Posted on 08/24/2021 2:10:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said the president’s possible gesture was admirable, but “we cannot just have symbolic progress.”
President Joe Biden got down on one knee in the East Room during the celebration of the 2021 WNBA champions Seattle Storm, on the eve of the vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in the House and days before the anniversary of the March on Washington.
While the WNBA has been at the forefront of professional basketball when it comes to issues of social justice and police reform, this is not the first time the president gotten down on one knee with a sports organization. One photo cited by a White House source pointed to a picture with the Los Angeles Dodgers, celebrating their Major League Baseball championship.
Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said the president’s possible gesture was admirable. However, Brown cautioned “we cannot just have symbolic progress.”
Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, said their focus remains on “passing comprehensive police reform on policy and voting rights,” and getting the president to recognize “that the filibuster has metaphorically had a knee on us for a long time.”
The House is poised to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act on Tuesday. South Carolina Congressman and House Majority Whip James Clyburn is expecting the bill to also pass in the Senate despite the filibuster still being in play in that chamber. The filibuster has been the delay tactic in getting voting rights passed in the Senate thus far.
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Watch out. I got shouted down today for posting what was thought to be a copyrighted image that wasn’t. This is an actual copyrighted image from the thou shall not post list. Just letting you know.
I can see the strings holding him up. Lowlife, demented sub-human garbage. Deserves to be hanged for sedition.
Let me rephrase. Should be hanged by his puppet strings.
I’ve been kicked off so many times, I’m using a name from the Clinton admin. Nice to see you back...
ROFL!!!!!!
I was once for a long time and deserved it.
Once for a week and deserved it :)
But that was forever ago.
The site, like many of us, has grown older.
Seems like yesterday it was 2001 and I was a 33 year old lad ready to take over the business world in NYC.
That never happened :)
I knew a lot of good lads from Staten Island during my days on Wall St.
The Guinea gangplank from Brooklyn to Staten Island and then to Jersey...LOL.
lol
Yeah, everyone else in my family moved to New Jersey.
We used to have GREAT parties in backyards with cheap beer, cheap hot dogs and no brand soda that were the best times of my life.
Now we have posh affairs in upscale restaurants that are stuffy as ##$$#$ and not NEARLY as fun as the old parties.
All the Italians moved out to NJ and now they think they are WASPs instead of WOPs :)
No offense meant to WASPs. Great people and the backbone of this country
It just makes me a little sad to see the Italian traditions drop off more and more with each generation.
But that’s as it should be in America.
Welcome back!
Hey thanks man :)
Hope you have been well.
That’s the 5th time I’ve typed that.
Nice to be remembered :)
Like I told some other folks, I just hid from the world for half a year...it was nice :)
But it had to end
You, Sir, are hard to forget. And that’s a good thing in your case. :-)
lol
Thanks!
You were kicked off of here????? I have known you for a long time and in all the while have never witnessed anything less than gentlemanly behavior.
These are stressful times are they not! From Covid to election fraud to our economy and now the Middle East, whats next before Civil War breaks out?
It’s good to see your return. Alas! we’ve lost so many
familiar faces and left with only memories.
Keep the Faith.
I find it absurd that people wearing masks will will pose for photos. I suppose they’re smiling under the mask. Insanity.
I noticed your absence. Welcome back!
I haven’t forgotten you either
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