People who went to the annual commemorative march yesterday (Saturday) know that I shot footage of it. Those same people also know that the Enid News & Eagle "photoshopped" the picture they ran in the paper today (Sunday). And of those who might read this blog, they know that I haven't posted the vid.
Know ye that I don't plan to.I attended for personal reasons, and I did stay to watch the documentary Grayson Church showed afterward. There are exactly 3 people who showed up there that had a clue, because they listened to what I said about being just up the river from Memphis at the time, and what wasn't mentioned in the documentary (but what I remember quite clearly) were the Cairo IL race riots going on at the time, just up the river from Memphis TN. It's why I henceforth had no qualms about living in black neighborhoods or attending black churches back in the day when such a thing was still highly controversial.
Have a nice day.
The Enid News & Eagle would never get shots like these, either. By the way, in the photo immediately above, the guy on the left-most is also a Chautauqua regular. I was in good company in more ways than one.
Below, Selma remembered...
...to Garriott...
...and then...the Eagle has landed....
I think I should mention that I had an aunt that lived in Ferguson MO some years back and I remember that 'burb of St. Louis, too. A lot of stuff hitting close to home, as it were, these days.
P. S. for +Tim Lang :
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