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Historic NY

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4. The POTUS makes me cry...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 10:11 PM
Mar 2015

because the excuseholics here think they have nothing to fucking vote for.....I was in the south in 65 I know what I saw as a young white child..I never forgot..I wasn't allowed to even given my chosen occupation.


"Of course, our democracy is not the task of Congress alone, or the courts alone, or the President alone. If every new voter suppression law was struck down today, we’d still have one of the lowest voting rates among free peoples. Fifty years ago, registering to vote here in Selma and much of the South meant guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar or bubbles on a bar of soap. It meant risking your dignity, and sometimes, your life. What is our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? "

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President Obama Speaks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge: freshwest Mar 2015 #1
Thanks freshwest. sheshe2 Mar 2015 #2
Thanks for the pic and the words from TOD! freshwest Mar 2015 #3
The POTUS makes me cry... Historic NY Mar 2015 #4
This is so true! lovemydog Mar 2015 #5
+10000 treestar Mar 2015 #9
Thanks freshwest. lovemydog Mar 2015 #6
Thank you, freshwest. Kath1 Mar 2015 #7
Selma 1965. Blood Sunday. (Warning graphic violence) freshwest Mar 2015 #8
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