#jfk library

^^^ This is what presidents used to sound like. They spoke in comprehensible complete sentences without quickly descending into idiocy and pettiness.

That's a short excerpt from a TV and radio address by John F. Kennedy from 11 June 1963. The subject of the speech was civil rights. The speech was prompted by events earlier that day when segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama attempted to block the enrollment of the first black students at University of Alabama. President Kennedy had to federalize the Alabama National Guard to ensure the registration of Vivian Malone and James Hood at the university.

This is the sort of history Donald Trump and his MAGA minions are trying to suppress – and even reverse.

Most of the libraries funds are gathered from donations and visitor admissions, not from government funding.

By sending immigrant refugees to northern states on false claims of work and housing, Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott are mirroring the 1962 playbook of the southern White Citizens’ Council who conducted “Reverse Freedom Rides” protesting desegregation by sending Black citizens to northern cities, with false claims of work and housing.

This is why the GQP is so determined to forbid schools from teaching anything more than a whitewashed American history. 

If one does not know the repeating patterns of history, it is hard to know how to combat what is happening in the present--or how present day actions might be a part of a larger, more threatening movement.

IS THIS REAL