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Martin Luther King Jr.'s family has a message for Democratic lawmakers who refuse to stop their Republican counterparts' voter suppression efforts yet intend to shower pious praise on the slain civil rights leader's legacy this holiday weekend: Save it.King's son and the members of more than 80 grassroots organizations recently stressed that there ought to be"no celebration without legislation.
Their stubbornness allows"41 GOP senators representing just 21% of the country to block any effort to protect voting rights," as Mother Jones's Ari Berman recently put it.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said last Thursday that the Senate will take up voting rights legislation on Tuesday.
The GOP LEADER SHOWED HE DIDN’T CARE ABOUT EQUALITY, and the GOP FOLLOWED HIS LEAD! Breaking with his predecessors, Trump skips community service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, spends time on his golf course .
Why does the MLK family support the Democratic Marxist/Communist Party when those are the people who have been the oppressors of Blacks that MLK was fighting against. MLK wasn’t against America he was Anti Racist which the Democrats are using against our Constitutional Democracy.
Showing themselves to be powerless. A group of senators which is democratic that seems to have no power when it come to vote or legislation. Speaker of the House close to send it down to everybody come into agreement and give the power to the president.
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Gee that's funny I saw a member of his family (a niece) being interviewed earlier today who said we need to get beyond all the divisive rhetoric about so-called voter suppression. And she's right. I'ts nothing but a false narrative of Democratic party and their media allies.
Despicable spin . Democrats are doing everything possible to pass Voting Rights. They can't exactly hog-tie and force the immoral Republicans to do the same.
we had record turnout last election cycle. 🤔
how are their votes suppressed? They don't have mailboxes?
Noticed pundits+politicians who arrogantly opine POTUS’ 'tone' calling out the implicit racism in anti-Voter laws+resistance to strong Voter Rights look like people in no danger of THEIR Right to Vote stolen. Implicit “You (people of color) need 2 ask me nicely if you can vote”
Why do you keep giving Trump the one thing he wants? Attention. Stop showing anything he does. You aren’t helping!
NO CELEBRATION WITHOUT LEGISLATION!!!
Weekend? It's Monday.
Do they have anything to say about ballot harvesting and voter fraud ?
On MLKDay , memorializing the GREATEST Civil Rights leader in🇺🇸history, we must remember the far right-stuffed SCOTUS recently gutted the 1965 Civil Rights Act. And the JimCrow2.0 GOP is pulling out every form of VOTER SUPPRESSION, SUBVERSION & FRAUD‼️
What I as non American don’t understand is why black people believe in MLK sr but also vote Republican. If every black American would support Dems, the dream of MLK would become nearer.
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