Victor Ray is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN.
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice." Victor RayIn 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote these words in the isolation of a Birmingham jail, where he was imprisoned for defying a court injunction to protest the city's segregation ordinance. In an open letter, initially scrawled in the margins of a newspaper, Dr. King addressed a group of fellow clergymen who claimed to support the Black freedom movement but criticized nonviolent civil disobedience as a tactic to confront the evils of segregation.
That quote applies to the HouseDemocrats who vilify the progressives, SenateDems who want to hang on to the filibuster, and POTUS himself, who ignored voting rights for an entire year because he sees it as a “you people” problem, and we should wait until he’s ready to help. 🙄
Failed 20th Century ultra-partisan policy over the last sixty years maintained the conditions where we still desperately need to address Voting Rights. Not moderates who have dwindled to a handful now from the hundreds in Congress MLK criticized for lacking a sense of urgency.
Is there a way that these two can be severely punished.
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Lots of them conservative democrats each one expose
A great Republican!
Actually they are the real patriots. You wouldn’t understand.
It only shows that Mitch McConnell is the REAL Senate Majority in the Senate, and that Chuck Shumer is just going thru the motions. These two Democrats are intentionally sabotaging Biden's agenda, no doubt in my mind, for the sake of the GOP.
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This is misleading. What is stopping any citizen from voting as soon as they re legally allowed to vote? It amazes that some are saying oh they can t get an ID. If that s too hard for someone then they shouldn t vote. Also make the bill public so people see exactly what s in it
Nothing moderate about them. They're racist. Call them what they are.
Please don't forget to vilify ALL 50 Republican senators who voted against.
Here racism is in the constitution in congress and what is worse in the essence of those who feel WHITE supremacy. They are liars and discriminatory
I mean really this is why y’all have no viewers what people can’t vote please elaborate if you have a ID and are registered you can vote but nice try
Train wreck cnn. end looks like sooner than i thought.
Joe manchin
Fakes news.
Naaaa all we need is an ID for voter eligibility. Just like one needs a Vax card to access lots of things.
They are Republicans.
Who can't vote?
If you ever wonder why Manchin and Sinema act the way they do…bribery and corruption from the Koch Network. RETWEET!
Waiting on your coverage of the new governor, Lieutenant Governor and AG of Virginia. Such diversity. Do your job.
Republicans want to make it harder for minority areas to have easy access to vote, and make mail-in ballots harder which affects disabled & elderly people. Republicans also want to make law where they can change the outcome of the vote in their favor. This is not democracy.
More fake news and fear mongering. Another white guy trying to get his credentials.
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Wow, pretty racist!
Good decision by Manchin
Yup
MLK was not a democrat. He and Malcom spoke out against the party as it's traditionally been interested with racists. Jim Crow, gun legislation so blacks couldn't own guns, the KKK these r examples of the democratic parties legacy that has been white washed to use blacks
Dr. King said he dreamed that people would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. So why are leftists OBSESSED with skin color?
We are not a democracy. That's a myth. We are a capitalist society. Money is god in these United States. We pledge allegiance to profit. Everything we do or say is measured by the almighty dollar. Prove me wrong.
Be more worried about the white liberals Malcom X was talking about. You'll find a lot of them at CNN.
Sure can't have common sense while in the Senate now can we so it must be racist!
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