Here's the 9 current Republicans who voted against MLK day
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Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. In response, a week later President Lyndon B. Johnson scrambled to sign into law the Fair Housing Act, a final major civil-rights bill that had languished for years under the strain of white backlash to the civil-rights movement.
Five years later a New York developer and his son—then only a few years out of college—became two of the first targets of a massive Department of Justice probefor an alleged violation of that landmark act. After a protracted, bitter lawsuit, facing a mountain of allegations that the two had engaged in segregating units and denying applications of black and Puerto Rican applicants, in 1975 Trump Management settled with the federal government and accepted the terms of a consent decree prohibiting discrimination. So entered Donald Trump onto the American stage.
Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. In response, a week later President Lyndon B. Johnson scrambled to sign into law the Fair Housing Act, a final major civil-rights bill that had languished for years under the strain of white backlash to the civil-rights movement.
Five years later a New York developer and his son—then only a few years out of college—became two of the first targets of a massive Department of Justice probefor an alleged violation of that landmark act. After a protracted, bitter lawsuit, facing a mountain of allegations that the two had engaged in segregating units and denying applications of black and Puerto Rican applicants, in 1975 Trump Management settled with the federal government and accepted the terms of a consent decree prohibiting discrimination. So entered Donald Trump onto the American stage.
Five Decades of White Backlash
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
In 2000, Utah became the last state to recognize MLK Day by name, the same year South Carolina became the final state to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday for employees.
While Alabama and Mississippi are the only states to combine Lee and King's day, the King holiday does go by different names. In Arizona, it's known as "Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day;" in Idaho, it's "Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Day;" and in New Hampshire it's "Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Day."
lol are we surprised?
well played
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
Not in the least, the transparency disgusts me
The differences in the mentality of population are frightening
pragmatism
amirite
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
Our conservative posters are oddly silent on this topic.I'm interested in their point of view.Somebody @ them, I can't remember all the names.
You think Democrats aren't racist too?
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
You think Democrats aren't racist too?
have you seen this MLK quote about white liberals? he was a republican, you know.
what about his thoughts on capitalism? he had speeches where he...
Yapdatfool
Superstar
as they should have with that anti-free market rabble-rouser.
LeetStickMcGee
Pro
It's always good to hold people like them accountable.