For MANY years, I've heard 'U-2's song,


'Sunday Bloody Sunday', and thought they were referring to some Irish, IRA, event, BUT, it seems it was about the Freedom March in Selma, where hundreds of 'Negroes' got their skulls cracked, and worse, cuz they dared to peacefully march for an end to the the Jim Crow laws, and the socially accepted segregation of the day. Seems like things haven't changed that much in Ferguson, MO, where the police force looked at the black population as a 'revenue source', as interdepartmental correspondence documents that promotions within the force depended on how many tickets an officer could write, and no offense was too petty. If they can't pay? Add fines and jail time, after a good whuppin'. I know Michael Brown was a thug, and probably didn't have his hands up, but the shooting was just a by-product of a 'police culture gone bad'. Pretty sickening, looking back on the Selma march, 50 years ago, as the batons were clubbing and the dogs were biting. Then there were the shootings, bombings and lynchings.....
Doesn't seem that long ago, that the 'Freedom Riders' were in the headlines, as well as Southern prisons, if their bodies weren't tossed in the nearest swamp. The southern Bible Belt, leading in obesity and welfare, last in income and education, and home to the base of the Repub Party. Some things never change.....
PS. I'm wrong, and I admit it. The U2 song IS about Derry, in Northern Ireland, when several unarmed protesters were shot to death by British troops, in the war between Catholics and Protestants, not Selma,  though they were both, Bloody Sundays. Although the Irish band did do a song about Martin Luther King. Pride (In the Name of Love).

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