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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Excellent Links / The President’s Speech At Selma

The President’s Speech At Selma

by Anne Laurie|  March 7, 20154:55 pm| 60 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Proud to Be A Democrat, Daydream Believers

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"What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this…than the belief that America is not yet finished."

— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) March 7, 2015

Transcript of the prepared speech, via the Washington Post:

… There are places, and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided. Many are sites of war — Concord and Lexington, Appomattox and Gettysburg. Others are sites that symbolize the daring of America’s character — Independence Hall and Seneca Falls, Kitty Hawk and Cape Canaveral.

Selma is such a place.

In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history — the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher — met on this bridge.

It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills; a contest to determine the meaning of America.

And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. King, and so many more, the idea of a just America, a fair America, an inclusive America, a generous America — that idea ultimately triumphed…

If anyone can find a video of President Obama’s speech, put a link in the comments and I’ll move it to the top here.

EETA: Thank you, commentors LAMH36 and trollhattan:

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 7, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    There are several links in the prior thread from people responding to my request.

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    March 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm

    Anne I posted a CSPAN link in the last thread

    The speech President Barack Obama just gave at Selma is posted at C-SPAN: http://www.c-span.org/video/?324607-3/president-obama-representative-john-lewis-selma-50th-anniversary

  3. 3.

    gogol's wife

    March 7, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    I love Barack Obama.

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    March 7, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    I have always appreciated that the president invariably closes his speeches with “God bless the United States of America,” not just “God bless America.” It’s a subtle but important difference from what other politicians do.

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    March 7, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Just heard the speech on the radio–well done by the only person who could have delivered it.

    Utterly unrelated: how many more of these do we need?

    Several cars have caught fire after a Canadian National Railway train carrying crude oil derailed in northern Ontario, prompting officials to advise nearby residents to stay indoors and avoid consuming water from local sources. Ontario Provincial Police were called to the scene at approximately 2:45 a.m. ET. The Transportation Safety Board said 30 to 40 cars derailed four kilometres southwest of Gogama, Ont., and there were no initial reports of injuries

    Several cars have caught fire, police said, and others entered the Mattagami River System. The cause of the derailment is still under investigation and the Ministry of Environment has been notified.

    Residents of Mattagami First Nation are being advised not to consume water from the community source for the time being. Residents of Gogama and Mattagami First Nation are being asked to stay inside until further notice due to possible smoke inhalation.

  6. 6.

    mai naem mobile

    March 7, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    Was Condi there or was she busy golfing somewhere?

  7. 7.

    David Koch

    March 7, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    A photo of the crowd (people as far as the eye can see)

  8. 8.

    Parfigliano

    March 7, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    He clearly doesn’t love his country.

  9. 9.

    ruemara

    March 7, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    @trollhattan: Are these the “safe” cars too? It seems there’s nothing remotely safe about any of this, but I doubt our ineffective Congress will do anything besides cut regulations.

  10. 10.

    David Koch

    March 7, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    (Photo) President OBama leading massive march across the bridge

  11. 11.

    Mike J

    March 7, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    You can see in one of the pics in this report how much the military hate Obama.

  12. 12.

    Ruckus

    March 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    @trollhattan:
    There are certain risks of industrialization. Just like there were risks of living in a cave and hunting wild animals. That said industrialization also can give us answers on how to avoid and minimize many of those risks. Seat belts/airbags, train warning systems, etc. However those protective things need to take priority over profit. And in our current corporate climate I fear they don’t. CA is ahead of the game for the most part and it sure hasn’t seemed to hurt our economy here but we have lost several types of business that I feel could be done safely here to areas that are not so concerned about health and safety.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    March 7, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    @David Koch:
    Not just him, but the entire First Family.
    And the President holding Mrs. Boynton’ s hand. When she was getting beaten 50 years ago, she could not have imagined this moment.

  14. 14.

    David Koch

    March 7, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    @Mike J: Camera don’t lie: they detest him. Especially the generals

  15. 15.

    beltane

    March 7, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    President Obama is an incredible leader and human being, many magnitudes of class above the Republicans’ shadow POTUS who addressed Congress last week.

  16. 16.

    mai naem mobile

    March 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Bbbutt Mayor Noun Verb 9/11 told me President Obama doesn’t lurv America like we do?

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    March 7, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    @David Koch:

    For once, W did something his father might be proud of. His mother, not so much.

    (He’s in the front row on the right-hand side of the photo.)

  18. 18.

    donnah

    March 7, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    The photo of him leading the crowd brought tears to my eyes. I wish he could have been able to lead the country as he saw fit right from the start.

