SELMA - 50 years later

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Interesting, considering all the “outsiders” who bussed into Selma in 1965.  I don’t believe ‘this’ was the change the citizens of Selma, really wanted.  I also don’t believe this was the direction the citizens desired from acquiring voting rights and integration.  Changes begin at home with families teaching respect for all, understanding the real value of an education, and the lessons we should gain from learning history.  Without respect and understanding past mistakes, there can be no progress toward a civilized society where everyone works to achieve a common goal which protects citizens of that society.  “In unity there is strength”.  “A nation divided, will fall”.   

SELMA, Alabama FIFTY YEARS LATER

About 50 miles west of Montgomery - a town that seems to be destroying itself from within.

Here’s a brief overview of Selma in 2015:

In 2015, Selma is 80 percent black and now has a black mayor, a black chief of police, a black district attorney, a black school superintendent, a majority black city council, and a majority black police force.

In 2015, Selma City Schools are 97 percent black. Last year, the Alabama Department of Education’s Board of Education voted unanimously to take over Selma City Schools in the aftermath of a scathing state investigation.

In 2015, fifty years after the Voting Rights Act was passed, Selma has lost a third of its population, around 10,000 White people.

In 2015, 42 percent of the population of Selma lives in poverty, which is twice the state average in Alabama.

In 2015, Selma is represented in the US Congress by a black woman, Rep. Terri Sewell, in the Alabama House of Representatives by a black man, State Rep. Darrio Melton, and in the Alabama Senate by a black man, nine-term incumbent State Sen. Hank Sanders.

In 2015, Selma is the fourth most dangerous city in Alabama with the third highest number of murders per capita and the fourth highest number of property crimes.

In 2015, Selma is struggling with code enforcement on numerous blighted, abandoned homes.

In 2015, Selma is one of the worst cities in which to do business in Alabama.

In 2015, Selma is an epicenter of new HIV infections in rural Alabama. The HIV infection rate in Dallas County is 106.8 percent above the national average.So, the new and improved Selma in 2015 is plagued by extreme poverty, STDs, high crime, terrible schools, a terrible business climate, high unemployment, low property value, low civic engagement and racial strife by the likes of Faya Rose Toure. Yet the Voting Rights Act was unquestionably a huge success in Selma where blacks now occupy every public office which their numbers allow them to dominate.

'nuff said...

American Corruption

Rioting in Baltimore? Breaking into stores and destroying private property?  Geez, who'd a thunk? Didn't see that coming, did we?

Whatever happened to 'Disturbing the Peace?' The police here are the bad guys of course. That's the narrative being being created by our leftist media and the Obama administration.

When people break laws, resist arrest and disrespect our law enforcement officers THEY are the problem creators, NOT our Police Departments.

I was raised believing our government was run by the good guys. I no longer do. The bad guys are ruining this nation by design; chasing money, wealth and jobs to other countries where they have financial interests. In other words, Leftists have corrupted our national government.

'Blacklisted by History' is the story of one man's fight against America's enemies. M. Stanton Evans dedicates the well-researched book "For my mother who knew it all along..."

In forty-five chapters and six hundred and five pages he lays out the evidence of this corruption which began in  pre-World War Two America.

Stanton began this writing project to prove his mother was wrong about our State Department and government. In the process, like newborn kittens, his eyes were opened.

It's all pretty scary stuff to believe this has happened/is happening under our collective noses. Some will come away from reading the book believing it to be a figment of the author's imagination. Others will relate it to current events and begin to understand the "whys" of the current Department of State and government ineptitude.