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The swell hasn't started. The show is just about to REALLY begin
The swell hasn't started. The show is just about to REALLY begin
Good thing im prepared, looks like its ganna be a good harvey
Heres the pictures I can't get to be straight... fuck you icmag.
FTOG
The fan I moved up to make room for hte glues. Those glues under the fan are on day 5 so im in for some STRETCH WARS! UNGUARD!
this mornin - their evenin
ya fuck the server for being a douche about the pictures... its been happening to others i think too.
The swell hasn't started. The show is just about to REALLY begin
Good thing im prepared, looks like its ganna be a good harvey
Heres the pictures I can't get to be straight... fuck you icmag.
FTOG
The fan I moved up to make room for hte glues. Those glues under the fan are on day 5 so im in for some STRETCH WARS! UNGUARD!
this mornin - their evenin
ya fuck the server for being a douche about the pictures... its been happening to others i think too.
I thought you killed this thread lol
Just asking. Room looks good!
Lyr
Plants look great!
You'll have better luck w the photos if you resize them before you ul them. 600 x 900 is usually good. (People uploading a bunch of 6MB photos is why they reduced the # of images per post to 5.).
Plants look great!
You'll have better luck w the photos if you resize them before you ul them. 600 x 900 is usually good. (People uploading a bunch of 6MB photos is why they reduced the # of images per post to 5.).
in veg lol 
Turns out their from LA, have 3 sons my age.
Love the garden, and appreciated all the work I did for them on the unit.
Few peeks into the room, zero questions.
Used some Ona Pro Gel <3 and put the reveg glue stinker in the closet with the corpses.
Now its DAB DAB DAB TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also came up on a bunch of recs, like I can start a 20k tmrw
Now its just finding a transmission to fix my car, cause 1k for a used tranny and the install, sounds like a headache, not a fix.
Im hungry
Love the garden, and appreciated all the work I did for them on the unit.
Few peeks into the room, zero questions.
Used some Ona Pro Gel <3 and put the reveg glue stinker in the closet with the corpses.
Now its DAB DAB DAB TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also came up on a bunch of recs, like I can start a 20k tmrw
Now its just finding a transmission to fix my car, cause 1k for a used tranny and the install, sounds like a headache, not a fix.
Im hungry
No questions, Pro Ona Gel FTW!
No questions, Pro Ona Gel FTW!
I don't even have an oucne of flowers for myself... all my patients stopped going to the clubs and come here.
I got a few calls from some local extract artists for lbs of material to enter into the cannabis cup
I can't wait for Feb 1st. DAY 63!!!!
I think i'll be taking down cookie tops this weekend tho, day 56-58
and I think burning desire should come down early too, she hermed on me last time I ran her 63 days so im going to aim for 60
Got the pre 98 bubba kush... verified for you weinies lol
No questions, Pro Ona Gel FTW!
I don't even have an oucne of flowers for myself... all my patients stopped going to the clubs and come here.
I got a few calls from some local extract artists for lbs of material to enter into the cannabis cup
I can't wait for Feb 1st. DAY 63!!!!
I think i'll be taking down cookie tops this weekend tho, day 56-58
and I think burning desire should come down early too, she hermed on me last time I ran her 63 days so im going to aim for 60
Got the pre 98 bubba kush... verified for you weinies lol
Not my words. All my black friends are really pathetic right now, they are so blind.
Not my words. All my black friends are really pathetic right now, they are so blind.
A few thoughts on the movie 'Selma'. First and foremost go see it..Again, I repeat GO SEE THE MOVIE.. It's powerful. It's moving..It's inspiring.. It opens the doors for deeper and more critical conversations. At a time where we have the rewriting of text books in many states that completely erase movements, heroes and sheroes like the ones depicted in Selma, this movie takes on added importance.
At a time when we have states like Arizona going full tilt in actually banning and removing books from the classroom and have made it unlawful to have ethnic studies taught in the classroom, which they are now attempting to expand to include Hip Hop, Selma is important.
At a time when we are consistently bombarded with white savior type movies and narratives that downplay and marginalize Black agency coupled with an onslaught of buffoonery and clownish reality shows neatly packaged, uplifted and sold to us and the world at large as primary examples of 'Black culture', Selma is important.