  19. 19.

    J R in WV

    March 7, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    I cried too. How amazing to see that crowd stretching out of sight into the distance!

  20. 20.

    mai naem mobile

    March 7, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Can I do an imitation of Jen Rubin and say that W wasn’t applauding enthusiastically for Dear Leader?

    ~jk~

  21. 21.

    Belafon

    March 7, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): At least this one wasn’t staged like the photo from France.

  22. 22.

    lamh36

    March 7, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    The Presiden’ts speech went a long way to make my day end better than my morning. That damn dude from the inspection place really pissed me off.

    In case you missed my comment from the previous thread:

    Well went to local place to get my brake tag (NOLA slang for inspection sticker) for my car.. All I had to do was sit through a semi-rant over how Obama is soon to bankrupt the country cause of his spending (forget about all the spending before him ya know) and how Obama is letting people come in and get passports for free so that they can get health insurance, so they can vote and so they can go home to Mexico to get social security checks mailed to Mexico! Glad I don’t need another for 2 years, and even then, I’ll be somewhere else…geez

  23. 23.

    Hildebrand

    March 7, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    I love the way that President Obama can bring both hope and the hammer in his speeches. He righteously whacks those needing it, but never allows those negative people to get in the way of his hopes for the country.

  24. 24.

    ruemara

    March 7, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    @lamh36: After I got my tags, I would have told him he was an idiot.

  25. 25.

    muddy

    March 7, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): After Obama spoke and gave GWB the partial bro hug (or whatever that handshake shoulder bump thing is called) GWB looked genuinely thrilled for a second like he was crushing on the prez too.

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    March 7, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Tears. So much beauty and poignance today.

  27. 27.

    Montysan0

    March 7, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    As I said in the other Selma thread: we live in Alabama, and have gone to Selma for the annual march. It’s something that all Americans should put on their bucket list. It was one of my best days ever.

  28. 28.

    Roger Moore

    March 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    Bbbutt Mayor Noun Verb 9/11 told me President Obama doesn’t lurv America like we do?

    He doesn’t love it the way Rudy Giuliani and his buddies do, but that’s a compliment, not an insult. Barack Obama loves America the way a decent person loves his family, not the way a gourmand loves a steak.

  29. 29.

    lamh36

    March 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    @ruemara: mahn, you get so used to it, living here, I was just happy to get the tags and go. My temp tags were gonna expire tomorrow

    But I did make sure to tell my friends and family in the area to avoid the business at all cost.

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    March 7, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    @lamh36:

    There was a raid recently here in So Cal because of a company promoting “birth tourism” to the U.S. Not surprisingly, it’s actually aimed at rich people willing to pay up to $60,000 to give birth here and then return to their home country (usually, but not exclusively, China):

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/04/390594357/federal-agents-carry-out-search-for-evidence-of-illegal-support-for-birth-touris

    So, no, it’s not poor foreigners trying to leach off our country — it’s rich ones.

  31. 31.

    trollhattan

    March 7, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):
    And you just know the Republicans are REALLY conflicted over that dichotomy.

    “If they are rich are they not therefore, worthy? But what if they’re too furrin’ and not the good English-speakin’?”

  32. 32.

    BubbaDave

    March 7, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Barack Obama loves America the way a decent person loves his family, not the way a gourmand loves a steak.

    I am going to use that phrase until I wear my vocal cords out. Well done, sir.

  33. 33.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 7, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    The photo of him leading the crowd brought tears to my eyes.

    I looked at all those one-young people, who thought they were about to get killed 50 years ago.
    I remember my mother trying to explain to third-grade me what those pictures in Life magazine meant.

    I thought back to the prophet Simeon, waiting, waiting, waiting at the Temple.

    These people been waiting a looooong time.

    Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word.
    For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
    Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
    To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel.

    The battle’s not over, there’s backsliding — looking at you, Justice Roberts — and the risk of backsliding, but some things cannot be un-done.
    But babies cannot be un-born, bells un-rung, and presidents cannot be unelected

  34. 34.

    BubbaDave

    March 7, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    @gogol’s wife:
    He’s disappointed me a few times, but I see something like that speech and I remember why I was wandering around rural Ohio knocking on doors in the fall of 2008. Also, in an unrelated note I may have gotten something in my eye a few times during that speech.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    March 7, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    @David Koch: I am struck by how strong and powerful and unburdened President Obama looks in that photo as he strides forward, leading the march.

    What a great day for a great man. I’m very happy to see our president looking so much like himself, not tired or worn down.

  36. 36.

