Sunday Focus: Birmingham and Protest

     You have to know what some people are going to say when they read about a Black Lives Matter protester being pushed to the ground and beaten by people attending Saturday's Donald Trump rally in the city. 
     Birmingham! Black protesters beaten by whites! Of course!
      
     The Montgomery Advertiser reported:

A member of Trump’s staff who declined to be named said the three were members of the civil rights group Black Lives Matter.
Two of them were asked to stop and complied, said the staff member. The third, an unknown adult African American man, did not.
“The guy was being disruptive,” the staff member said. “He was doing the Black Lives Matter thing and saying other phrases that were really firing up the crowd around him. He was throwing his hands around almost punching.”

(emphasis mine)

CNN has what appears to be cell-phone video of the incident.

AL.COM reports the whites called the protester "monkey":

The Black Lives Matter protester attacked during Donald's Trump's Birmingham rally said he was punched, kicked and called "n****r" while a group of eight or nine people were on top of him.

  

   Montgomery---and all of Alabama--- has its own racial history to deal with. It was at the Montgomery bus station that police turned their back to let the KKK beat Freedom Riders.  City residents opened segregation academies rather than have their children go to integrated schools.
   


     










     But the water hoses and police dogs being used against protesters belong to Birmingham. So people reading about those attending the Donald Trump rally?

 For them "it figures".  

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