Crowds arrive in Selma for 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of people are gathering in Selma, Alabama to see President Barack Obama at the 50th anniversary of a landmark event of the civil rights movement.
Charter buses from across the nation are clogging traffic in the riverside town of 20,000.
It's a carnival atmosphere with vendors selling souvenirs commemorating the violent confrontation called "Bloody Sunday."
There's a parade, bands and historical programs before the nation's first black president speaks at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
In 1965, marchers crossing the bridge were beaten by police while demonstrating for voting rights.
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Bloody Sunday - Selma, Alabama 1965 (confrontations start at about 200 on video)
Seventy-two-year-old Madeline McCloud traveled overnight with a group of NAACP members from central Florida to get to Selma. She says she's both honoring the past and teaching young people about the importance of protecting civil rights.
Why do these retards call it "Bloody Sunday",when on any given Sunday in the black neighborhoods of Detroit,Chicago,Saint Louis,Camden,NJ,etc,etc,etc more black blood is spilled by other blacks than was spilled in Selma by whites?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
