whom were no longer enrolled when she got back,” Fitts said, calling the resegregation of Selma’s schools “the bitterest defeat” of his life.
Today, just 2 percent of the students in Selma city schools are white.”
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/as_selma_rocks_hollywood_white.html
That is what liberals call “progress”.
Given his history of lying, I have my doubts about his story in Selma. Was he really beaten or did he just “say” he was beaten to advance himself.