{"id":973,"date":"2012-03-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/human-rights-and-american-rights-jc-cunningham-sclc-2012-03-22.html"},"modified":"2012-03-27T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:00:00","slug":"human-rights-and-american-rights-jc-cunningham-sclc-2012-03-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/human-rights-and-american-rights-jc-cunningham-sclc-2012-03-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Human rights and American rights &mdash;JC Cunningham @ SCLC 2012 03 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL81DD8F4FB070DB00\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/izK-ix5nMC8\/default.jpg\"\n><\/a>\nIt may have been a civil rights violation. But let&#8217;s talk about human rights violations. That young man was a human, and he deserved his human rights to be expected. And until we as a people \u2014 a people, black, white, Latino \u2014 come together and demand our human rights, this will continue to happen.\n<p>That young man didn&#8217;t deserve this because he was black. He didn&#8217;t deserve it because he was a human.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL81DD8F4FB070DB00\"> a playlist:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL81DD8F4FB070DB00\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe> <br \/> <small> Human rights and American rights \u2014JC Cunningham  <br \/> Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 March 2012. <br \/> Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE). <\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nMore excerpts:\n<blockquote>But they didn&#8217;t even respect basic human rights  basic American rights&#8230;.\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, we must write, we must continue to march, we must continue to speak, not amongst ourselves. Tonight I ask when you go home look to the right of you, to the left of you. I mean the houses to the right of you, the houses to the left of you. Ask them where they were tonight. Ask them what their thoughts are. What if it would have been their child. They would have been here. They would have been appalled if you were not here&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to talk to your white colleagues, don&#8217;t be afraid to talk to your hispanic colleagues. There&#8217;s nothing to be ashamed of to be out here and to demand, to demand your basic human rights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Excerpts: It may have been a civil rights violation. But let&#8217;s talk about human rights violations. That young man was a human, and he deserved his human rights to be expected. 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