On the 21st of March in 1965, on what was the third attempt by organizers to do so, voting rights activists successfully marched 54 miles from Selma, Alabama to the state capital Montgomery, arriving there with more than 25,000 people.
The marches were organized by civil rights activists to demonstrate the desire for black citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of state repression. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to the passage of the Voting Rights Act that year, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement.
The first attempt to make the march happened on March 7th, but failed due to police brutality. Police knocked marchers to the ground, beat them with nightsticks, and fired teargas. One marcher, a 14 year old girl, required 28 stitches in the back of her head. Although the assault ended the first attempt of protesters to march to Montgomery, it brought international attention to the protest.
After a federal court ruled that the march was legal, the third and successful attempt to march to Montgomery was made. By its end, 25,000 people marched to steps of the State Capitol Building in Montgomery. The protest was a watershed moment in the civil rights struggle, and, by the next year, 11,000 black people were successfully registered to vote in Selma.
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Honestly just being blanektly against bdsm is more respectable then this "only male het doms are sus" bullshit.
No way is bdsm anti-proletarian.
Is toilet paper antiPROLETARIAN????
"X kind of sex is bad" almost always turns out to "women shouldn't have agency" when you drill down on people"s actual beliefs.
I also have a theory that a lot of these people are selfish lovers who xant imagine doing something because your partner is into it. Cant see past the end of their nose.
No, they are right. Fetlife proves this
Fetlife has been terrible for so long i can't imagine a world without it. Want to strike up a conversation with kinky people? Just say "did you see that bullshit happening on fetlife?" Then no along when they start in on it. You don't even need to know what "that bullshit" is. It's been the same bullshit for twenty years. The only thing you don't know is the names.
There being male doms that suck doesnt mean its inherently suspicious
Personally im not even into inflicting pain. But i am into seeing my partner react to things they like. So if they get off to pain, im into it.
People who think the way in that tweet havent even thought of this possibility (i think because theyre selfish lovers lol)
I don't use X dot com so the username of Poll Pot is both incredibly funny and unnerving and I can't focus on what this post is about.