At a time where millions of our kids are subjected to oftentimes mandated, backward, ill-intentioned programs like 'No Child Left Behind' and 'Common Core' which are seemingly designed to suppress critical thinking, eradicate imagination and get them to be better consummate consumers and workers vs innovators, owners and entrepreneurs, Selma is important.
For those of us who are students of history or have been blessed with parents, relatives or key individuals in our lives who taught us, shaped our thinking and directed us to materials and resources that provided a richer and 'more accurate' political and social context of the issues and accounts connected to Selma, we have a responsibility to use this movie as a teaching tool.
We have responsibility to to take the excitement this movie has generated and turn folks on to all the people, concepts and outlying narratives directer Ava DuVernay weaves in and out of the movie...
We should be digging deeper into the scene that depicts Malcolm X coming to Selma and meeting with Coretta Scott King. We should be asking 'How did King and X's philosophy compliment each other?' In the movie King is shown saying the tactics he deployed resulted in real change. But as Malcolm notes in the movie perhaps that was possible because those in power feared him and the militant type of approach he represented. Why not have serious discussion on that?
We should really focus on the outright brutality and the repression shown in the film. Let's not take it for granted. Let's explore what Terrorism in the United States looked like and many would argue still looks like 50 years later. We had churches being bombed and people being killed with impunity. We also had ordinary folks who were willing to risk life, limb and freedom to get rights we take for granted today. How does what happened then mirror or differ from whats happening today when so many of our people are being killed by police?
We should be having robust discussions about the role former FBI director J Edgar Hoover and his Cointel-Pro program played not disrupting and destroying the Civil Rights and Black Liberation movements but also the depth in which it reached. In the movie its accurately shows how disrupting and destroying families was an important aspect used by the FBI. Excellent documentaries like Cointe-Pro 101 by the The Freedom Archives underscore this fact.
If you look on line you can find the documentary 'How the FBI Sabotaged Black America' , that can provide additional crucial information. We need to discuss domestic surveillance back in 1965 and domestic surveillance today and ask why that issue has not been resolved. We need to ask why is it accepted in some circles in 2015?
In the film we hear discussion about what took place in Albany, Georgia when Civil rights leaders confronted police chief Laurie Pritchett. In the film King asks if the police chief in Selma, Jim Clark was like Pritchett or Bull Connor?. It informs the strategy for how leaders approach Selma.
For us watching we should look into how those in power adapted to King's strategy of filling jails and neutralized his attempts to win justice.In the PBS series 'Eyes on the Prize' episode 4 called "No Easy Walk', Pritchett talks about how he read Dr King's book and found a way to redo mass arrests and not have it impact the cities operations. he rendered Kings strategy useless. We should be discussing how those tactics work today?
We should be looking up figures like James Lee Jackson who shot and killed by Alabama State troopers and understand what he meant to Movement. We should be exploring the killing of white religious leader James Reeb and how that galvanized the nation and led to people like former SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Toure) pointing out the inherent racism of America that would sit quietly when Black people like Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed fighting for freedom but be up in arms and ready to make change when the victim is white.
We should be exploring Diane Nash who was labeled in the movie as a female agitator and only has one line but was a young, college age, shrewd, fearless and important strategist for the Civil Rights Movement. She was also a primary architect in the freedom rides and sit ins that took place in the years leading up to Selma. She was someone who faced off with mayors and was arrested dozens of time and was willing to go to jail while pregnant in her attempts to win important rights.. An entire film could and should be made about her.
Another gem Selma brings to light are the tensions and disagreements that King and members of his SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) had with SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee). In the film SCLC are the centerpiece, but there is lots to say about the important role SNCC played historically in the Black Liberation struggle as well as in the crucial groundwork they laid down in Selma doing voting rights work before King and SCLC arrived.
There's lots to be said about more militant approach was adapting at the time vs the non-violent strategy employed by King. And while the movie doesn't go too deep into SNCC, Selma can and should inspire us to dig deep and learn more about them as with the other aforementioned leaders and organizations brought forth in the movie.
In a recent conversation good friend and historian professor Jared Ball encourages us to read 'Making of Black Revolutionaries' by James Forman who is shown in the film and was the executive director of SNCC. He also notes that the downplaying of SNCC is reflective of a larger trend in which far too often militant aspects of the Civil Rights and Black Freedom struggles are eclipsed.
