‘White supremacy still rules in US’

American political commentator Mickey Z. has said that white supremacy still rules in the United States and it is even worse than fifty years ago.

He made the comments while people in the US marked the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march.

The demonstrators on Sunday commemorated the march from Selma to Montgomery that resulted in a bloody confrontation between police and peaceful protesters on March 7, 1965.

In 1965, Alabama police beat protesters that helped bring about the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement.

The march “demonstrates this country’s love of denial because we mark anniversaries like this as if they are relics of the past, while white supremacy still rules and is perhaps more insidious than ever,” the author of “Occupy this Book” told Press TV on Monday.

“Fifty years later, we still have to be reminded that black lives matter,” he added.

The United States today is still the scene of protests against the police killings of unarmed African-Americans.

Mickey Z. also called on the protesters to honor the day, but “stop falling for the propaganda.”

“The United States is built on genocide and slavery and fancy words on Sunday afternoon reinforced this foundation of white supremacy,” the analyst said.

“These staged celebrations are just designed to distract us from the real issues that remain,” he concluded.

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