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MLK is a woman beater and a rapist. You do realize that those files and tapes will be released in just a few more years, right? All this MLK worship isnt going to date well when we hear MLK encouraging rape and then laughing as it takes place.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is lauded near-universally by politicians every year, but there are still three members serving in the U.S. Congress who voted against the King holiday — 2 at the federal level and 1 as a state legislator.
Then-President Ronald Reagan reluctantly signed the federal Martin Luther King holiday into law in November of 1983 after the U.S. Senate passed the bill by a 78-22 margin, while the House of Representatives had voted in favor of it by a margin of 338-90. That’s over 78 percent of those who voted, well above the two-thirds needed to override a veto.
The current members of Congress who joined Sen. Jesse Helms in voting against the holiday are all Republicans, although one was a Democrat at the time and later switched parties. They are: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY).
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) is the only other member to have voted against a King holiday, in 1999 and 2004, but at the state level.
As tempting as it is to view these votes as relics of a past that America has evolved well past, and could never happen these days, a new poll sheds some doubt on that proposition. The latest The Economist/YouGov poll shows that even fewer Republican voters support the King holiday today than did in 1983.
Asked “Do you think that Martin Luther King’s birthday should be a Federal Holiday?”, only 39 percent of Republicans said “yes,” MLK Day should be a federal holiday, with the remaining 61 percent either against it (36%) or not sure (23%).
Overall, 55 percent of respondents said “yes,” Martin Luther King’s birthday should be a Federal Holiday, with 24 percent responding “no” and another 21 percent saying they were “not sure.”
That’s less Republican support than an October, 1983 poll that found 48 percent of Republicans at the time favored establishing the law. Forty-two percent of Republicans were opposed, while 10 percent were “not sure.”
I wonder how many folks who think Dr. King's birthday shouldn't be a national holiday actually work on that Monday instead of taking it off.
Blah, blah, blah and you are a racist POS.MLK is a woman beater and a rapist.
There is nothing Dr. King could have done that compares to the right wing, racist folks you worship.You do realize that those files and tapes will be released in just a few more years, right? All this MLK worship isnt going to date well when we hear MLK encouraging rape and then laughing as it takes place.
So why is any other holiday a paid holiday if that is the case.
Poor little crybaby. BOY. The racist here is you you uninformed racist ass. Fuck off and crawl back under your bridge. Moron.Oh yea BOY, racist trash like you is disgusting. Go hang out with your Klan buddies today and talk about the Good Ole Days.
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No, im pretty sure that tape will more than push MLK to the top of the bad people list.Blah, blah, blah and you are a racist POS.
There is nothing Dr. King could have done that compares to the right wing, racist folks you worship.
Poor little crybaby. BOY. The racist here is you you uninformed racist ass. Fuck off and crawl back under your bridge. Moron.
The only one crying around here is you fuck boy. Take your racist ass to a Klan meeting, ignorant POS.
I'm upset because there isn't an Elvis Presley Day. He united folks of all color with his music.Tell us Struth why Republicans don't want to pay honor to Dr. King.
Black folks weren't listening to no damn Elvis Presley.I'm upset because there isn't an Elvis Presley Day. He united folks of all color with his music.
The fact is most black people love Elvis, especially black women.Black folks weren't listening to no damn Elvis Presley.
Keep telling yourself that bullshit.The fact is most black people love Elvis, especially black women.
It isn't bullshit. I know many black men & women and they almost all love Elvis. It is just a fact.Keep telling yourself that bullshit.
I'm black and I am pretty damn sure I know more black folks than you do and I can't think of any black folks that are Elvis fans.It isn't bullshit. I know many black men & women and they almost all love Elvis. It is just a fact.
You obviously don't know diddly squat. I have dated many black women and almost everyone of them love Elvis.I'm black and I am pretty damn sure I know more black folks than you do and I can't think of any black folks that are Elvis fans.
Many black folks were Republicans until the late 60s and 70s, why did that change?
Sure you have.You obviously don't know diddly squat. I have dated many black women and almost everyone of them love Elvis.
Yes I have and I enjoyed being with all of them.Sure you have.