To underscore his point of systemic erasing, Dr Ball noted that in the film James Forman's last name is never mentioned and he was never given a text summary at the end of the film as others did. He also pointed out that the total exclusion and not referencing Carmichael/Ture and Ella Baker at all is simply inexcusable.
SNCC should not be seen as just some fly by note organization that only marched. They were astute organizers who stuck around and built with with community weeks and months at a time.. They played a crucial role in Freedom Summer of 64. They ran freedom schools.
We should be exploring the organizing and voter registration work that Kwame and SNCC folks did during and after the Selma marches in Klan invested Lowndes County which led to the formation of the Black Panther political party which is different then the Black Panther party that would later be formed in Oakland with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
I would add that the PBS 'Eyes on the Prize' series in particular episodes 3 'Ain't Scared of Your Jails' which deals with the Freedom Rides, Episode 4 'No Easy Walk' which focuses on SCLC and SNCC and the campaign they did in Albany Georgia as well as Episode 6 'Bridge to Freedom' which focuses on Selma are good materials to check out. I'll try and post links in the comment section of this post.
What I feel is important about showing this tension between the two organizations (SCLC and SNCC), is that at the end of the day they managed to work together and show unity. Ava DuVernay accurately brings this to light in the film. In the 'Eyes on the Prize' episode on Selma, they show James Forman at a press conference talking about this issue directly and how they were united.
There are too many gems to cite that are excellently highlighted in Selma that we should be building on. There's no excuse not to especially now the movie is being made free for students in the 7th, 8th and 9th grade in many cities.
The other night I saw a large group of students from Oakland's Castlemont High attending. Afterwards those students stood around in the lobby and had a discussion on the film. Today (Sat Jan 17th ) at Oakland's Grand Lake, they are having a special screening followed by a discussion..At a time when we have so many protests, unrest and inevitable growing pains around movements to put an end to police terror, discussions around movement building generated by Selma are important and surely needed.
With regards to Selma being snubbed by the Oscars I agree wholeheartedly with Spike Lee, 'F-- 'Em' The academy deserves an unapologetic middle finger and at the same time, this snub should serve as inspiration for us to not look for validation from institutions that time and time again marginalize and ridicule us and our accomplishments.
If we are going to have award shows, perhaps its time to revisit and revitalize the Oscar Michaeux Awards that were started by the late Ava Montague of San Francisco and had a nice run in the late 80s early 90s..
The primary push back on Selma within the mainstream circles centers around how DuVernay depicts Kings relationship with President Lyndon Johnson. Folks seemed upset that King was shown as someone who stood on his own two feet, was uncompromising and actually pushed, defied and agitated the President to do the right thing with regards to bringing into fruition the Voting Rights Act.
Even more troubling is some brought into the notion that Johnson lead the Civil Rights Movement and directed King and was the brain power behind the marches on Selma. They point to a taped phone call Johnson had with King as proof positive. DuVernay saw such assertions as 'jaw dropping'.
Congressman John Lewis who at the time (1965) was a member of SNCC and prominently featured in the film recently penned an opt ed, for the LA Times rebuffing that erroneous notion..
He writes as follows; "Were any of the Selma marches the brainchild of President Johnson? Absolutely not. If a man is chained to a chair, does anyone need to tell him he should struggle to be free? The truth is the marches occurred mainly due to the extraordinary vision of the ordinary people of Selma, who were determined to win the right to vote, and it is their will that made a way".
As for the phone call, Lewis notes: "the president knew he was recording himself, so maybe he was tempted to verbally stack the deck about his role in Selma in his favor. The facts, however, do not bear out the assertion that Selma was his idea. I know. I was there. Don't get me wrong, in my view, Johnson is one of this country's great presidents, but he did not direct the civil rights movement."
The critiques around President Johnson and his relationship to King is telling especially when it comes from folks who heaped praise upon films like Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' where actor Daniel Day-Lewis who played Lincoln was hailed for his groundbreaking work.
The film went on to win lots of Golden Globe and Academy Awards. When it was pointed out 'this great film' had omitted former enslaved Africans turned freedom fighters and staunch abolitionists, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth who played crucial roles in pushing Lincoln to address the issue of slavery, it was dismissed as 'no big deal'.
