A Bridge for Sale
8th March 2015
Yesterday President Obama spoke at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in observation of the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery marches. The White House has posted the text of Obama’s speech here and the video below. I encourage interested readers to check out the text or the video for themselves.
Assuming you have a strong stomach.
President Obama began by paying tribute to Rep. John Lewis, whom he identified as “one of [his] heroes.” Lewis is his hero for more than one reason. In 1965 Lewis was part of the march across the bridge; today he is a ranking Democratic hack protecting the lawlessness of the Obama administration. In Lewis we can trace the fate of the civil rights movement over the past 50 years.
It is with the Civil Rights movement of the 60s that we started the long slow painful slide down the razor blade of Victis Triumphantes, whereby who ever gets to play the role of victim automatically wins any argument, dispute, or pot o’ money that is available.