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I finally realized where locking arms came from (Original Post) marylandblue Sep 2017 OP
Trump has no clue. FuzzyRabbit Sep 2017 #1
Don't tell the Con n/t malaise Sep 2017 #2
That's quite a group of heroes in that picture rurallib Sep 2017 #3
I am embarrassed that I do not recognize all 5 men Louis1895 Sep 2017 #4
Is that John Lewis on far right? Louis1895 Sep 2017 #5
yes rurallib Sep 2017 #7
I cannot think of the name of #2 rurallib Sep 2017 #8
The order may not be right but here are the names csziggy Sep 2017 #11
The Seattle Seahawks did that all of last season... Wounded Bear Sep 2017 #6
I don't watch football so i didn't make the Seahawks connection marylandblue Sep 2017 #9
Oh yes! mountain grammy Sep 2017 #10
I found this... Civil Rights Marchers weren't 1st 7wo7rees Sep 2017 #12
Locked arms is even more significant than kneeling! Louis1895 Sep 2017 #13
here niyad Sep 2017 #15
dummy thought the locked arms showed support for himself. niyad Sep 2017 #14
Mind boggling isn't it? SunSeeker Sep 2017 #16
it hurts my brain. niyad Sep 2017 #18
Selma Mosby Sep 2017 #17

FuzzyRabbit

(1,958 posts)
1. Trump has no clue.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:36 PM
Sep 2017

Thanks for posting that photo. I had forgotten about the linked arms during the civil rights marches.

Trump has no clue. He tweeted: "Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable."

He evidently does not realize that the football players standing with locked arms started last season to show support for racial justice and support for Kaepernick kneeling.

rurallib

(62,343 posts)
3. That's quite a group of heroes in that picture
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:42 PM
Sep 2017

although I am sure the head Republican (probably most republicans) would disagree.

Louis1895

(768 posts)
4. I am embarrassed that I do not recognize all 5 men
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:54 PM
Sep 2017

Left to right:

Ralph Abernathy, #2, Marin Luther King, #4, #5.

Can you please remind me of the others?

I was only 14 when MLK was assassinated so I do not know recognize all.

OP: Good catch on the locked arms. Powerful message!

rurallib

(62,343 posts)
8. I cannot think of the name of #2
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:09 PM
Sep 2017

Abernathy is #1, I want to say Farmer - James Farmer?, then King, then someone I do not know, then Lewis.

Nope - totally wrong:

Martin Luther King leading march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans. Beside King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy. March 1965.

Wounded Bear

(58,437 posts)
6. The Seattle Seahawks did that all of last season...
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 08:56 PM
Sep 2017

to bring this concept forward.

Lot of very courageous men in that photo.

Louis1895

(768 posts)
13. Locked arms is even more significant than kneeling!
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 10:05 AM
Sep 2017

When considering the history of suffrage and civil rights!

Mosby

(16,158 posts)
17. Selma
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:14 PM
Sep 2017


From left to right: John Lewis of SNCC, an unidentified nun, Rev. Ralph Abernathy; Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Bunche (former U.S. Ambassador to the UN), Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/selmas-missing-rabbi_b_6491368.html
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