    Ruckus

    March 7, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    This. Himself. What a fine thing for a good man to be.

  37. 37.

    sharl

    March 7, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    Yowza, I got a whole bunch of links to catch up on, once I get settled in. Sounds like the Selma 50th has been a wonderful remembrance.

    @trollhattan: Did you see this video posted in early February of a Canadian freight train plowing through heavy snow in New Brunswick? The whole thing runs just over three minutes, with the first minute or so being the most impressive part. But after reading your news quote, I re-watched that, and saw a whole bunch of tanker cars in that long train. I suppose they could could cooking oil or some low-flammability industrial fluid, but it could also be something more dangerous. So now I’m wondering what precautions they take in NB or North Ontario or anywhere to ensure their tracks are hazard-free before sending trains at such high speed in such conditions of poor visibility. [I read somewhere that passenger trains there don’t move like that, so at least there’s that…]

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    March 7, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    Also, if the Democratic power structure is smart enough to pick it up, Obama just gave them a great theme for 2016: keep moving forward.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    March 7, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    @BubbaDave: Exactly. The way he looked striding across that bridge today reminded me very much of the Barack Obama I worked my heart out for in 2007/2008.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    March 7, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    @Ruckus: That’s what scares them the most, I think. He is so comfortable in his own skin, he knows exactly who he is and what matters to him, and he’s perfectly comfortable being president of the united states.

    The rethugs are frightened cowards and frauds, and I suspect that seeing Obama so at ease being president makes them very uncomfortable when they look in the mirror every day, and I think they hate the hell out of him for that. Not to mention.. A black man! As president!

  41. 41.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 7, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @WaterGirl: It’s not just that. It could be a white guy. RFK freaked them out the same way.

    It’s that they don’t really believe all those big words. Oh, they’ll say them, with their mouths. But with their hearts?

    It’s a shuck, and a fraud, and a grift, at least for them. Surely it must be so for everyone? Surely everyone feels that way?

    Suddenly there’s a possibility that they’re wrong. That their premises and priors are wrong. That it’s not a shuck. They can see the abyss beneath their feet. For a second.

    Then it passes.

  42. 42.

    BubbaDave

    March 7, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Not to mention.. A black man! As president!

    “Never send to know for whom the ni-CLANG tolls; he tolls for thee.”

  43. 43.

    john fremont

    March 7, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    @Roger Moore: Or as GK Chesterton said about Rudyard Kipling, ” He loves England because she is strong, not because it home.”
    Complete paraphrase from the cobwebs in my memory.

  44. 44.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    @Roger Moore: He doesn’t love it the way Rudy Giuliani and his buddies do, but that’s a compliment, not an insult. Barack Obama loves America the way a decent person loves his family, not the way a gourmand loves a steak.

    I always think of it as foam-finger patriotism, they love America like a face-painted idiot screaming WHOOOOOO! at the top of his lungs loves his sports franchise and talks about what “we” did on Monday morning.

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    also, too, this

    LOLGOP @ LOLGOP · 1h 1 hour ago
    Imagine how many Republicans would have been in Selma if Netanyahu were speaking there.

  46. 46.

    Ruckus

    March 7, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    I don’t think he always was. I think that’s part of why he had Ramn as his COS. Look how much he has loosened up since Ramn left. I started getting this feeling after reading about what Ramn has done for Chicago. Or to Chicago depending on your point of view. I know at one time I was thinking how does one even run the country and of course it requires a right hand, someone who has your agendas in mind as they carry out the orders necessary to make such a giant octopus work. Looking back I don’t think Ramn had that.

  47. 47.

    Ruckus

    March 7, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    foam-finger patriotism

    A great way to say it. Their sum total of participation was to buy a ticket, and yet they won. Is a franchise owner any different?

  48. 48.

    Patricia Kayden

    March 7, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    @Montysan0: I didn’t know that it was an annual march. Would love to go one year. Love that President Obama is in the White House for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and the March in Selma.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/local/obamas-remembers-kings-legacy/2013/08/28/d6ac47d4-101b-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_video.html

    I’m sure that both events would have been ignored by the White House under a Republican President. Rand Paul doesn’t even support the Civil Rights Act.

  49. 49.

    Elmo

    March 7, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    When PBO gave GWB the shout-out for signing the VRA extension, and then called upon the Congressmen present to go back to DC and fix it, even GWB joined in the standing O.

