TBT.... "What makes America Great!"
Archie Bunker (How TV has changed) 1971-1978 All in the family
"What makes America Great!" Archie Bunker
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TBT.... "What makes America Great!"
Archie Bunker (How TV has changed) 1971-1978 All in the family
‘Make America Great Again’ Billboard Sparks Controversy in Miss.
Here’s the thing: The billboard from "For Freedoms" seems more triggering for black
people than a wake-up call for white people. If being subversive is the point, it’s a fail.
people than a wake-up call for white people. If being subversive is the point, it’s a fail.
At first glance, the “Make America Great Billboard” on Highway 80 in Pearl, Miss., right outside of Jackson, looks as if it was bought and paid for by the Klansmen and/or Fraternal Order of Police that endorsed President-elect Donald Trump.
But looks can be deceiving.
WJTV.com reports that the billboard was paid for by For Freedoms, “the first artist-run super PAC,” which believes “it’s time for artists to become more involved in the political process.”
The billboard shows the iconic image of the Rev. Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who was then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, trying to lead freedom fighters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. They were all stopped by Alabama state troopers.
The incident, which became known as “Bloody Sunday,” took place on March 7, 1965. It was a demonstration for voting rights, but also a call for justice for Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, who was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Fowler.
For many young activists of this generation, Jackson’s murder was to the civil rights movement what Michael Brown Jr.’s state-sanctioned execution was for the Ferguson, Mo., uprising.
In the end, after Sheriff Jim Clark deputized random white men to join in violently halting the march, there were many people injured by billy clubs and tear gas. Civil rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson was among those critically wounded.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 would go into effect later that year.
As one might imagine, Selma is a sacred place for many black people in the United States, and this is sacred imagery. The immediate assumption by many people was that white supremacists were responsible for the billboard, but based on the content of the For Freedoms website, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
SOURCE: http://www.theroot.com/articles/cul...rica-great-again-billboard-pearl-mississippi/
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