'Its just a movie not a documentary' some claimed, even as it was being hailed as a a cinematic masterpiece all should watch to learn about Lincoln. People were told the story was about Lincoln not Douglass or Sojourner and thus not central to the storyline of the movie. The omission of Douglass is a salient point Lewis makes in his op ed.
The bottom line, is Selma is not a 'white saviour' type film. It doesn't have a prominent white character that saves the day for the 'needy helpless Negro'. Sadly that becomes a problem for some because goes against the popular narrative many have come to hold. Maybe the angst that many feel around King being so uncompromising in the movie was that its a tactic we should be using today with all our elected officials. King had a good relationship with Lyndon B Johnson and yet in the movie he pushed him and pushed him hard. Should we not have and be doing that with President Obama and other elected officials we like and admire or have good relationships with?
For those who suggest King wasn't that aggressive and uncompromising as shown in the film, explain how it was that King went hard in the paint around the issue of the Vietnam war angering president Johnson as well as other prominent Civil Rights leaders including folks he was closest too.
People love King now, but forget he was absolutely despised in 1968 and publicly skewered by many because he stuck to his principles and made the important international connection between the war in Vietnam and the war at home. King in his final days said time and time again this was not about being popular, getting a check or being friends with the President, it was about justice and doing whats right. How does that apply today in our collective actions?
Selma is a dope movie that hopefully leads to more exploration into our past which is then juxtaposed with what is going on the freedom movements today. Selma was 50 years ago and we still have many of the same problems including a return of some of the egregious tactics used to stop us from voting which led to a Selma Movement in the first place.
Not my words. All my black friends are really pathetic right now, they are so blind.
A few thoughts on the movie 'Selma'. First and foremost go see it..Again, I repeat GO SEE THE MOVIE.. It's powerful. It's moving..It's inspiring.. It opens the doors for deeper and more critical conversations. At a time where we have the rewriting of text books in many states that completely erase movements, heroes and sheroes like the ones depicted in Selma, this movie takes on added importance.
At a time when we have states like Arizona going full tilt in actually banning and removing books from the classroom and have made it unlawful to have ethnic studies taught in the classroom, which they are now attempting to expand to include Hip Hop, Selma is important.
At a time when we are consistently bombarded with white savior type movies and narratives that downplay and marginalize Black agency coupled with an onslaught of buffoonery and clownish reality shows neatly packaged, uplifted and sold to us and the world at large as primary examples of 'Black culture', Selma is important.
At a time where millions of our kids are subjected to oftentimes mandated, backward, ill-intentioned programs like 'No Child Left Behind' and 'Common Core' which are seemingly designed to suppress critical thinking, eradicate imagination and get them to be better consummate consumers and workers vs innovators, owners and entrepreneurs, Selma is important.
For those of us who are students of history or have been blessed with parents, relatives or key individuals in our lives who taught us, shaped our thinking and directed us to materials and resources that provided a richer and 'more accurate' political and social context of the issues and accounts connected to Selma, we have a responsibility to use this movie as a teaching tool.
We have responsibility to to take the excitement this movie has generated and turn folks on to all the people, concepts and outlying narratives directer Ava DuVernay weaves in and out of the movie...
We should be digging deeper into the scene that depicts Malcolm X coming to Selma and meeting with Coretta Scott King. We should be asking 'How did King and X's philosophy compliment each other?' In the movie King is shown saying the tactics he deployed resulted in real change. But as Malcolm notes in the movie perhaps that was possible because those in power feared him and the militant type of approach he represented. Why not have serious discussion on that?
We should really focus on the outright brutality and the repression shown in the film. Let's not take it for granted. Let's explore what Terrorism in the United States looked like and many would argue still looks like 50 years later. We had churches being bombed and people being killed with impunity. We also had ordinary folks who were willing to risk life, limb and freedom to get rights we take for granted today. How does what happened then mirror or differ from whats happening today when so many of our people are being killed by police?
We should be having robust discussions about the role former FBI director J Edgar Hoover and his Cointel-Pro program played not disrupting and destroying the Civil Rights and Black Liberation movements but also the depth in which it reached. In the movie its accurately shows how disrupting and destroying families was an important aspect used by the FBI. Excellent documentaries like Cointe-Pro 101 by the The Freedom Archives underscore this fact.
