Note: this is going up a lot later than I had hoped, since my article just now got posted
Over at The Huffington Post, I've written a follow-up [and you should definitely read it] to the story I called attention to over here a couple days ago; there, it was discussed that Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield recently scribbled down a few sad and indignant paragraphs on his blog after humanitarian and utterly awesome restaurant-owner Martha Boggs asked him to eat elsewhere (her business is doing very well after her heroic actions.) In his literary masterwork, he offered us insight into his ideas about oppression and the Civil Rights Movement, informing us readers that he guesses "some people still support segregation" and that the treatment he was subjected to violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
I know what you're thinking. But... wait.
Maybe he's onto something here:
Given the long history of civil rights violations against that unpopular minority (including, but not limited to, the destruction of their First Amendment rights on a staggering level), the intense, state-sanctioned campaign of violence and terrorism waged against this innocent minority relentlessly for over a century, and the systematic separation of these human beings from the rest of civilization through our laws and institutions, it was inevitable that someone would eventually take up this fight for the reinstatement of their civil rights.
So I'm going to help him out. I've created a Facebook page, Sit-ins for Stacey, where I've let my Huffington Post readers know there will be lots of action today. I hope you'll all join my effort to help him fight his oppression. Once you've joined, tell all your friends. Get them to tell their friends. As I say to my readers: