Posted on 08/29/2013 7:25:37 AM PDT by IbJensen
Fifty years ago Wednesday the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and shared his dream with the world.
As we pause to remember that iconic moment in our nation’s history, we should reflect on all the progress our country has made since the slain civil rights leader spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
At the same time we cannot and must not lose sight of the fact that there remains much to be done.
I wonder, for example, what Dr. King would have said or would have done after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that in essence gutted the country’s Voting Rights Act.
Earlier this year, a sharply divided High Court hammered a stake into the law that’s been guaranteeing equal access to the ballot since the time of Dr. King in the late 1960s.
For anyone to still say we no longer have voter suppression in this country — that would be naive. It may not be as blatant as it once was, but it’s there.
Just two years ago the Florida Legislature passed and Gov. Rick Scott signed a new law limiting early voting. The law included some other so-called reforms, as well.
Now the governor is pushing ahead with his program to purge from the state’s voter rolls people he says aren’t supposed to vote. Critics contend the move will result in citizens being intimidated, despite having every legal right to vote.
Dr. King believed that in a democracy like ours, every citizen has a fundamental right to vote. “So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself,” he said. “I cannot make up my mind — it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact — I can only submit to the edict of others.”
I agree. And until we as a country truly uphold this right we will not have realized the dream Dr. King so artfully articulated 50 years ago.
Bill Nelson is Florida’s senior U.S. senator.
And is, beyond a doubt, one of the most stupid senators ever. He is a Progressive socialist without knowing what that means.
In short, Nelson is the most pathetic excuse for a Senator.
Nelson forgot that it was the Democratic Party that gave us Jim Crow laws.
Nelson forgot that it was the Democratic Party that gave us the KKK.
Nelson forgot it was the Democratic party that block Civil Rights legislation being put forth in 1956 under Eisenhower. In fact it was LBJ that blocked it There was also a filibuster headed up by former Klansman Robert Bird.
Voter motor laws have let felons and other illegal votes to be cast.
It is shameful that because of the constant parade of liberal causes and issues like pedestalizing homosexuals King's dream has long since been forgotten.
Democrats dish up large helpings of communism, phony Social Justice, abortion rights, homosexual and lesbian rights.
It's too bad that, like the crab who can grow a new claw after one was harvested, Nelson is incapable of growing a new brain.
Nelson is right. Having to show an I.D. to buy beer, or smokes or to cash a check was not what MLK dreamed about!!!
Kennedy got the Blacks to stop voting Republican and start voting Democrat ,which put Blacks back on the Plantation
No argument here.
Nelson has a point...many jobs are not yet unionized.
We are judging them as Dr. King wished- by the content of their character.
nelson is a left-pandering worthless politician
but I repeat myself.
Blacks will never reach Dr. Kings dream.
Dr. King dreamed that one day people would not look at race but character.
Unfortunately Americans do look at character, and most blacks come up lacking.
Especially that lying Muslim POtus in the White House.
Right. Negroes will NEVER be allowed to reach Dr. King’s dream. They have become too immersed into depths that King would never dream of.
There will never be another negro president. The cleanup after this one will take eons.
It is true this man has been horrible, but he did not do it alone.
He has had the help of other Negroes such as Susan Rice, Eric Holder, Valerie Jarrett, and many others he appointed.
The Congressional Black caucus has added their ineptness also.
All in all we have seen the blacks at least those of the Obama regime are totally wrapped up in their racism to the point where they are incapable of high office.
95% of blacks would vote for this ineptness a third time if they had the opportunity. Even blacks which were considered the cream of the crop before Obama—blacks such as Colon Powell , Oprah, and Bill Cosby, have proven they are just run of the mill racists. Their loyalty to race far overshadowing heir intelligence.
The 95% have shown that only the 5% that haven’t fallen for this clown’s antics are capable of thinking on their own.
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