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Thu May 4, 2017, 01:40 PM May 2017

The Kent States you don't know about


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/03/us/soundtracks-kent-state-jackson-state-orangeburg/

The Kent States you don't know about
By Breeanna Hare, CNN
Updated 8:56 PM ET, Wed May 3, 2017

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"Is dissent a crime?" the father of one of the slain students, 19-year-old Allison Krause, asked in Newsweek. "Is this such a reason for killing her? Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl has to be shot because she disagrees deeply with the actions of her government?"

It's a question that likely weighed heavily on the minds of another group of parents farther South -- ones who'd also lost their children on college campuses in an eerily similar way.

Just 11 days after the deadly shooting in Ohio, two students were killed and 12 were wounded when police fired more than 100 rounds of bullets on protesters gathered at Mississippi's predominantly black Jackson State College.

And two years earlier, in 1968, three students were killed by authorities during protests against segregation at South Carolina State in Orangeburg, another historically black institution.
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The Kent States you don't know about (Original Post) sl8 May 2017 OP
I remember Dick Gregory saying Va Lefty May 2017 #1

Va Lefty

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1. I remember Dick Gregory saying
Thu May 4, 2017, 01:45 PM
May 2017

quoting from memory...White folks don't understand. What they do to us today they do to you next week.

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