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OPINION | RAOUF HALABY: The rocky road from Selma to Jerusalem
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Israel’s new prime minister Naftali Bennett holds a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem June 13.
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Despite its shortcomings as an historical portrayal of the rabid racism that plagued the 60s American South, CBS s June 20 broadcast of Ava DuVernay s Academy Award-winning film Selma presented a fair depiction of Dr. Martin L. King s role in African Americans struggle to earn the right to vote as sanctioned by the Constitution of the United States.
The movie s sanitized scenes of violence perpetrated by white police and politicians (including full-of-hate rural white citizens) are merely the tip of the iceberg of the panorama of bigotry, racism, lynchings, violence, and brutality perpetrated on American citizens whose ancestors were forcibly bought and brought in chains, holding pens, and cages to help make A
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