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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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Your father is rolling in his grave listening to what you just said.
1 posted on 01/16/2023 12:36:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What voting rights? Hell, everyone in this country has the vote. Even the Deceased, and Illegal Aliens.


2 posted on 01/16/2023 12:38:31 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess “voting rights” now means allowing Democrats to vote for blacks by filling out ballots in their name without the bother of actually voting. That such policies benefit the black upper classes who disproportionately benefit from government jobs and administering “assistance” programs is not accidental.


3 posted on 01/16/2023 12:39:51 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What the heck is he talking about?


4 posted on 01/16/2023 12:40:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


5 posted on 01/16/2023 12:42:23 PM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The “Only Demonrats Can Ever Be Elected To Office Act of 2023.”


6 posted on 01/16/2023 12:42:37 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: pierrem15

voting makes no difference in democratic run cities...people who live there know the voting is rigged...how else do you run these cities for fifty years...in the old days when I was a lid they had walk away money...for voting


7 posted on 01/16/2023 12:45:04 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Special "rights" for Negroes destroys voting rights for all others. Every state in the USA has a similar procedure. I'm told that these people were flying helicopters around the Pyramids of Egypt, that they invented electricity, turned peanut butter into diamonds and emeralds. For such talented people they should be able to follow simple directions.

8 posted on 01/16/2023 12:45:09 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WTF is this crackhead talking about?


9 posted on 01/16/2023 12:46:36 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

For such talented people...


Don’t forget they developed advanced mathematics in Africa. And those darn Greeks came and stole it from them!

That is probably the most absurd claim I’ve heard.


10 posted on 01/16/2023 12:51:46 PM PST by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with CRT are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes, indeed! - MLK was a Republican and believed all people, including blacks, must be responsible and make things not easy but right!!


11 posted on 01/16/2023 12:53:14 PM PST by elpadre (W )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats and the deep-state have created a statist, elitist corrupt system of voting and financial fraud under cover of “civil rights.”


12 posted on 01/16/2023 12:55:17 PM PST by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

Remember how Biden and other Democrats said that the Georgia voter law was a return to Jim Crow laws? The liberal view is that there is voter suppression.

The actual facts do not matter. Only the liberal view of things matters to these people. The fact that voter turnout in Georgia was increased substantially after the passage of their voter law is An Inconvenient Truth to them. So they ignore such facts.

So Martin Luther King the third , who apparently makes a living off of his father’s Legacy, parrots back the liberal view that there’s voter suppression.


13 posted on 01/16/2023 12:56:55 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What absolute crap.

EVERYONE HAS VOTING RIGHTS.

SOME WANT TO GET RID OF PERSONAL IDENTIFICATIONS TO VOTE.

Democrats cheat, we ALL KNOW THAT.


14 posted on 01/16/2023 12:57:53 PM PST by Pearfect (o)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Never ending racial bigotry and animosity: the true legacy of Martin Luther Michael King and the misnamed, misbegotten "civil rights movement". The most racially bigoted people in America have one thing in common: dark skin.
15 posted on 01/16/2023 12:59:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: elpadre

For the 100,000th time, he was NOT a Republican.


16 posted on 01/16/2023 1:00:35 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: BenLurkin
What the heck is he talking about?

Does your ancestry primarily come from Europe? If so, he hates you. Because you're "White".

That's what he's talking about.

17 posted on 01/16/2023 1:00:47 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Little Marty is a dimwit. I think he’s well meaning, but box of rocks is smarter.


18 posted on 01/16/2023 1:01:35 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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To: EvilCapitalist

WTAF? Is he series? Dumbassery abounds. Dad is at about 3,800 rpm. Hey III.....🖕


19 posted on 01/16/2023 1:02:20 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: from occupied ga
I think he’s well meaning

That was "our" first mistake, 60 years ago.

20 posted on 01/16/2023 1:02:25 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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