If you look on line you can find the documentary 'How the FBI Sabotaged Black America' , that can provide additional crucial information. We need to discuss domestic surveillance back in 1965 and domestic surveillance today and ask why that issue has not been resolved. We need to ask why is it accepted in some circles in 2015?
In the film we hear discussion about what took place in Albany, Georgia when Civil rights leaders confronted police chief Laurie Pritchett. In the film King asks if the police chief in Selma, Jim Clark was like Pritchett or Bull Connor?. It informs the strategy for how leaders approach Selma.
For us watching we should look into how those in power adapted to King's strategy of filling jails and neutralized his attempts to win justice.In the PBS series 'Eyes on the Prize' episode 4 called "No Easy Walk', Pritchett talks about how he read Dr King's book and found a way to redo mass arrests and not have it impact the cities operations. he rendered Kings strategy useless. We should be discussing how those tactics work today?
We should be looking up figures like James Lee Jackson who shot and killed by Alabama State troopers and understand what he meant to Movement. We should be exploring the killing of white religious leader James Reeb and how that galvanized the nation and led to people like former SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Toure) pointing out the inherent racism of America that would sit quietly when Black people like Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed fighting for freedom but be up in arms and ready to make change when the victim is white.
We should be exploring Diane Nash who was labeled in the movie as a female agitator and only has one line but was a young, college age, shrewd, fearless and important strategist for the Civil Rights Movement. She was also a primary architect in the freedom rides and sit ins that took place in the years leading up to Selma. She was someone who faced off with mayors and was arrested dozens of time and was willing to go to jail while pregnant in her attempts to win important rights.. An entire film could and should be made about her.
Another gem Selma brings to light are the tensions and disagreements that King and members of his SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) had with SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee). In the film SCLC are the centerpiece, but there is lots to say about the important role SNCC played historically in the Black Liberation struggle as well as in the crucial groundwork they laid down in Selma doing voting rights work before King and SCLC arrived.
There's lots to be said about more militant approach was adapting at the time vs the non-violent strategy employed by King. And while the movie doesn't go too deep into SNCC, Selma can and should inspire us to dig deep and learn more about them as with the other aforementioned leaders and organizations brought forth in the movie.
In a recent conversation good friend and historian professor Jared Ball encourages us to read 'Making of Black Revolutionaries' by James Forman who is shown in the film and was the executive director of SNCC. He also notes that the downplaying of SNCC is reflective of a larger trend in which far too often militant aspects of the Civil Rights and Black Freedom struggles are eclipsed.
To underscore his point of systemic erasing, Dr Ball noted that in the film James Forman's last name is never mentioned and he was never given a text summary at the end of the film as others did. He also pointed out that the total exclusion and not referencing Carmichael/Ture and Ella Baker at all is simply inexcusable.
SNCC should not be seen as just some fly by note organization that only marched. They were astute organizers who stuck around and built with with community weeks and months at a time.. They played a crucial role in Freedom Summer of 64. They ran freedom schools.
We should be exploring the organizing and voter registration work that Kwame and SNCC folks did during and after the Selma marches in Klan invested Lowndes County which led to the formation of the Black Panther political party which is different then the Black Panther party that would later be formed in Oakland with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
I would add that the PBS 'Eyes on the Prize' series in particular episodes 3 'Ain't Scared of Your Jails' which deals with the Freedom Rides, Episode 4 'No Easy Walk' which focuses on SCLC and SNCC and the campaign they did in Albany Georgia as well as Episode 6 'Bridge to Freedom' which focuses on Selma are good materials to check out. I'll try and post links in the comment section of this post.
What I feel is important about showing this tension between the two organizations (SCLC and SNCC), is that at the end of the day they managed to work together and show unity. Ava DuVernay accurately brings this to light in the film. In the 'Eyes on the Prize' episode on Selma, they show James Forman at a press conference talking about this issue directly and how they were united.
There are too many gems to cite that are excellently highlighted in Selma that we should be building on. There's no excuse not to especially now the movie is being made free for students in the 7th, 8th and 9th grade in many cities.
