Hunter Wallace
Occidental Dissent
January 16, 2017
I went back to Selma this morning to finish what I set out to do yesterday:
Montgomery
Good morning, gang. I got a cup of coffee and my civil rights marching boots on. We're going back to Selma #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Yesterday, it got dark on us too early. Today, https://t.co/2rs735idjr is bringing you the FULL and AUTHENTIC Selma experience
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Are you ready to follow in the footsteps of ' civil rights icon' John Lewis? #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Our Savior MLK had a dream in 1963. What does it look like after a trial of 54 years? #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I started in Montgomery where John Lewis led the Selma-To-Montgomery March through the west side of town to the Alabama State Capitol. I’ve found the photo of civil rights marchers urinating on command. Fake news isn’t limited to journalists. It includes historians who have sanitized the Civil Rights Movement:
@occdissent one of the best articles out there pic.twitter.com/teVB71y2tX
— Dr. White (@RealDoctorWhite) January 15, 2017
I will find a better way to publish these later #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/j6gQNPG0jT
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I visited the Freedom Rides Civil Rights Museum in 2011:
Montgomery's original Greyhound bus station has been turned into a civil rights shrine for the Freedom Riders pic.twitter.com/kT3wNcIbE7
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
This is Montgomery's current Greyhound bus station. I don't see the usual streetwalkers outside this morning! pic.twitter.com/9x6eJGtqu2
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
In 2011, I documented these billboards existed on the Selma-To-Montgomery National Historic Trail here, here and here:
In 2011, I snapped photos of billboards in West Montgomery on the Selma-To-Montgomery trail about STDs
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
It seems those billboards have fallen victim to Alexander Shunnarah. If you are from Alabama, you know what I am talking about!
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
West Montgomery is a dangerous, high-crime area. The overwhelming majority of murders in Montgomery take place here pic.twitter.com/nAqMeTkwEo
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
John Lewis marched through here though! The Montgomery Police are out on force on a Sunday morning #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
We're on the way back to Selma. Get your marching boots on! #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/OWi2Uhe7dj
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Lowndes County
The bulk of the Selma-To-Montgomery March took place in Lowndes County, AL.
As I noted in the previous article, there is nothing left of Lowndes County. It has been rewilding since blacks seized power in the 1970s. All that is left is a few bingo halls and some blighted buildings. John Lewis’s marching was more devastating to the local economy than Sherman’s March To the Sea. The National Park Service has built an Interpretative Center to explain why John Lewis is a ‘civil rights icon’.
I just stopped here to ask about John Lewis's marching, but no one was home pic.twitter.com/dA52NqBpy0
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Lowndes County has been rewilding since John Lewis marched through here. It is beautiful rural emptiness pic.twitter.com/asPc1ko70n
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
The National Park Service built an "Interpretative Center" to explain the John Lewis Narrative: pic.twitter.com/mh8lxSBCL8
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
The John Lewis marching economy in Lowndes County is … bingo, gambling. Is it racist to notice? LOL pic.twitter.com/dkoEAJuDNX
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I stopped here to ask what John Lewis's marching brought to Lowndes County. They must be off today #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/cmgrORuWdI
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
We're done with Lowndes County. 52 years later, all they got from John Lewis marching was bingo. Worse than Sherman's March To The Sea
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Ruins of Selma
When I first started documenting the Ruins of Selma in 2011, the Welcome to Selma sign hadn’t yet been destroyed:
Yes, this is still here pic.twitter.com/96mcdUVhTz
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
In 2011, this blighted building was still standing. I snapped a photo of a blighted Japanese restaurant which has since been torn down.
The blighted shopping center behind the Burger King in Selma has been torn down since 2011 #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/p9fuzOwUiF
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I'm getting tired from all this marching with John Lewis #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/BOtPctmprD
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
The Selma Mall appears to be on its last legs. Do you think it will make it to 2020?
Hopefully, John Lewis will come back to Selma to lead the March for Commerce! #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/bQJ202ynuh
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
The White man STOLE our economy. He STOLE IT! #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/S1hqQmUo7M
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Hey gang, I've found OPP a new Selma headquarters #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/2HF6PqKZTE
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
The demise of the Rite-Aid in Selma appears to be a recent development:
John Lewis, Selma needs a March for Rite-Aid #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/4WmkX5azwI
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
This creepy building is one of the reasons I had to come back to Selma. It reminds me of Negan’s headquarters, the Sanctuary, from AMC’s The Walking Dead. Except The Sanctuary still has windows in the zombie apocalypse:
John Lewis, I've found The Sanctuary from AMC's The Walking Dead. It's in Selma #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/g8w1yqCIPR
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Last night, I saw a bunch of Orthodox Jews walking through Selma. That struck me as strange. I’ve never seen that many Jews in Selma before. It turns out a group of 100 Orthodox Jews from Washington were in Selma to visit the 7 Jews still left in the city. The Jewish community in Selma is nearly extinct in 2017.
The Jews have left Selma. John Lewis marched through the local economy #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/3twvFZ8ixT
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
This is why ‘Bloody Sunday’ happened in the first place. The White people of Selma were defending their town from John Lewis’s marching and trying to stop him from destroying the local economy:
Selma used to be a pretty nice place to live. That's why John Lewis encountered resistance #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/CWuBlghFaf
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
It made me sick to drive around Selma’s Historic District and see this:
Unfortunately, John Lewis's marching has depopulated and blighted Selma. Make Selma Great Again! #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/bJmVjfEewb
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
John Lewis marched … behold, the future #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/D4R4A8SsDD
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Selma Billboards
In 2011, I snapped photos of an STD billboard and the hilarious “I am Powerful” billboard in Selma.
