where vote willing be harder this year, this marks 50 years since freedom summer mississippi 1964. this very week marks 50 years since the three were killed in mississippi, and then they would not let schwerner and chaney be buried together because one is black and the other is white. the black man s gravestone stands there, like the american achievement that he died for, right? still standing, propped up, damaged, braced, chipped, pitted. we ve come to agree that they were heroes, right? today, the day the republicans replaced eric cantor who made a big show of re-enacting the marches at selma, and it was in his power and he didn t. today, when at least in public we agree that those young men 50 years ago are our heroes today, do we come to a new agreement about the voting rights that they died for? do we have the will to do that? it is 50 years since freedom
where vote willing be harder this year, this marks 50 years since freedom summer mississippi 1964. this very week marks 50 years since the three were killed in mississippi, and then they would not let schwerner and chaney be buried together because one is black and the other is white. the black man s gravestone stands there, like the american achievement that he died for, right? still standing, propped up, damaged, braced, chipped, pitted. we ve come to agree that they were heroes, right? today, the day the republicans replaced eric cantor who made a big show of re-enacting the marches at selma, and it was in his power and he didn t. today, when at least in public we agree that those young men 50 years ago are our heroes today, do we come to a new agreement about the voting rights that they died for? do we have the will to do that?
though he talked about it all the time. now of course he is soon to be former congressman eric cantor. the heart of the voting rights act is dead, and republican control of congress means that part of it will stay dead, at least for the foreseeable future. for now, the obama administration is using the bit that remains of the voting rights act to do what they can to prop up the law that way. hoping that the republicans in congress who don t want to bring it back, maybe they ll be embarrassed about that or maybe replaced in an election and maybe a future congress will reinstate that law that people died for. and this summer of 2014, heading towards this year s elections where vote willing be harder this year, this marks 50 years since freedom summer mississippi 1964. this very week marks 50 years since the three were killed in mississippi, and then they would not let schwerner and chaney be buried together because one is black and the other is white. the black man s gravestone stands th