The other night I saw a large group of students from Oakland's Castlemont High attending. Afterwards those students stood around in the lobby and had a discussion on the film. Today (Sat Jan 17th ) at Oakland's Grand Lake, they are having a special screening followed by a discussion..At a time when we have so many protests, unrest and inevitable growing pains around movements to put an end to police terror, discussions around movement building generated by Selma are important and surely needed.
With regards to Selma being snubbed by the Oscars I agree wholeheartedly with Spike Lee, 'F-- 'Em' The academy deserves an unapologetic middle finger and at the same time, this snub should serve as inspiration for us to not look for validation from institutions that time and time again marginalize and ridicule us and our accomplishments.
If we are going to have award shows, perhaps its time to revisit and revitalize the Oscar Michaeux Awards that were started by the late Ava Montague of San Francisco and had a nice run in the late 80s early 90s..
The primary push back on Selma within the mainstream circles centers around how DuVernay depicts Kings relationship with President Lyndon Johnson. Folks seemed upset that King was shown as someone who stood on his own two feet, was uncompromising and actually pushed, defied and agitated the President to do the right thing with regards to bringing into fruition the Voting Rights Act.
Even more troubling is some brought into the notion that Johnson lead the Civil Rights Movement and directed King and was the brain power behind the marches on Selma. They point to a taped phone call Johnson had with King as proof positive. DuVernay saw such assertions as 'jaw dropping'.
Congressman John Lewis who at the time (1965) was a member of SNCC and prominently featured in the film recently penned an opt ed, for the LA Times rebuffing that erroneous notion..
He writes as follows; "Were any of the Selma marches the brainchild of President Johnson? Absolutely not. If a man is chained to a chair, does anyone need to tell him he should struggle to be free? The truth is the marches occurred mainly due to the extraordinary vision of the ordinary people of Selma, who were determined to win the right to vote, and it is their will that made a way".
As for the phone call, Lewis notes: "the president knew he was recording himself, so maybe he was tempted to verbally stack the deck about his role in Selma in his favor. The facts, however, do not bear out the assertion that Selma was his idea. I know. I was there. Don't get me wrong, in my view, Johnson is one of this country's great presidents, but he did not direct the civil rights movement."
The critiques around President Johnson and his relationship to King is telling especially when it comes from folks who heaped praise upon films like Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' where actor Daniel Day-Lewis who played Lincoln was hailed for his groundbreaking work.
The film went on to win lots of Golden Globe and Academy Awards. When it was pointed out 'this great film' had omitted former enslaved Africans turned freedom fighters and staunch abolitionists, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth who played crucial roles in pushing Lincoln to address the issue of slavery, it was dismissed as 'no big deal'.
'Its just a movie not a documentary' some claimed, even as it was being hailed as a a cinematic masterpiece all should watch to learn about Lincoln. People were told the story was about Lincoln not Douglass or Sojourner and thus not central to the storyline of the movie. The omission of Douglass is a salient point Lewis makes in his op ed.
The bottom line, is Selma is not a 'white saviour' type film. It doesn't have a prominent white character that saves the day for the 'needy helpless Negro'. Sadly that becomes a problem for some because goes against the popular narrative many have come to hold. Maybe the angst that many feel around King being so uncompromising in the movie was that its a tactic we should be using today with all our elected officials. King had a good relationship with Lyndon B Johnson and yet in the movie he pushed him and pushed him hard. Should we not have and be doing that with President Obama and other elected officials we like and admire or have good relationships with?
For those who suggest King wasn't that aggressive and uncompromising as shown in the film, explain how it was that King went hard in the paint around the issue of the Vietnam war angering president Johnson as well as other prominent Civil Rights leaders including folks he was closest too.
People love King now, but forget he was absolutely despised in 1968 and publicly skewered by many because he stuck to his principles and made the important international connection between the war in Vietnam and the war at home. King in his final days said time and time again this was not about being popular, getting a check or being friends with the President, it was about justice and doing whats right. How does that apply today in our collective actions?
Selma is a dope movie that hopefully leads to more exploration into our past which is then juxtaposed with what is going on the freedom movements today. Selma was 50 years ago and we still have many of the same problems including a return of some of the egregious tactics used to stop us from voting which led to a Selma Movement in the first place.
