Television
Sep 16, 2013
IN THE WAKE OF THE REV. AL SHARPTON AND MSNBC’S PRESENTATION OF “ADVANCING THE DREAM: LIVE FROM THE APOLLO,” WHICH AIRED ON SEPTEMBER 6, MIKE SPEAKS WITH THE REV. SHARPTON REFLECTING ON THE 1963 BOMBING OF THE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. “WE ARE NOW PART OF A TIME WHERE THE CULTURE IS SO ACCELERATED THAT WE THINK OF HISTORY AS LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. AND YET THIS WAS SUCH A SEMINAL MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY, OCCURRING A MONTH AFTER THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON [AND] TWO MONTHS PRIOR TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S DEATH. AND THE IMPACT OF THIS … PERHAPS THE FIRST RACIALLY MOTIVATED CRIME—A HORRENDOUS CRIME: THE MURDER OF FOUR YOUNG GIRLS—THAT IMPACTED THE NATION NORTH OF ALABAMA, NORTH OF MISSISSIPPI, NORTH OF THE SOUTH, WHERE THESE THINGS OCCURRED REGULARLY ON A SMALLER SCALE. BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE NATION REALLY SAID: “WOW,” SAYS MIKE. ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

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