https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-5-2023-sunday
"President Joe Biden spoke this afternoon in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the
58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when law enforcement officers tried to beat
into silence Black Americans marching for their right to have a say in the
government under which they lived. Standing at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which
had been named for a Confederate brigadier general, Grand Dragon of the Alabama
Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator who stood against Black rights, Biden said: “On
this bridge, blood was given to help ‘redeem the soul of America.’”
The story of March 7, 1965, commemorated today in Selma, is the story of
Americans determined to bring to life the principle articulated in the
Declaration of Independence that a government’s claim to authority comes from
the consent of the governed. It is also a story of how hard local authorities,
entrenched in power and backed by angry white voters, worked to make the
hurdles of that process insurmountable."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
