Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ka puta tahi a George W. Bush rāua ko Barack Obama i te Rāhoroi i Selma, i Alabama, i a rāua e whakanui ana i te 50 tau o ngā whakaekenga mana ā iwi hītori i whakatakoto i te rerenga mate mō te whakahāwea pōti. Ko ngā kaiārahi o mua, o nāianei hoki o Amerika me ō rātou whānau ka uru atu ki te rōpū kōngireti nui rawa atu i te taone o Alabama i te rā i mua i te haerenga ā-tau i runga i te Edmund Pettus Bridge e mihi ana ki ngā kaiwhakaatu 600 i tukinotia e ngā hoia kāwanatanga o Alabama i te 7 o Maehe 1965 i te mea e mōhiotia ana ināianei ko te Rātapu Toto. Ko te tukinga i hua i te whakatinanatanga tere o te Ture Tika Tika, i hainatia ki te ture i te marama o Akuhata o taua tau e te Perehitini o Lyndon B. Johnson. Ko te Perehitini Barack Obama, matau, me te Perehitini o mua a George W. Bush e whakaahuahia ana i konei i te taenga mai ki te huihuinga o te 2013 mo nga patunga o te 1998 US Embassy bombing i te Bombing Memorial i Dar Es Salaam i Tanzania. Ka puta tahi rāua i te Rāhoroi i Selma, Alabama, i a rāua e whakanui ana i te tau 50 o ngā whakaekenga mana ā iwi hītori, nāna i whakatakoto te rerenga mate mō te whakahāweatanga pōti. Ka tū te hīkoi i te Rātapu, i te 8 o Maehe, engari e hia mano e tūmanakohia ana ki Selma i te Rāhoroi ki te whakarongo ki te peresideni Obama ki te korero i te Edmund Pettus Bridge. Ko te haerenga ā-tau ki Selma, i whakahaerehia mai i te tau 1998 e te Faith and Politics Institute, ka mahia e 95 mema o te Kaunihera. Kei roto ko te 23 o nga Republican, te roopu nui rawa atu o nga kaipupuri ture mai i te roopu torangapu ki te haere mai mai i te haerenga tuatahi, e ai ki a USA Today. Ka ārahi ngā māngai o Alabama, ko Terri Sewell, he kaitōrangapū, ko Martha Roby, he kaitōrangapū, i te roopu, me te māngai o Georgia, ko John Lewis, he kaiuru i te haerenga tuatahi o te tau 1965. 'Kei te tino harikoa mātou kei te kohikohi te Whare Wānanga o te Whakapono me te Pūnaha i te tini o ngā mema o te kaunihera me ngā mema o te kaunihera i runga i te āhua o te rōpū e rua ki...
Ka kōrero a Obama i te rā i mua i te hīkoi ā-tau i runga i te Edmund Pettus Bridge e mihi ana ki ngā kaiwhakaatu 600 i tukinotia i te tau 1965. I whiua e ngā pirihimana o te kāwanatanga o Alabama ngā kaiwhakaatu i whai wāhi ki te huihuinga o te 7 o Poutu-te-rangi 1965 i runga i te mea e mōhiotia ana ināianei ko te Rātapu Toto. Ka haere hoki ngā mema 95 o te Kaunihera - tae atu ki ngā mema 23 o te Rōpū Reipa, te rōpū nui rawa mai i te rōpū tōrangapū ki te haere mai mai i te tau 1998.