Jesse Jackson says President Trump would have been 'with the stormtroopers' on 'Bloody Sunday'
SELMA, Ala. — Famed civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, here to commemorate the 1965 voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, said he believes President Trump would probably have been on the side of the “storm troopers” who beat protesters in what has gone down in history as “Bloody Sunday.”
Jackson, a 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, was a close ally of Martin Luther King Jr., who helped lead the Selma marches. Jackson was attending the annual “Martin Luther King & Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast,” which also hosted several current Democratic presidential candidates. He began his comments by saying he was “deeply concerned” that Selma was “being used as a prop.” He describes the city as “the birthplace of modern democracy” and suggested the voting rights protests there led to a “new majority” in the country including minorities and young people.
Yahoo News asked Jackson if he felt the current presidential candidates were taking Selma’s needs seriously.
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