Martin Luther King, Jr. said a filibuster of civil rights legislation would be a “blatant abuse of the legislative and democratic process.”
(🎥 May 26th, 1964)
Dr. King said the upcoming March on Washington, where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, would be a direct response to a filibuster against civil rights legislation.
(🎥 August 12th, 1963)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said using the filibuster against civil rights legislation could lead to “chaos.”
MLK urged President Kennedy to act because “the South is thinking now in terms of talking the bill away, filibustering.”
(🎥: 1963 Interview)
MLK called a filibuster of civil rights legislation a “tragedy” used by “misguided Senators” who “do not represent the majority of the American people.”
(🎥 1963)
“There will be, I’m sure, a filibuster and we will definitely protest this.”
“…we are determined to see civil rights legislation.”
MLK announced the March on Washington was direct action against Senators blocking civil rights.
(🎥 1963)
“No compromise! No filibuster!”
Bayard Rustin, executive director for the March on Washington, demanded civil rights legislation and the right to vote.
(🎥 1963)
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Dr. King said the March on Washington, where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, would be a direct response to the filibuster.
(🎥 August 12th, 1963)
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed a filibuster of civil rights legislation would be a “blatant abuse of the legislative and democratic process.”
(🎥 May 26th, 1964)
MLK called a filibuster of civil rights legislation a “tragedy” used by “misguided Senators” who “do not represent the majority of the American people.”
1/ Dave Portnoy once said he was going to say racist things, and then Portnoy and his Barstool staff proceeded to say racist things about Colin Kaepernick.
No credible company or sports league should be partnering with Barstool.
2/ Dave Portnoy and Barstool said Colin Kaepernick had “terrorist skin,” “looks like a terrorist,” “isn’t really that Black” and his biracial and adopted situation “was all jacked up.”
🚨 Conservatives has been blaming New York fire deaths on the vaccine mandate, but it turns out FDNY has been organizing to fake injuries and sick outs to protest the mandate according to anti-vax protester Michael Bruno who works with the husband of a New York firefighter.
Just before this, another anti-vaxxer was discussing how “two people died in the Bronx because of the lack of firemen.”
Also, when she shared how SDNY wasn’t picking up trash, Michael Bruno celebrated with a fist pump.
These anti-vaxxers are supposedly pro health.
One NYC anti-vaxxer said she knows someone on “NYPD Chat” who said “a lot of NYPD called in sick” to protest the vaccine mandates.
Meet Anti-mask/vax activist Curtis Goldstein (@homesbycurtis) who harasses masked school children and their parents with his megaphone as they walk home from school.