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Monday, August 19, 2024

This Thursday, when Kamala Harris formally accepts the Democratic nomination for president, is the 60th anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony to the 1964 convention in an unsuccessful effort to get Black delegates from Mississippi seated.

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Sixty summers ago, Fannie Lou Hamer told millions of Americans watching the Democratic National Convention that 16 bullets came into her home after she tried to vote in Mississippi.

President Lyndon B. Johnson called a hasty press conference to get television news to cut away from her testimony.

His ploy failed. The evening news featured the sharecropper detailing the violence against her and other Black Mississippians who joined the civil rights movement. "Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?" she asked.

On Aug. 22, the 60th anniversary of that testimony, another Black woman, Kamala Harris, is expected to make history when she takes the stage as the Democratic Party's nominee for President.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-08-18 07:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Now Mississippi has a two tier"just us" system and not a peep from DOJ.

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-08-18 07:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

... the 60th anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony to the 1964 convention in an unsuccessful effort to get Black delegates from Mississippi seated. ...

And, Mississippi has changed from then... how?

Six Former Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Sentenced for Torturing and Abusing Two Black Men (March 2024)
www.justice.gov

... Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced this week for torturing and abusing two Black men in Rankin County, Mississippi.

Senior District Judge Tom Lee sentenced the defendants to terms in prison ranging from 10 to 40 years. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-18 11:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So we are completely forgetting about Obama now, got it.

The reality is that the events of 60 years ago have become a rarity. It has been replaced with a Dem party who wants inequality and only equity. A Dem party who wants race to stay at the forefront of politics to ensure race issues always exist so they get votes. There are many real-world examples of politicians who run something fighting to ensure that something stays relevant, and this is just the next version of it.

"And, Mississippi has changed from then... how?"

It's incredibly easy to tell how it has changed but since you can't bother to look at the situation objectively, you continue to spread propaganda to ensure race stays an issue. First off, a news story like that would probably not have even made the news back then. If it did, it wouldn't have been to spread news, it would have been to spread hate. Additionally, those events were much more common but not reported, which was proven by a professor in the 90s which I can't remember his name now but I remember his research. Secondly, how any black people have killed white people? That number has increased significantly since 60 years ago. And, there is evidence in many cases they targeted the white person because they looked like an average white person who has money.

The fact you even try to insinuate that little has changed since 60 years ago is the entire problem. Today, we have a race of people who are struggling to do for themselves. Back then, we had a race of people who had no option to do for themselves. It's a completely different battle, one that still includes a little racism but has more to do with geographical culture and access to resources they need. But Dems are too busy fighting the battles of 60 years ago and not modernizing and fighting the modern battles we face today. Which is very sad for a group of people who call themselves progressive.

#4 | Posted by humtake at 2024-08-20 11:57 AM | Reply

The fact you even try to insinuate that little has changed since 60 years ago is the entire problem.

#4 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

The fact that Donald Trump is a racist and you go along with that is the entire problem.

Yes, a lot has changed in sixty years. But not him and not you.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-20 12:00 PM | Reply

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