Here's the 9 current Republicans who voted against MLK day

[Geek Nasty]

The thought that some of htose guys been sitting on seats for 35 years

 

[Serious]

When Arizona lost the Super Bowl because the state didn’t recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The big game was moved to Los Angeles because state voters refused to honor MLK Day as paid holiday

On March 19, 1991, NFL owners voted to remove the 1993 Super Bowl from Phoenix after Arizona voters failed to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.

The NFL originally awarded the game to the Arizona Cardinals and owner Bill Bidwill on March 13, 1990. Before the state vote on the King holiday in November 1990, Bidwill expressed confidence that the legislation would pass.

“I believe the political situation in Phoenix has changed dramatically,” Bidwill told The Associated Press.

Two yes/no referendums on MLK Day were on the ballot, and both were defeated. The league had been upfront about what would happen if the paid holiday was not enacted.

“We should remove the game from political controversy and avoid being made a target,” then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue told the Chicago Tribune. “So long as it is in Arizona and the alleged controversy is unresolved, people will reach out and use us as a target.

“We’re not infallible. It’s a complicated situation. I don’t think we did very much wrong. The problem existed long before we arrived on the scene.”

Then-President Ronald Reagan signed the bill that established the first national holiday in honor of King in 1986, and then-Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt followed suit.

Babbitt’s successor, Gov. Evan Mecham, rescinded that decision in 1987, explaining that the governor didn’t have the authority to decide by himself on a new paid state holiday.

At the time, only 3 percent of Arizona’s population was black, but most of the players in the NFL were African-American.

King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, musicians Stevie Wonder, Public Enemy and U2, and writer Harlan Ellison led a charge for events and talent to boycott the state, and in 1988, Mecham was impeached. A year later, the state legislature approved the holiday, but Arizona’s constitution required a popular vote.

Even though the league was aware of the political climate in the state, the owners voted 16-12 to give Phoenix the game in kindness to Bidwill and his family, who had been in the league for more than 50 years.

Norman Braman, then-owner of the Philadelphia Eagles and chairman of the site selection committee, was open about having the game relocated if the holiday wasn’t approved.

“I think it’s tragic for the people who worked so hard to get the game there,” Braman told The Washington Post. “But I think it would be an affront to our public and our players if the game was played there.”

Los Angeles, which had hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1987 Super Bowl, was awarded the Super Bowl with the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, as the host venue. It was estimated that the Phoenix-area economy missed out on nearly $200 million to $250 million in revenue.

“I know we can support this important game and provide the amenities necessary for a gala on the scale of the 1984 Olympic Games,” Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley told The Associated Press. “In addition, the 1993 Super Bowl will provide an economic bonanza to the Southern California region as it embarks on the preparations for this incomparable event.”

While the league was able to resolve the issue during that instance, Arizona was on tap to host the Super Bowl in 1996 as a compromise between Tagliabue and then-Arizona Gov. Fife Symington. It was important to the commissioner that the league pay close attention to the civil rights issue and respond accordingly.

In 1992, the holiday was again placed on the ballot, and with 62 percent approval, Arizona recognized MLK Day, and the 1996 Super Bowl was played at Sun Devil Stadium.
When Arizona lost the Super Bowl because the state didn’t recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day

@LesterDiamond @NZA @MooseMouthMthafuga

 

[LesterDiamond]

@LesterDiamond @NZA @MooseMouthMthafuga

I was a baby at the time. Who the fukk wouldn’t want a paid holiday?

 

[Serious]

I was a baby at the time. Who the fukk wouldn’t want a paid holiday?

The cacs in your state
The hate is real

 

[AndroidHero]

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...

Funny thing is conservatives claim MLK was a Republican but the truth is he wasn't and this is what he thought about them.

"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right"

"I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy."

And this is what he said about conservative messiah Roland Reagan.

"When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor can become a leading war hawk candidate for the Presidency, only the irrationalities induced by a war psychosis can explain such a melancholy turn of events."

No, Martin Luther King Jr. was not a Republican — but here’s what he had to say about them

 

[hashmander]

Funny thing is conservatives claim MLK was a Republican but the truth is he wasn't and this is what he thought about them.

"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right"

"I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy."

And this is what he said about conservative messiah Roland Reagan.

"When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor can become a leading war hawk candidate for the Presidency, only the irrationalities induced by a war psychosis can explain such a melancholy turn of events."

No, Martin Luther King Jr. was not a Republican — but here’s what he had to say about them

the thing is even if he was, the republican party isn't the same party it was prior to the philosophical change at the cow palace convention that he talks about in those quotes. the two political parties today are nothing like they were back then. a 1960 black republican is not the same as a 2018 black republican, back then the dixiecrats still had a home in the democratic party.

 

[Gains]

this devil ......

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

@LesterDiamond @NZA @MooseMouthMthafuga

It always and forever will be fukk AZ.I hated that place when

my mom forced us to move out there when my grandmother got sick.

Imagine going from the cool, mellow California life

to a hot, spiritually chastising desert.Place is really taxing on your mental.

If you end up in AZ, you're going through a transition in life.

More than likely, falling to pieces, and rising from the ashes.

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

From an elemental level, it's tough....strange...paranormal.

And the white folks are the most stubborn with the hate.

Fukk em

 

[NZA]

@LesterDiamond @NZA @MooseMouthMthafuga

i still had to work king day

in 92 i was 11 years old. didnt know much about what was going on but i had heard about gov mecham having been a racist (he referred to black children as pickaninnies).

the state is pretty wack culturally but im slowly establishing myself. i kinda hate the fact that i went to college here instead of trying out some place new. being born, raised, and educated in arizona might be bad for your sense of community in some ways - especially as a black man. but then again when i look at the huge ghettos and over the top treatment blacks deal with in states where the black populations are larger, i do gain some appreciation for the little bit of breathing room we can get here. arizona cacs are more concerned with mexicans than us.

im torn...

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Ya mccain could die now

 

[jj23]

Thanks for this guys. Good info, never knew this.

 

[Fenian]

This is why people need to stop trying to separate trump from the "normal" republicans. They all agree with him, they're just more careful of what they say in public. These pieces of shyt are using trump to try and rehab to image of bush fukk sake.

Literally anyone who votes republican or is a party member is scum plain and simple. There isn't any such thing as a "reasonable Republican" they're selfish racist bigots to a man

 

[BillBanneker]

These scumbags are still in power.

And Democrats are still reaching across the aisle to them.



Here are the nine current GOP members of Congress who voted against MLK Day

Yeah, media trying to present Trump as some sort of "out of the norm" when most of these long-standing republicans actual legislative actions are pretty similar.

Saw the same shyt on morning joe with them decrying trump by posting a reagan speech about MLK day

 

[tru_m.a.c]

 

[the cac mamba]

The big game was moved to Los Angeles because state voters refused to honor MLK Day as paid holiday

how deep does your racism have to be to vote against a paid holiday

like i...what the fukk else other explanation is there? jesus christ