Today the Tea Party Express rolled into Birmingham, Alabama - my hometown. Probably not a big surprise to anyone. But I'm absolutely shocked at the display that occurred in Kelly Ingram Park - right in the middle of the historic Civil Rights museum. Within feet of the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and the 16th Street Baptist Church - where four little girls were killed on September 15, 1963. . In the middle of Kelly Ingram Park where Dr. Martin Luther King and Fred Shuttlesworth organized demonstrations for real freedom. Where Bull Connor turned the firehouses and dogs on children.
"I'm here for freedom," said Pinson resident Tim Emala. "We need to get back to the Constitution. We seemed to have strayed away from it. The politicians need to read it."
You are talking about freedom in the same place that people marched because they were forced to sit on the back of the bus, and use separate restrooms and attend separate schools. This could have been held anywhere in Birmingham but it was held in the cradle of the Civil Rights District. Where people marched and protested for real rights. And now they are protesting against health care which should be a right not a privilege.
You had this stupid rally using kids as props within a stones throw of where four little girls died simply because of the color of their skin.
Here are some images of statutes that are actually in the park to memorialize the significance of what occurred in the park during the 1960's and the civil rights movement
Charlene Cannon of Birmingham does a good job summing up her feelings ,mine and I hope yours
"They say they're against taxation, it looks like it's a No-Obama rally. My thing is they could have had this anywhere else other than Kelly Ingram Park,"
