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Harris to mark ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma
The Associated Press ^ | March, 6, 2022

Posted on 03/06/2022 3:52:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Alabama on Sunday as the nation marks a defining moment in the fight for the right to vote, a trip that comes as congressional efforts to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act have faltered.

Harris is traveling to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Harris will visit with civil rights leaders before speaking at the foot of the bridge. The bridge, named for a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader, has become an enduring symbol of the civil rights movement.

Harris will also take part in the annual event’s symbolic march across the bridge.

Several other members of President Joe Biden’s administration will also attend the event, including Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: brown; democrats; kamala; kneepads; marxists; willie
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1 posted on 03/06/2022 3:52:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...efforts to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act have faltered."

Do they mean to suggest that the 1965 Voting Rights Act was nullified by the Supreme Court, or that Congress voided it?
Is this true?

2 posted on 03/06/2022 3:55:12 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So she’s African-American today... How convenient.


3 posted on 03/06/2022 3:55:23 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good time to bring up white supremacy and race in this country? yea any time is a good time especially when you are thinking about the presidency and how little you have in your basket and empty head to get you there


4 posted on 03/06/2022 3:58:24 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun
Good time for some remedial reading...

The Big Lie: The Two Major American Political Parties Switched Sides on Race

Unfounded Loyalty: An In Depth Look Into The Love Affair Between Blacks And Democrats by Wayne Perryman

5 posted on 03/06/2022 4:05:07 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's and America's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She gotta keep whoring for the Grievance Industry.


6 posted on 03/06/2022 4:14:55 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kommie Harris...a gal who's always done her best work in the dark.
7 posted on 03/06/2022 4:16:19 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...yet Jim Crow laws maintained segregation and disenfranchised black Americans.”

There was a large turnout of black voters in the 1964 gubernatorial election is Louisiana.

Jim Crow laws were a Democrat party initiative.

History has been blatantly revised and concretized into fiction.


8 posted on 03/06/2022 4:18:37 AM PST by odawg
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To: ronnie raygun

Hey, John Lewis wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, either.


9 posted on 03/06/2022 4:18:53 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Psalm 73

Shelby County v. Holder


10 posted on 03/06/2022 4:19:19 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Gay State Conservative

Her longest-held position was horizontal...

I got a million of ‘em!


11 posted on 03/06/2022 4:26:06 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As Brandon’s “Border Czar”, will Obamala proceed from Selma directly to the US/Mexico border to review the situation there?

I will have to ask the Magic 8-Ball for an answer. It’s more reliable than the Associated Press.


12 posted on 03/06/2022 4:27:09 AM PST by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: mewzilla

This is so old and tired.

Reverse psychology isn’t going to work even with 95 percent of them.

And what’s the other point? Republicans want to put them on a plantation, since they “switched views?’

It was a gradual change in both parties with the interference of the federal government and demographics since the war.


13 posted on 03/06/2022 4:30:04 AM PST by sumuam
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Instead go to Chicago to mark ‘BLOODY WEEKEND’ where a democrat administration presides over multiple murders of blacks by blacks.

But they can blame Whitey for Selma. But can’t blame Whiteys for weekend slaughter.


14 posted on 03/06/2022 4:41:10 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Last I heard, Kamasutra was being dispatched across the Big Pond to bring order & peace to the Ukraine-Russia ‘war’?!


15 posted on 03/06/2022 4:43:11 AM PST by Qiviut (🍊 #standup "Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe they will pull that old racist bridge over to the ground that’ll show everybody. Destroying property in their own neighborhood well that’s a given.


16 posted on 03/06/2022 4:50:24 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
she should visit the Mexico border, it's pretty bloody there with the deaths related to drugs and the child trafficking.
17 posted on 03/06/2022 4:51:55 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I now find stories like this to be simply amusing. The race hustlers attempt to rip a scab off a scar.


18 posted on 03/06/2022 4:53:20 AM PST by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: gundog
Man, you're good!

So, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented.

Now I can see what the problem is....

19 posted on 03/06/2022 5:02:16 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democrats and their forefathers have been on the wrong side of race relations for not that far from 500 years. For all that time they kept Blacks
down for their benefit. They still do today.

Who was responsible for Bloody Sunday? None other…. So nice the fake
sister will scoot on in on the action to pretend her party has always backed the
Blacks. Well,… into a corner? Yes.

Now the franchise on racism was stagnating. It was time to pump in some
New blood. By golly, it was White blood. Now Democrats could go on
graduating Black children that couldn’t read or do math, and con them
into thinking every White Republican was a systemic racist.

It was a grand plan. It was so good, that it didn’t matter that White
Leftists would be grouped in. After all k-12 and graduate schools would be teaching them to hate their parents and even themselves.

Everyone hates everyone else.

Democrats: Hate is job one. Their job is done.


20 posted on 03/06/2022 5:18:22 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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