Posted on Mar 7, 2022
On 'Bloody Sunday,' Harris reflects on the current fight for voting rights
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https://www.npr.org/2022/03/06/ [login to see] /kamala-harris-selma-bloody-sunday-voting
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights, even as congressional efforts to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act have faltered.
Under a blazing blue sky, Harris linked arms with rank-and-file activists from the civil rights movement and led thousands across the bridge where, on March 7, 1965, white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross. The images of violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge — originally named for a Confederate general — shocked the nation and helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Harris called the site hallowed ground on which people fought for the "most fundamental right of America citizenship: the right to vote."
"Today, we stand on this bridge at a different time," Harris said in a speech before the gathered crowd. "We again, however, find ourselves caught in between. Between injustice and justice. Between disappointment and determination. Still in a fight to form a more perfect union. And nowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote."
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights, even as congressional efforts to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act have faltered.
Under a blazing blue sky, Harris linked arms with rank-and-file activists from the civil rights movement and led thousands across the bridge where, on March 7, 1965, white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross. The images of violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge — originally named for a Confederate general — shocked the nation and helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Harris called the site hallowed ground on which people fought for the "most fundamental right of America citizenship: the right to vote."
"Today, we stand on this bridge at a different time," Harris said in a speech before the gathered crowd. "We again, however, find ourselves caught in between. Between injustice and justice. Between disappointment and determination. Still in a fight to form a more perfect union. And nowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote."
On 'Bloody Sunday,' Harris reflects on the current fight for voting rights
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It isn’t any harder to vote than fly, open a bank account, buy booze etc. I have voted in Georgia over the last 30 years and stood in line with about every race of person in the world and never seen one person turned away.
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MSG Stan Hutchison - Because if you haven’t noticed how we vote and when we vote have changed if you haven’t noticed. With Covid, Voting Laws were loosened. Boundaries needed to be reset. Again when I voted in a special election no problems.
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