    What an amazing, amazing speech. How he must love this country.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    March 7, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I always think of it as foam-finger patriotism

    The foam finger types are the ones at Tea Party rallies, not at $10K/plate party leadership brunches. The foam finger patriots may not be sophisticated in their love for their country, but it’s their home and they love it for that. Rudy and his ilk see the country as theirs in the sense of ownership, not membership.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    March 7, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    White House web page for today’s speech and march is up.

  52. 52.

    catclub

    March 7, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    @trollhattan: The safer alternatives are: a) pipelines b)using less oil.
    Which combination of the two do you suggest?

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    March 7, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @catclub:
    Yes!

    Alternative 3 is screw the tar sands extraction infrastructure, which is currently producing oil at a huge loss because they can’t “afford” to not run it (sunk costs and all that). And because it’s not ordinary crude, but a slurry in solvent, it’s far more dangerous to ship. We have no benefit in allowing the stuff to be transhipped across our country.

  54. 54.

    Elie

    March 7, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    Late to the thread but just watched O’s speech….This is the mission of the last piece of his presidency… I was so honored and proud of him — but most of all, of US — as we struggle forward to make the vision of democracy and liberty real for all of us — He reminded me to embrace the vision again, and to accept the work of it — the profound work of it — with less complaint than I have. I am humbled by this reminder, but I know that many of our great leaders have needed the support and reminder. MLK used to have Mahalia Jackson call him and sing spirituals that would link him to the power of the spirit he needed to stay strong for the challenges.. he asked people to die and suffer for this cause he was leading them to, without knowledge of the final outcome.

    So it is with us. We don’t know how our efforts will turn out. We have to stay on the march with the vision of our goal in our hearts — a diverse, just America with equal opportunity for all of us — welcoming citizens from all over the world, trusting in our energy, spirit and vision to sustain the meaning….and faith that we can sustain it… even as we battle for meaning…

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    March 7, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    @Elie:
    I’ve been thinking about the president’s speech since hearing it. I commented that I liked the inclusiveness of it. And I watched an amazing PBS video called Craft in America. For the most part it is about veterans who have learned to express themselves through beautiful works in mediums like pottery, metalwork and papermaking. It has come around for me that President Obama’s speech was really my vision of what this country should be and still isn’t for so many. It wasn’t that he said it well (he did!) but that his words ring truer for me than the delivery.

  56. 56.

    BubbaDave

    March 7, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    @Elmo:

    When PBO gave GWB the shout-out for signing the VRA extension, and then called upon the Congressmen present to go back to DC and fix it, even GWB joined in the standing O.

    I am damning with faint praise here, but I really don’t believe GWB is a bigot. For all his crimes– and they are legion — he also stood up after 9/11 and pronounced in an address to the nation “I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your faith. It’s practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah.” He appointed Condi Rice and Colin Powell to positions of power. I think he was the worst President in US history, narrowly edging James Buchanan — but he wasn’t as bad as the Republican leadership today.

    Now I’m going to go throw up in my mouth a bit for having defended the Shrub.

  57. 57.

    dogwood

    March 7, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @BubbaDave
    I never thought of GW as a bigot either. Being the worst president is not synonymous with being the worst person. The post obama republican party is run at every level by bad people who seem to enjoy inflicting pain on the powerless. I wouldn’t put Bush in that category.

  58. 58.

    Darkrose

    March 8, 2015 at 12:33 am

    Oh snap, Republicans. “Loving this country requires more than just singing its praises and avoiding uncomfortable truths.”

    You have just been told.

  59. 59.

    Ruckus

    March 8, 2015 at 12:46 am

    @BubbaDave:
    Now I’m going to go throw up in my mouth a bit for having defended the Shrub.

    Had to do the same earlier. We get to give him credit for being the worst, we have to honest and give him positive credit where that’s due. Not thinking he’s a bigot is all I’ve got on the positive side though.

  60. 60.

    Cervantes

    March 8, 2015 at 3:14 am

    @dogwood:

    bad people who seem to enjoy inflicting pain on the powerless. I wouldn’t put Bush in that category.

    The man is, in my view, a sociopath.

    There are countless cases we could consider, most of them anonymous to us. Here is one case from an interview reported by Tucker Carlson years ago in Talk (September, 1999):

    In the week before [Karla Faye Tucker’s] execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. “Did you meet with any of them?” I ask.

    Bush whips around and stares at me. “No, I didn’t meet with any of them,” he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. “I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?'”

    “What was her answer?” I wonder [aloud].

    “Please,” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “don’t kill me.”

    I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel, even for someone [claiming to be] as militantly anti-crime as Bush — because he immediately stops smirking.

    Incidentally, Bush was not quoting Ms. Tucker. The words and the whimper were entirely his own.

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