Clockwise from top left: Ajani Carr; Mike Mosby; Peniel Joseph; and Ed Whitfield.“We … deserve the chance to grow and to learn and to love others. And to be a person with a heartbeat, with a breath to take,” says 17-year-old Ajani Carr.
He is one of four men from three generations who have shared their experience of different stages of the civil rights movement in America in a powerful video for CNN. They explain what they think has changed, and what progress still needs to be made.
“I don’t feel afraid, I don’t live my life with fear, but I do live my life with caution,” says Peniel Joseph, 47.
Ed Whitfield, 70, recalls the activists involved in the civil rights movement in the 60s, such as Sammy Younge Jr, who was murdered in Selma, Alabama for using the “whites-only” restroom.
“Shot and killed, nothing was done,” says Whitfield. “So there’s nothing new about this part.”
Mike Mosby, 32, adds: “You would think it’s 1965, you know, like we just got out of segregation and now we’re trying for civil rights … That’s what it feels like.”
“I swear it’s like we’re stuck in a time capsule.”
Watch the video here:
Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/xl2hkSxkSbI/index.html
