I went to church today...

[Drich]

It wasn't intended to be a historical reenactment of a previous march. It was not a march to recreate history. No one was dressing up as 60s protesters. It was a peaceful commemoration of march that had ended in violence.

Again see what I said above. (Read past the word re-enactment) In true rememberences both sides of the struggle are remembered. In political propaganda only one side is heard.

Veterans Day parades don't generally include people representing the opposing side because they aren't historical reenactments. This was essentially the same.

Vetrans day parades don't include members of opposing armies because opposing armies aren't quartered in this country. How ever veterans day speaches do indeed include a rememberance for those who died on both sides of a conflict.

What happened in selma was a on site rememberance as per my Auschwitz example. and when done properly they do include the opposition so the truth is perserved, and the line into propaganda is not crossed.

It's morally bankrupt to say all police officers beat black people with clubs? Really? Wrong, I'll grant you, but morally bankrupt?

ABSOLUTLY YES!!!
Why? Because To be a Police officer in the 60's assigned to protect one of the civial rights leaders was to put your self in the line of fire.
These men were heros and they are treated like villians to steal the glory of all of the actions of a few is indeed the act of a morally bankrupt person.

There is a transferance of anger from what is happening in the news today with police onto the actions of the police then.

I have never seen the Civil Rights Movement taught in such a way as to suggest either that there weren't law abiding police officers who did their jobs properly
or that there weren't white people who participated one the side of civil rights.

The move from non volient protests in the late 60's to violent protests was supposedly because of how all police handeled black protesters. The Black panters came into power on this point. How is it you missed that teaching?

But that does not change the fact that at this particular bridge peaceful marchers asking for no more than equal rights were met with officers wielding billy clubs.

How many more peaceful protests ended uneventfully?

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Drich, for the love of your God enough with the goddamn laughing smileys.