John Lewis and #TruthAboutSelma

When I saw the Lügenpresse was driving the news cycle with Trump’s tweets about ‘civil rights icon’ John Lewis this morning, I felt like I had to do something. I’m sick and tired of John Lewis parachuting into my state for his annual photo ops. So, I got in my truck and drove over to Selma to retrace his footsteps.

This guy coming has been coming here for over 50 years now and his marching has cut a swath of economic devastation through Dallas, Lowndes and Montgomery County, AL that can only be compared to General William Tecumsah Sherman’s March To the Sea. As everyone who lives in the Alabama Black Belt knows, the devastation that John Lewis wrought here during and after the Civil Rights Movement is worse than anything that Vladimir Putin’s Russia could ever possibly do to us.

I decided to start out in Montgomery and retrace John Lewis’s footsteps, in reverse, from the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery back to Selma. Unfortunately, it was mid-afternoon before this project got underway. It was a spur of the moment thing and so I only accomplished a fraction of what I set out to do. I will be returning to Selma in the next few days to help my friend Paul Kersey document The Truth About Selma: What Happened When The Cameras Left and The Marching Stopped.

All right, gang. We’re going to Selma. This will be like Stanley and Livingstone in the Congo #TruthAboutSelma

— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 14, 2017

Every time I have driven to Selma I have felt like Mad Max in The Road Warrior driving into the wasteland #TruthAboutSelma

— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 14, 2017

Queue up some post-apocalyptic background music. I can’t find the original Mad Max soundtrack video https://t.co/bvWncBnz4p

— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 14, 2017

@occdissent Any “formerly white now black” area becomes this way. pic.twitter.com/rDoDQX6z0y

— Esoteric Paladin JC (@OswaldCabel) January 14, 2017