FoxNews: Southern states band together to create first unified Civil Rights Trail

[Popeman38]

Figured some good news was in order...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/01/22/southern-states-band-together-to-create-first-unified-civil-rights-trail.html

 

Quote

A half-century after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the very states that clung to racial segregation are now joining together to expand people’s knowledge on the Civil Rights Movement.  

 

For the first time, Southern tourism departments unveiled a unified website highlighting 110 pivotal landmarks that led to the attainment of civil and human rights for African Americans. Dubbed the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, the digital map of historic sites stretches from Topeka, Kan. to Wilmington, Del., including 14 states and Washington D.C.

“With this new development, people are going to be able to find out more truth about what happened to African Americans, and yet how America is growing past that and beginning to acknowledge that we’re all human beings,” King’s niece, Alveda King said.

 

(more at link)

 

“2018 is a very good year for equalizing the plight of humanity."

- Alveda King

[LD0506]

https://civilrightstrail.com/

 

Good catch Popeman, thanks for sharing this. Color me cynical if I see this more as an economic thing to boost tourism than a genuine acknowledgement, but hey that's where I'm at these days and it still keeps this narrative alive so motives don't really matter. Money always trumps politics, and in the end it's the way we'll find our way out of the current state we are in.  Funny, I just read this earlier on BBC........

 

http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20180122-one-tiny-towns-radical-plan-to-stop-a-rural-exodus

 

Sp many of the issues we  fight about nowadays began and are a direct outgrowth of "business" outsourcing jobs, directly and all the attendant economic activity supporting them, declining tax bases, etc. I applaud Claiborne Deming "putting his money where his mouth is" and investing it in the very life of his town.

 

[Popeman38]

1 hour ago, LD0506 said:

https://civilrightstrail.com/

 

Good catch Popeman, thanks for sharing this. Color me cynical if I see this more as an economic thing to boost tourism than a genuine acknowledgement, but hey that's where I'm at these days and it still keeps this narrative alive so motives don't really matter. Money always trumps politics, and in the end it's the way we'll find our way out of the current state we are in.  Funny, I just read this earlier on BBC........

 

http://www.bbc.com/capital/gallery/20180122-one-tiny-towns-radical-plan-to-stop-a-rural-exodus

 

Sp many of the issues we  fight about nowadays began and are a direct outgrowth of "business" outsourcing jobs, directly and all the attendant economic activity supporting them, declining tax bases, etc. I applaud Claiborne Deming "putting his money where his mouth is" and investing it in the very life of his town.

Even if done for monetary reasons, the trail is a big deal.  Especially since it is being done by the southern states.

[Zguy28]

I was gonna post this the other day, but didn't know where was appropriate.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/08/politics/donald-trump-martin-luther-king-jr-park/index.html

 

One thing Trump has done I agree with.

[Llevron]

31 minutes ago, Popeman38 said:

Even if done for monetary reasons, the trail is a big deal.  Especially since it is being done by the southern states.

 

Totally. This is pretty cool im glad you shared it I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise. 

[Zguy28]

20 hours ago, Llevron said:

 

Totally. This is pretty cool im glad you shared it I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise. 

That's because it doesn't fit in the narrative.

[Llevron]

1 minute ago, Zguy28 said:

That's because it doesn't fit in the narrative.

 

Well, if you wanna be technical it's because it doesn't drive clicks. News would put it on if people cared about it. But people seem to be more into what does and doesn't fit their respective narratives than just having a good story. 

 

I see what you tried to pull there though. Nice one. 

[Zguy28]

12 minutes ago, Llevron said:

 

Well, if you wanna be technical it's because it doesn't drive clicks. News would put it on if people cared about it. But people seem to be more into what does and doesn't fit their respective narratives than just having a good story. 

 

I see what you tried to pull there though. Nice one. 

It doesn't drive the outrage machine, on either side, does it?

 

I hope you don't think I was referring to you individually.