Barack Obama might want to have a talk with @BarackObama, the OFA-run Twitter account that bears his name. It’s an honorable sentiment, but the men and women who marched on Bloody Sunday did so in 1965, not 1955.
@BarackObama do you mean 1965??
— Truman Brody-Boyd (@TrumanBrodyBoyd) March 7, 2014
@BarackObama 1965?
— Chris Diamond (@Chrispd92) March 7, 2014
@BarackObama You are 10 years off. Bloody Sunday was in 1965.
— jerylbier (@JerylBier) March 7, 2014
@barackobama Who am I to correct you Mr. President but I think the correct year of Bloody Sunday is 1965…
— Louis Valverde (@therealValverde) March 7, 2014
That still doesn’t line up with candidate Barack Obama’s claim that the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march inspired his parents to marry and have a child (who was born in 1961 — four years before the march).
(Hat tip: Jeryl Bier)
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