/* "A Monument to The KKK?" Petitioning Selma City Council This petition will be delivered to: Selma City Council Cecil Williamson President, Selma City Council Susan Keith http://www.change.org/petitions/selma-city...
People know Selma, Alabama as a city where Dr. King fought for civil rights. Selma was the launching point for pivotal protests that hurtled the voting rights movement into the national spotlight. It is also a city of tragedy: thousands of students, religious leaders, and families fighting for civil rights in Selma were arrested, injured, or brutally killed.
I grew up in Selma. Now, as a community organizer, I think often about the sacrifices of the people who lived here before me. I was outraged and ashamed to learn that Selma's city council is sitting idly by as a local neo-Confederate group expands a public monument to a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest...
"It Is Our Responsibility To Act and Support The Government Representative Who Represents YOU and YOUR Economical Health and Welfare - Now and In The Future... So Where Should You Place Your Vote? They Who Wish To Once Again See You and Me Put Back Into Our (So-Called) Place Have Already Told Us What They Are Going To Do (They're Already Doing It) - Didn't They?"
Good Post Brother Greg, I don't think anybody of sound mind will sit idly by to see a monument expanded to the KKK knowing the implications it will bring...
[Forrest: 'I DID NOT' Forrest further stated that '..he thought the Organization (Klan) started in middle Tennessee, although he did not know where. It is said I started it.'
Asked by Sen. Scott, 'Did you start it, Is that true?'
Forrest: 'No Sir, it is not.'
Asked if he had heard of the Knights of the white Camellia, a Klan-like organization in Louisiana,
Forrest: 'Yes, they were reported to be there.'
Senator: 'Were you a member of the order of the white Camellia?'
Forrest: 'No Sir, I never was a member of the Knights of the white Camellia.'
Asked about the Klan :
Forrest: 'It was a matter I knew very little about. All my efforts were addressed to stop it, disband it, and prevent it....I was trying to keep it down as much as possible.' ...]
/* Hi Sister Jen Fad: Ya know, it makes me sick to have to look at sh..(Crap) like this. But in order to deal (fight/defend against) with your enemy, you have to know your enemy. It would seem obvious that the white power movement is up and running and alive and well - we'd better be on our P's and Q's... Can you dig where the romney movement is coming from? This epoch of their diabolical attack smacks us all (Black, White, Jew, Muslim, Christian, Old, Young, Middleclass, Poor, Latino, Asian, Irish, Italian, Amish, Buddhist, etc.) right in the face, yes? They've taken away the right to vote, They want to sell Social Security, They've taken away the cash benefit to welfare recipients, they threaten to take away the food-stamp program, and childcare as we know it. What else are you willing to let them take?
I'm hoping to see a major Uprising of the People in This Lifesaving Struggle!
What are you (the public at large) prepared to do about it?
