Thursday, June 27, 2013

Going south

The United States South especially Florida continues in the 21st century to be a dichotomy of space shuttles, descendants of former slaves, towns named after Confederate kernels, descendants of orange grove pickers, unwritten Jim Crow laws, Civil Rights martyrs  memorials , high unemployment and low wages, and retired Northerners living in  gated communities.  The Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman Trial is caught in the middle - lost in translation.  No one can understand one of the witnesses except Southerners.  Draw y'all.  When testamony is rebroadcast at night there are subtitles. 
The World is watching.  Welcome to the 21st Century America. I hope the Supreme Court is watching.  They just had the audacity to limit the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The Moores pictured in this article had their home bombed on Christmas Eve in the 1950's probably because they tried to register black voters on the Space Coast.  Their little yellow house is now a museum in MIMS, Florida near Sanford, Florida where Trayvon Martin was murdered. They both died probably killed by creepy assed Crackers on Christmas Eve. The Moores were both school teachers.  Their daughter Evangeline is still alive.  Both the Brevard County Courthouse and  Highway 46 are named after the Moores.

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