Harlem Shake

Student protesters in Egypt

It's a funny looking dance that would normally make the Americans who started shaking their booties look like silly dilettantes.  But it has evolved into a symbol of protest throughout the world. 

This week marks the 48th anniversary of the Selma civil rights protest that's known as Bloody Sunday.  Hundreds of civil rights demonstrators were attacked and many beaten viciously. One was killed.  Tear gas was used as well as charging horses.

March 7, 1965 - Bloody Sunday

Surely it is better to have a peaceful protest that is fun and incidentally good exercise than to resort to violence.  There will always be worthwhile causes to champion and there will always be brave and strong willed people who believe in them and put their bodies and booties on the line.

So Shake On!  Even if it's just in your own living room...

;-)