'History will be watching what happens tomorrow': King family demands Senate pass voting rights legislation

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The family of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday demanded the Senate pass voting rights legislation and said lawmakers who truly honor the late civil rights leader's legacy must stand on the right side of history.

"No matter what happens tomorrow, we must keep the pressure on and say no more empty words. Don't tell us what you believe in, show us with your votes. History will be watching what happens tomorrow," Martin Luther King III, son of Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech in Washington, DC."Black and brown Americans will be watching what happens tomorrow.

'Whose side are you on?'During the National Action Network's annual breakfast honoring King on Monday, Biden echoed the same message he delivered in Georgia last week where he said lawmakers must choose to stand on the side of civil rights leaders such as King or on the side of segregationists like former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.

 

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Steel votes during election & now change laws to steal more votes with fake right to vote law-Good Americans stop them from destroying all that was built in USA, its culture, its integrity & it democracy - these democrats are so corrupt. the must do more corruption to cover up

Government workers got a free paid day off in memory of Dr. King. That's all he will probably get.

All I see are liars invoking the name of MLK

It amazes me, when I read the comments here, that so many people do not understand what the voting issue is about. It's much more than about voters I.D..Maybe before you make idiotic comments, you try to get an understanding of what you're commenting on or about

Facts are stubborn things!

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just click and register earn some money

Demaned oooooh that should make them shiver!!!

Let’s see if potus will pass any executive orders to help his constituents. What does he have have to lose?

Bull crap

I love MLK but he denied the deity of Christ, I believe he was saved in spite of bad doctrine, I believe brother Malcom x was also saved in spite of his doctrine. They both knew the Son of Man God bless you all with grace and peace immutable

If your to lazy to vote it wont matter

The 'right side of history,' according to MLK, would be to end this nonsense about allowing voters to cast ballots without having an ID to prove who they are. MLK would have been a staunch Republican in 2022.

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Oh well if they say so…

I doubt it if the family wants a federal takeover of elections

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Yes! Demand those damn Senate Republicans get the bill passed and stop putting all the damn blame on Biden. Biden is getting the job done for the working class. So rescue him outta those BS Low Approval Ratings.

voting rights are very important if we could vote for whoever we wanted to ... the voting process now is more like a forced multiple choice question RealNews

Only citizens should vote. It is easier to get a voter id than to get drugs

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As if they are stopping people to vote, no to federalized elections, they just want to make it easier for voting fraud.

yea rite n’s

Step up 100 SENATORS

Practice what you preach.

Do you actually get people to believe this BS?

What other rights do you need to vote as long as you are a American citizen 18 years old and have a residence you can vote what's not right...

Demanded? Someone should tell them that that's not how our system works. A law isn't passed just because 1 family demands it.

CNN is pulling out all the stops to back their hand selected candidate, Biden. Because a few individuals say they want this and try to intimidate members of congress if they refuse, we MUST listen to them. The left will stop at nothing to change the rules to get what they want.

And the outcome after the sickening right wing quotations from his legacy will be to deny voting from people of color. The fight will go on.

What right side of history that only African American lives matter, has he read the democratic voting bills, that will take away the rights of citizens to elect their President

Demand or what? Empty threats and shackled to the Democratic Party.

MLK would be smart enough to know the “voting rights” Dems are pushing are a sham.

Tell us about kings womanizing past. He’d get roasted in 2022

Stand on the right side of the history...

Sinema-Manchin Simular-Mansion They have a lot in common don’t they? E pluribus unum privilege

But... they are on the right side...

I need an ID to go to a restaurant but not to vote?

Demand, well I guess that's it.

Republicans have no interest in honoring MLK’s memory and works. All minorities should remember the actions of the Republican senators.

What is this legislation about?

FakeNewsAlert Would like someone to explain in detail what rights are being denied progressiveLies

I wonder what the elites would do if all the peasants in the USA asked for democracy

So who cannot vote?

What history, today's or tomorrow's. We need to define these things. We don't live in yesterday any more. We live in tomorrow. Today is messed up, just as yesterday. Tomorrow doesn't look good either. Heck today looks better than tomorrow.

Your dad would not a Democrat, why are you?

Get over just bring an ID to vote. That’s all there saying

The current bills as written, would allow 30 million non-citizens to cast votes: that's not only wrong but it's un-American; if an American citizen wants to vote they can and should; stop the lies

😂😂😂 they “DEMAND” 😂😂😂

The right side… remember, the right..

The Democrats haven’t been this upset since we took their slaves away.

I’ve had the privilege to have gone to Martin Luther King Junior‘s school in Chicago Illinois. It was a great honor. So today and everyday I wish the world peace and prosperity in his honor. And I will always keep the faith that his DREAM will come true for all of us someday.🙏🇺🇸

No one cares

Demanded...

Most are unconcerned about history. they are willing to propagandize their viewpoints to the detriment of our country. The Dems don't understand how to use propaganda to their benefit or are unwilling to do so. They better wake up...NOW!

The GOP does NOT want every eligible American to be able to vote, period! That is why they refuse to support voting rights! They know that the more Americans who actually vote, the GOP will likely lose! They want their power back.

I really can’t believe there are that many simple people still out there complaining about this. It’s a bill to guarantee people can vote, down south it’s still very hard to vote if you’re not white

Umm everyone has voting rights, if they are a citizen.

Who doesn’t have the right to vote

Black people cant vote?

Simple - Legal America Citizen can vote - just show your ID . How fucking simple is that ?

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What are they trying to pass. I thought legal citizens have the right to vote.

Call them out by name! Especially the 16 who in 2006 voted For voting rights!

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I demand the senate not to pass it......so where we go from here lol.

All US citizens already have the right to vote, ya just gotta prove you’re a citizen, pretty simple.

Well, there you go. They demanded it, should vote immediately.

LOL now Democrats using the Death of thiis fine gentleman to further their cause. Is there no low they will go to .....

Too bag no one watches CNN anymore.

so hard to vote they show a video on how to.. insanity enough it's not that long of a video.

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