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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I must be going insane. a vendor at work just told me that their code was broken so they fixed it by (not literally - they did the moral equivalent of) redefining the mathematical
+operation globally. is the screaming coming from inside my head or am I making that sound out loud? modifying well-known, shared interfaces is batshit. why the everliving fuck did someone not tell you no? why is someone paying them money to make them my problem? I never want to think about them ever again. jesus christ pay me what you're paying them. I'll replace their product entirely with something that won't make you feel like cthulu just ran a tentacle down your spine. hell, I'll do it for free. please don't make me have to work with these people.Why would anyone even come up with the idea to change what "+" means? Like, holy shit, that is guaranteed to cause confusion and way, way bigger problems later on. There is no way that "solution" is worth it. I'm sorry you have to deal with that!
I’m sorry you had to deal with that, but that person has an amazing mind that should be studied. Redefining basic maths is galaxy brained problem solving
Operator overloading is extremely sus in the best of cases