Amelia Boynton Robinson Speaks on Faith

Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson speaks on the Kwanzaa Principle "Faith" during the last day of Kwanzaa 2008 in Tuskegee. History reveals that an Alabama state trooper teargassed and beat her down in Selma, on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, but law enforcement officers from Tuskegee, Macon and Dallas Counties, and The Department of Public Safety (state troopers) celebrated her 96th Birthday on August 18, 2007. This is nothing short of reconciliation at its best. Mrs. Robinson has long since forgiven law enforcement for the brutality she suffered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. She attended the late Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark's funeral last year to demonstrate that forgiveness. Sheriff Clark is reported as saying, shortly before his death, that if possible, he would do the same thing again. He was speaking of the bigoted brutality that he and his deputies did to Black's in Dallas County.

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