Minnie B. Anderson Homes
The ruins of Craig Air Force Base in Selma have become a war zone.
Amazingly, there are people who live in the Minnie B. Anderson homes in these conditions. This is where President Obama landed in Selma to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act:
In the 52nd year of Our Savior MLK, Selma is BOOMING and MARCHING pic.twitter.com/oLKftFKJfA
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
@repjohnlewis It's the Current Year in Selma #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/kJC42nXxk4
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
@repjohnlewis has been marching through Selma for over 50 years. This is how people live there pic.twitter.com/D7XXWkkBfX
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Shrines
John Lewis has his own weird shrine at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge:
We're back in Selma, gang. This is the John Lewis shrine #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/Bb080qm2JA
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
This looks pretty cool. A black power shrine #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/8m2HwbGNR9
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
A mural depicting the martyrs and the saints at the foot of the magic bridge #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/K6YoZprIvB
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Selma Is Violent
In 2015, Selma was the fourth most dangerous city in Alabama with the third highest number of murders per capita and the fourth highest number of property crimes. When I visited Selma on Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, the headline in the local newspaper was that another body had been found:
@occdissent You must capture image of "No Violence" yard signs in 80% black Selma, encouraging no more black violence. #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/F8NSaBccE0
— Paul Kersey (@sbpdl) January 15, 2017
@sbpdl Look what I have already found before I even crossed the magic bridge #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/ZLo6Gif87n
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Why have White people abandoned Selma? The high crime and John Lewis's marching #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/g1RhCiqQJk
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I just stopped to read the latest news in Selma #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/sajEW1Insx
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I heard the Crown Chicken got shot up in Selma #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/KdHUDH2iTj
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Black Fictional Images
SBDPL.com reported that the Walton Theater was reopened for the premiere of the Selma movie. It is a welfare theater sustained by Oprah Winfrey’s charity. When I was in Selma this morning, it was playing the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ which is another black fictional image like ‘Django Unchained’:
It's good to see the Walton Theater is still open in Selma. A new black fictional image is playing #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/yh36L8rEda
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
This theaters history is incredible. Whites built it, blacks forced its closure. Was reopened for showing of "Selma" in 2015 by Oprah. https://t.co/ZcPGbtKxqc
— Paul Kersey (@sbpdl) January 15, 2017
The March Route In Selma
The Selma-To-Montgomery March started at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church. John Lewis led a mob out of the George Washington Carver projects directly across the street to the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the famous confrontation was filmed by the Lügenpresse and spun to the world as a morality tale:
John Lewis led the 1965 march out of the George Washington Carver projects in Selma #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/DQki0bF8Ls
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
In The Current Year, these blighted houses which have been stripped of copper wiring and tagged with graffiti inside can be found along John Lewis’s marching route through Selma:
About to follow in the footsteps of John Lewis #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/u4VkAAKJHG
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Following in the footsteps of John Lewis #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/SYGrGPfFIJ
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
John Lewis marched down the street right next to this house in 1965 pic.twitter.com/jrEKbMXNQy
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Leaving Selma
Why isn’t there a Starbucks in Selma?
You would think there would be a Starbucks in light of all the conversations about race you can have on any given day in Selma. Tourists come from all over the country and the world to visit Selma. They come to walk over the magic bridge in the footsteps of ‘civil rights icon’ John Lewis. And yet, there seems to be no commercial activity any kind in downtown Selma. John Lewis destroyed the economy:
Bye Selma! Heading back to civilization now #TruthAboutSelma #WeWuzKangz pic.twitter.com/f88fQLncrj
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I'm a smart, sophisticated progressive. I read the Lügenpresse. I'm not one of those *ignorant* rednecks #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Yes, there are no Starbucks in Selma, even though there are no shortages of conversations about race! #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I propose a toast in honor of our conversation about race #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/IL5BxQHBIz
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
I had to drive 75 miles back home to get this one, gang! Selma in the Current Year lacks the capacity to sustain one #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Will John Lewis hold a March for Starbucks in Selma? Plenty of downtown real estate is available #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Why is there no economy? Why is there no jobs? John Lewis marched. White man STOLE IT! #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
Lord Kek observes Selma voted for Obama twice. That's the way he is leaving it. Trumps a racist do #TruthAboutSelma
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
The Alt-Right Marches Through Selma
In 2011, I visited Selma to document the decline and all I found was tumbleweeds. That’s what I found again six years later in Selma. John Lewis parachutes in for the annual photo op, walks over the magic bridge with politicians like President Obama and the fake news Lügenpresse never tells the country what is going on because the truth about Selma doesn’t fit the Narrative:
I'm preparing to follow John Lewis and march for civil rights in The Current Year #TruthAboutSelma pic.twitter.com/nUgEsvQ3i5
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017
In order to put an exclamation point on the myth of ‘civil rights icon’ John Lewis, I marched through downtown Selma a second time on Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend to show … it is a ghost town:
The Truth About Selma: Following In The Footsteps of John Lewis https://t.co/8hzjXOVLcp
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) January 15, 2017