Bloody Sunday Anniversary: 60's Leader Re-emerges With A Warning

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Bloody Sunday Anniversary: 60's Leader Re-emerges With A Warning

Guest: 77 year-old Dr. Barbara Williams Emerson, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King’s lead organizer.

Mar 09, 2025

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With us is 77 year-old Dr. Barbara Williams Emerson, who has spent her life at the crossroads of activism and education, poking and prodding institutions to actually live up to their grand mission statements. She’s been in the trenches of voter rights, affirmative action, and higher education, proving that, unlike some, she doesn’t suffer from the American affliction of amnesia. She’s also just penned an essay about the “other guy” on the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge—because, as it turns out, history isn’t just the names carved into the monuments but the foot soldiers who did the marching, bleeding, and dying. Let’s go to her live, these 60 years later in Selma, Alabama.

* And on this anniversary when Congress has abdicated its charge for governance, a loan member of the Democratic Party stuck out during the recent State of the Union Address. But for one, the others held up paper fans in silent protest. This “resistance” chose to sit on their flattened scrotums - seen, but not heard – as it appears to still be the case, even now.

Yet, another 77-year-old, African-American Democratic congressman from Texas, representative Al Green (in defense of Medicaid), erected himself and rapped his walking stick against the back of a chair in protest, literally stealing the spotlight – and worse – the TV cameras from the President. Hundreds of brave and strong GOP members would soon applaud as the crippled black congressman was forcibly escorted from the chamber. It is withering to imagine the crushing force of that cane, ruthlessly bludgeoning the back of a hapless chair. Worse, its potential of being unleashed across that august parliamentary body. We witnessed hundreds of quaking politicians cowering against the horrifying threat of a septuagenarian lifting his support crutch. Finally, sweeping into the rescue with a banging gavel, was testosterone-pumping Republican speaker of the house, Mike Johnson. Mr. Johnson, best known for having his private sexual peccadillos personally monitored by his own son via a mobile app, spotted the obvious threat from the withered husk grappling his cane. Speaker Johnson knew that calling the Sergeant at Arms might be the only way to protect hundreds of politicians, under bodily siege. Quickly, order was restored and Mr. Green has subsequently been censured by Act of Congress for having a Zelensky-like lack of gratitude or a bad case of white-men-ingitis, given censure-based racial appetites of the opposition.