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Originally Posted by scaeagles
I found that to be quite offensive.
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Give me a f.ucking break.
And what the hell does this mean?
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Originally Posted by scaeagles
Rev. Joseph Lowery? No idea who that guy is.
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So because you've never heard of him, he mustn't be a deserving person to make the speech?
Didn't take me long to find out he's a
respectable guy.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Lowery was pastor of the Warren Street United Methodist Church, in Mobile, Alabama from 1952 until 1961. His career in the civil rights movement began in the early 1950s in Mobile, Alabama. After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955, Lowery helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott. He headed the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, an organization devoted to the desegregation of buses and public places. In 1957, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and subsequently led the organization as its president from 1977 to 1997.
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At the request of Martin Luther King Jr., Lowery led the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.
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Seriously, Leo, you're going to start attacking a guy who led one of the THE most important civil rights marches in American history?