This weekend we saw a couple of thousand Americans  "march" and protests against Donald Trump. The place to address this is at the ballot box, not in the streets or on the nation's highways. 

Truth is what we're seeing isn't a real protest but a sponsored, organized, special interest agitation with none of the heart or sincerity of a real protest.

For proof look no further than your history book.

On this day in 1965, the Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. led a march of 3,200 people from Selma to Montgomery, Ala, to lobby for voter registration of blacks. It was his third march and the one directly responsible for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Here's how an article titled "Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Global Freedom Struggle" described the Selma-to-Montgomery march of 1965:

“The federally sanctioned march left Selma on 21 March. Protected by hundreds of federalized Alabama National Guardsmen and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, the demonstrators covered between 7 to 17 miles per day. Camping at night in supporters’ yards, they were entertained by celebrities such as Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. Limited by Judge Johnson’s order to 300 marchers over a stretch of two-lane highway, the number of demonstrators swelled on the last day to 25,000, accompanied by Assistant Attorneys General John Doar and Ramsey Clark, and former Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, among others."

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