MLK Day is split in Alabama
By JOSH MOON
Published3 hours ago
... the FBI has now arrested .. at least three men from Alabama ... the napalm-toting Lonnie Coffman, who also had a list of good guys and bad guys written on a Motel 6 folder; Will Watson, the bearded son of a preacher who was photographed standing in the Capitol next to the “QAnon Shaman;” and Joshua Black, who uploaded two videos to YouTube explaining that MAGAs stormed the Capitol to spread the blood of Jesus.
That Alabama is well-represented in such an embarrassing display of misplaced anger and white people insecurity should not be a surprise. Those two emotions — misplaced anger and irrational white people insecurity — have caused more pain and suffering in this state than we can measure ...
Our right-wing lawmakers have created such an environment of self-destruction among the working class in this state by carefully cultivating hate and segregation through decades of lies and distortions. Lies meant to divide us based on something as insignificant as skin color. Distortions meant to persuade that the heart and mind inside white skin are different than the ones in black skin ...
... in practice, it has led to a day split between honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s sacrifice and fight for simple equality for all men and women, and also honoring Robert Lee, a murderous traitor to the country who owned and beat slaves. It has led to fights — some 200 years later — over monuments to slave owners ...
https://www.alreporter.com/2021/01/18/opinion-mlk-day-is-split-in-alabama-that-explains-a-lot-about-the-insurrection/