What turned up the temperature? what brought this coward to the boiling point? we re in an environment now where there s the expectation of grievance and hate for political gain. and we need to understand the wide reach of who s responsible for this. i think that s the first thing. the second thing is that we have to tell ourselves about your story about the march on washington. this extraordinary moment of august 28th 1963, is actually claimed by political violence. not only that extraordinary march in may of 1963, and in birmingham, where we saw bull connor bring up the fire hoses and the dogs, those dogs and fire hoses were directed towards children, amen. that was a children s march. and we think about the courage of who shot down on june 11th, right? when we think about that moment and we think about george wallace on june 11th, standing in front of the university of alabama, declaring his
And we think about the courage of who shot down on june 11th, right? when we think about that moment and we think about george wallace on june 11th, standing in front of the university of alabama, declaring his commitment to segregation, when we think about the violence that framed, the violence that preceded the march, and we think about the violence that answered the march, the bombings in 1963 that killed four little girls, but also the two boys that were killed, johnny robinson and john robinson was actually shot in the back by police officers. he was shot as he was on a bicycle by two eagle scouts. the violence of the moment. and if we tell ourselves a better story, a story, about how we ve never really come to terms with it, maybe we can understand more fully what we just experienced today. felt a long winded way of