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(13,989 posts)raging moderate
(4,281 posts)Thank you, Failure to Communicate! It really tears my heart that we so seldom hear about Jackson State anymore! The story that struck me hardest back then:
One of the people killed there was a young father, a whole block away from the protest, going home from his job to his wife and NEW baby!
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)into the college DORM building where the students took refuge!!!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126426361
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And Neil Young was one of the great ones...and still is.
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)I think America died that day. Certainly the America I knew and loved did.
"What if you knew her, and found her dead on the ground??"
**NEVER FORGET!**
Ahpook
(2,747 posts)Has any of the soldiers responsible for these murders spoken out?
chervilant
(8,267 posts)"...when students battled with Ohio National Guard troopers."
Those "National Guard troopers" murdered those students in cold blood, and too many citizens crowed about it. I was 15 years old, and I remember thinking that my life could just as quickly be taken from me, just because I chose to be an activist.
I will never forget.
DreamSmoker
(841 posts)Today we are still in the Streets protesting some of the very same issues we had then...
From Pot to being Gay... Or the War... Name your poison..
Think of the past and see what Conservatism has done for you anytime...
Based on fear.... These Folks were here then and are still here now..
It takes Liberals to fix issues in America..
This while so called Conservative today fight change with every once of their energy..
It was this way then........ No different today......
To put this more in prospective....
It took 8 years for our For-Fathers to agree on a Bill of Rights to protect individuals from the majority..
This difference in us will never leave....
It is our nature... You are on one side or the other...
Auggie
(31,067 posts)I was 13 and living in Cleveland. Looking back at it, this might have been the event that opened my eyes to activism.
Ohio Govenor James Rhodes: At a news conference in Kent, Ohio, on Sunday May 3, 1970, the day before the Kent State shootings, he said of campus protesters: "They're worse than the Brownshirts, and the Communist element, and also the Night Riders, and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
Ohio elected him as Governor two more times after Kent State.
I hated this guy.
Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)I sure hope we get lots of posts here on DU about this on Monday.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)The Dome!!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Hadn't even heard it on the radio as yet. I might have just missed it, but it seemed a local group had it right away.