‘Dr. Martin Luther King, An Infinite Way of Service’
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Who Voted Against the Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday?_1.19.15 ...And Ferguson Too!
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~"Ferguson is the new Selma - It's time, in Ferguson."~
Brothers and Sisters, Ladies and Gentlemen, Kids and Kiddies, take a moment and reflect on who it is that is bringing and/or brought pain and anguish to You and Yours. The 'Maafa' lays out a diagram of participants who have planned for year and years to eradicate "The Negro Problem!" How many of you remember the old 'Black-Sploitation Films' of the sixties and seventies? Do you remember the one with 'Fred Williamson,' Jim Kelly,' and 'Jim Brown?' The movie was called "Three The Hard Way!" The plan was about a plot of a white supremacist’s plan to get rid of all the 'Black and People of Color' in the United States. The movie played for a good number of years as well as the watered down version on television. The message was as profound then as it is today!
Brother Marcus Garvey wasn't missing the point was he? Are you going to miss the boat too?
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~'The Maafa' and 'The Lion of Judah From The House Of David'~
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Which Current Members of Congress Voted Against Making MLK Day a Federal Holiday?
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No. 3 House Republican Steve Scalise of Louisiana isn’t the only one who opposed honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
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Meredith Shiner
Yahoo News
In 1983, Congress voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation to honor the memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. by observing a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January. But not every elected official was onboard with the effort.
Now the decades-old issue of who opposed making MLK Day a holiday has returned to the political scene, as one House Republican leader has faced scrutiny for his opposition to the day in conjunction with a larger controversy over race.
New House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, came under fire last month for having voted twice against a state version of the holiday while serving in the local legislature. (The votes were unearthed as part of a larger story about a previously unreported speech Scalise delivered at a 2002 conference sponsored by a white-supremacist group.) Because many states took decades after the federal decision to implement MLK Day, Scalise’s votes against the holiday came late: He was one of six Louisiana statehouse members to vote against the holiday in 2004 and one of three to vote against it in 1999.
Rep. Steve Scalise (L) (R-LA) answers questions as Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) looks on during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Jan...
But Scalise is not the only lawmaker still in office — nor the only prominent politician — to have opposed the holiday. When the House voted 338-90 in August 1983 to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day, several members who would go on to become U.S. senators also voted “NO.”
Two current U.S. senators voted against the holiday during their time as representatives in the House: former GOP presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona and Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama. And four other men who went on to join the Senate (though they have now left it) opposed is as well: Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Larry Craig of Idaho and Phil Gramm of Texas.
Current House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) also voted against the MLK Day measure. Interestingly, so did Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, who decades later would emerge as the top Republican advocate in defense of the Voting Rights Act.
In October 1983, the Senate voted 78-22 in favor of establishing MLK Day, sending the bill to President Ronald Reagan’s desk. Current senators serving then who voted against the legislation include Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah.
President Ronald Reagan signs the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday into a national holiday, as Coretta Scott King watches, Nov. 2, 1983.
Most of the other notable opponents of the holiday have since left office, such as Republican Sen. Frank Murkowski of Alaska (current Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s father), former GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
So, too, have most of the day’s supporters, for that matter. Among the “Yes” votes in the House were former Vice President **** Cheney of Wyoming, former Democratic Senator and Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee and former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota (current Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was a “Yes,” too). Also gone are prominent Senate “yes” voters Bob Dole of Kansas, later the Republican presidential nominee, GOP Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle of Indiana and Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Of those still in office, current Republican Sens. Pat Roberts of Kansas and Dan Coats of Indiana voted as House members in favor of establishing the federal holiday, while long-serving Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi supported the measure in the Senate.
...Still Don't Believe The 'Maafa?'
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Steve Scalise, John McCain, Richard Shelby, Jim Jeffords, Judd Gregg, Larry Craig, Phil Gramm, Hal Rogers, Jim Sensenbrenner, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Frank Murkowski, Barry Goldwater, and Jesse Helms...
ALL Voted “NO!”
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~"Ferguson is the new Selma! "It's time, in Ferguson."~
Black Caucus members invoke MLK at Ferguson church service
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Associated Press
By
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Leading black members of Congress took to a church pulpit in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday to trace a direct link from Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy to the fight for criminal justice reform after recent fatal police shootings across the U.S.
Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. spoke to parishioners at Wellspring United Methodist Church, just blocks from where violent protests broke out after a Ferguson officer shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and again after a grand jury declined to indict the officer.
"We need to be outraged when local law enforcement and the justice system repeatedly allow young, unarmed black men to encounter police and then wind up dead with no consequences," the St. Louis Democrat said.
"Not just in Ferguson, but over and over again across this country."
Clay was joined by eight members of the Congressional Black Caucus at the service a day after several caucus members met with young protesters, many of whom have been critical of older elected officials and an earlier generation of activists.
On Sunday, he sharply criticized St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch's handling of the grand jury that investigated Brown's shooting. He cited an anonymous jury member's lawsuit seeking to publicly speak out about the grand jury proceedings, which aren't public. He also noted legal and ethical complaints filed over the prosecutor's actions, including allowing witnesses whose testimony had been discredited to testify before the jury.
But he expressed faith in two federal civil rights investigations examining Brown's death and broader police practices in Ferguson — invoking King's efforts a half-century ago that led to federal intervention in state and local civil rights cases. He also quoted King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
"We are faced with the obvious failure of local officials, who are either unable, or unwilling, to provide equal justice under the law," he said. "So once again, our community looks toward the federal government to make the promises enshrined in the Constitution finally ring true."
Caucus chairman Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a North Carolina Democrat, said the group planned to push for broad reforms, such as expanded police use of body cameras and independent investigations of fatal police shootings.
He called the prolonged protests over recent deaths — including Brown, Eric Garner in New York and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland — a "turning point in race relations." Garner died after being put in a chokehold by a New York City police officer during an arrest for allegedly selling cigarettes, while Rice was shot in a park while holding a pellet gun.
Protests have been ongoing in and around the St. Louis suburb since Brown's fatal shooting in August, though protesters have largely shifted their focus to changing laws in Washington and Missouri.
On the day before the federal holiday honoring King, Butterfield hailed the late civil rights leader's efforts to push for passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the subject of a new Hollywood film, "Selma." King led three voting-rights marches from the rural Alabama town to the state capital of Montgomery.
Rep. Andre Carson D-Indiana, echoed his colleagues' references."Ferguson is the new Selma," he said. "It's time, in Ferguson."
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“That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained and until the ignoble but unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique, and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and goodwill; until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace. We Africans will fight if necessary and we know that we shall win as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.”
~Sellassie~
(Translated from French to English ByRobert "Bob" Marley )
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