Geography Div (National Shame subsection)

Two weeks ago my wife and I visited the National Memorial For Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
At one point, I sat down and cried.
Every pillar hanging from the ceiling represents a US County where a lynching took place and is inscribed with the victim's names and the date of their murder.
There really aren't words adequate enough to describe the horror of what happened.

The Occasional Mid-Week Molly

Seems that secession is still alive and well down there in the Confederate Republic of Alabama.
Don't like that integration demanded by Brown vs Board of Education ? Fine, secede from the existing district to ensure yours is pure.  Simple, eh ?? No blah people, no problem,

• I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point -- race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything. 
- -  Molly Ivins

... and this ..........

• If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, "Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty." In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean. Children can be horribly logical.     -- Molly Ivins








Egads, how far we've come.