Freedom Rider Bernard Lafayette shuts down Ferguson protesters from disrupting President Obama’s spe

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Freedom Rider Bernard Lafayette shuts down Ferguson protesters from disrupting President Obama’s speech

SELMA – Civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette was listening intently to President Barack Obama’s speech in Selma on Saturday afternoon when he began to hear what sounded like a drum beat and chants of “We want change, we want change.”

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“I asked them why they were making such a ruckus, and one told me they were upset that the president wasn’t addressing their concerns, but never really told me what they were,” said Lafayette.

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A voting rights pioneer who began registering black residents in Selma two years before the protests began there, Lafayette has continued to advocate human rights issues in Alabama.

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He said one of the demonstrators began crying that nobody would listen to their complaints and Lafayette let him know that he had been arrested 27 times during the protests he was involved in and once was targeted for assassination in Selma.

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. When President Obama mentioned what the early day civil rights activists endured

he appropriately reminded us all that shit has changed.

Jesus, when I think back to how a black person was treated by all institutions, just 50 years ago and that today we have an AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

Bernard is a man to listen to, and I bet he will also be the first to say when it is time to go to the next level of protest.

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2. I took classes from LaFayette in Kingian Nonviolence. He was a major player in

the struggle who is often not mentioned.

[NOLALady]

3. We heard them.

But, we had no clue of what was going on. I originally assumed that they were not aware that our President was speaking. I had a hard time believing that they were being deliberately disrespectful at such a time!