From the "Only History Can Judge Us" files, a front-page editorial in the Montgomery Advertiser (Jan 31, 1965) arguing that the civil rights agitation in Selma would soon be forgotten and eventually everyone would agree the white population was in the right.

Something else *could* have become the enduring symbol, but Selma was near to unique in having it all, for a 10- or 30-second video edit. Wasson didn’t get that.

That guy sucked not only as a human being but as a writer.

Also I think telescopes don't do that?

It’s a good thing we learned our lesson and stopped shitting on movements that call out injustice by comparing them to the “more noble” movements of the past that were absolutely not smeared by the mainstream media at the time.

Astonishing to look back and see it laid out so openly in a newspaper at the time.

Has anyone checked to see what Committee this writer may have belonged to in the 50s or 60s? 😉

History took a while to get there, though. The same mayor who ordered police to attack the civil rights activists held office in Selma until I was in college... in 2000.

He seems like he was a real peach.

This reads like that critic of the Gettysburg Address. Maybe he learned from him?

Talked about mixed metaphors. History is an image projected through a telescope. It's a movie with scenes left on the cutting room floor. Painful to read