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Martin Luther King III: ‘It may not be this year, but we’re gonna get there on voting rights’
The Hill ^ | 01/16/2023 | Julia Mueller

Posted on 01/16/2023 12:36:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The eldest son of the late Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday that the country is “gonna get there on voting rights” and deliver on his father’s legacy.

Martin Luther King III during an appearance on CNN critiqued restrictions that impede Americans from casting their ballots and said the country has work to do on shoring up voting legislation and making access to the polling place easier.

“It’s going to be quite difficult for any of that to happen with this Republican-led Congress, but we have to keep exerting pressure on them. Nothing happened in the modern Civil Rights movement until it happened,” he said.

“And so my point is, as we’re exerting pressure, we will get there. Now, It may not be this year, but we’re gonna get there on voting rights,” he added.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: king; rights; voting; year
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Special treatment is NOT equal treatment.


21 posted on 01/16/2023 1:03:28 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Re #1, the voting rights act of 1965 put this in concrete.what’s he flapping about?


22 posted on 01/16/2023 1:05:27 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Demiurge2

Q: Why does Martin Luther King inspire so much ugly sculpture?


I think it is because any public monument to him must be created by a ‘protected class’ who eschews any kind of traditional sculpture that might actually make him look good. But the DC sculpture of him looks positively inspired compared to the work unveiled in Boston—a pair of hands holding a giant turd. What was the sculptor and the people who commissioned it thinking?


23 posted on 01/16/2023 1:07:27 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He doesn’t really have any other hymn to sing except da reparashunz rap

So he just keeps parotting crap from ‘63


24 posted on 01/16/2023 1:07:38 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: pierrem15

EXACTLY!


25 posted on 01/16/2023 1:09:46 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have a dream. A dream where every legal American citizen, regardless of color, race, sexual orientation, can register to vote by the laws of the States wherein they reside without intimidation. Further, that person’s vote will be counted in a free and fair election that does not include illegal aliens, ballot harvesting, computer cheating, foreign governments interfering, ballot stuffing. The individual voice should be heard, and not diluted by illegal voting or voting practices. That is my dream.


26 posted on 01/16/2023 1:14:15 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think we got there..and kept going until we ended up in the swamp.


27 posted on 01/16/2023 1:23:51 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’ve got voting rights.


28 posted on 01/16/2023 1:25:32 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Regulator

Does he do the rumble voice,too?


29 posted on 01/16/2023 1:26:03 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Damn trouble maker.

He knows that everyone that wants to vote can vote and even some that are dead vote. He is just stirring chit like the poverty pimp that he is. Born with a chip on his shoulder and never will be happy. If everything is not served to him on a silver platter it isn’t enough.

Damn fool, liar and agitator.


30 posted on 01/16/2023 1:41:48 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Deepeasttx

The “cradle of civilization” still having tribal wars and no better off than they were 500 years ago.

If they didn’t have the white man to blame they would have to face up to their own failure.


31 posted on 01/16/2023 1:43:21 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Hojczyk

I guess we could say the Democratic Party has gone from denying blacks the vote to the convenience of voting for them.


32 posted on 01/16/2023 1:49:19 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: BenLurkin
What the heck is he talking about?

He is saying, "I sure miss the good old days on the white master's plantation and I want to see how we blacks can return to that bliss."

33 posted on 01/16/2023 1:58:40 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In that blacks are now outnumbered by Hispanics, and soon to be even more marginalized by illegals being handed voting “access”, he is using an outdated script. Voting needs to be tightened up so that only U.S. citizens can vote. The idea that any significant number of contemporary American black people of sound mind are too incapable to obtain a voter registration is ludicrous. He’s helping dig their grave as the “favored” minority.

It sounds like what he really wants is for felons/convicts to be able to vote. Everybody knows they are innocent, but persecuted by mean wipepo. /s


34 posted on 01/16/2023 2:07:00 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Waht the hell is he talking about?


35 posted on 01/16/2023 2:53:01 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: Demiurge2

MLK was one of the first winners of the Margaret Sanger award for abortion rights.


36 posted on 01/16/2023 2:55:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

At one point, whites had the vote and very few blacks were able to vote. The 15th amendment was supposed to ensure voting rights for black men but it wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that it became a reality everywhere. Maybe the progress MLK III wants is to take voting rights away from whites. In the past literacy tests were used to prevent blacks from voting (even when they were literate). Maybe he wants anti-racism tests—whites who fail the test would not be allowed to vote.


37 posted on 01/16/2023 4:37:19 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
I'm told that these people were flying helicopters around the Pyramids of Egypt

Not far from the truth about what they are teaching them. Back in the mid 80's in college I was waiting outside of a classroom for my class. The previous class was a black history class. The "professor" was telling the students that the blacks built the pyramids and they were used as communications platforms all across Africa and they were faster than the telegraph system that was built by the US in the 1800's - implying that the idea was stolen from the Africans. After the class a student went up to the "professor" in an outrage and yelled to the "professor" -" Doctor. I feel I was robbed !!!"

38 posted on 01/16/2023 6:07:04 PM PST by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Best post of the day. However… I am trying to reconcile what they say with reality. If people, of color or people of no color are working, banking or driving, then they have ID. If they can do those things then a simple registration and vote are a piece of cake.
The reality is, why do they speak as though citizens are hepless.. and why are people buying a lie.
Well.. it’s the same lie of old. Did God really say? Yes.. He did. In fact we are so darn closely related it shows up in Dr Nathaniel Jeansens genetic truths. 8 related people walked off the ark with their darn near perfect geonome.. and here we are.


39 posted on 01/16/2023 6:22:00 PM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: NorthMountain

I’m not saying anyone should pay attention to him, just that he’s too stupid to realize what a sham the whole radial grievance industry is. I don’t believe he’s a malicious POS like the Obamas or Jackson Lee.


40 posted on 01/16/2023 7:56:29 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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