Sunday Focus: Least they forget...

    

Montgomery's Dexter Avenue has never looked so good.

     A huge amount of time, money, and effort is being expended to take advantage of the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma and, later in the year, the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 
     The First Family will be in Selma on Saturday to mark the Bloody Sunday anniversary.
 

Par of The Alabama Civil War Memorial

    But two other events are conspiring to cause Americans to doubt much has changed in the First Capitol of The Confederacy, to make them wonder if Alabama is still the Alabama of the last century.

• The first is the Roy-Moore led battle against the Federal Government. He says even if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of same sex marriage, he will ignore that ruling in his own decisions as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.

• The second is a plan by The (Alabama based) League of The South to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Assassination of President Lincoln in April.

A Demopolis paper happily spread the news, though it was wrong about Seward's death and "LEE DEFEATS GRANT".

     

     Lincoln's death was celebrated in Alabama in 1865. The newspaper in slave-center Demopolis reported the "GLORIOUS NEWS" of Lincoln's murder, the editors writing that they "hope that it may be true".
     And to this day Lincoln is defamed. The President's Day celebration in the state is specifically for Washington and Jefferson, not Lincoln. And now the League honoring" John Wilkes Booth's service to our country" will be another sign that for some Alabamians, the Civil War never ended.








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