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The Real Lesson of Selma: Today's America is vastly different.
« on: January 01, 2015, 06:59:31 pm »
Rich Lowry
National Review
January 1, 2015

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It is not 1965.

That is the implicit message of the new movie Selma, a stirring depiction of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting-rights march told from the perspective of Martin Luther King Jr...

But the people involved in the making of the film insist that these events didn't change America fundamentally, and indeed, they could be ripped from today's headlines.

The movie's stars showed up for the New York City premiere with "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts, and held their hands up for photos...

The temptation for the Left to live perpetually in 1965 is irresistible...
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