{"id":553,"date":"2023-01-18T12:54:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=553"},"modified":"2023-01-18T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:54:36","slug":"dems-tried-to-kill-64-civil-rights-act-but-accuse-gop-of-dishonoring-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"Dems tried to kill &#8217;64 Civil Rights Act, but accuse GOP of &#8216;dishonoring&#8217; MLK!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20600%20367'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mlk-martin-luther-king-blacks-blm-black-lives-matter-civil-rights.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris observe a moment of reflection, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mlk-martin-luther-king-blacks-blm-black-lives-matter-civil-rights.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mlk-martin-luther-king-blacks-blm-black-lives-matter-civil-rights-300x184.jpg 300w\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mlk-martin-luther-king-blacks-blm-black-lives-matter-civil-rights.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris observe a moment of reflection, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mlk-martin-luther-king-blacks-blm-black-lives-matter-civil-rights.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mlk-martin-luther-king-blacks-blm-black-lives-matter-civil-rights-300x184.jpg 300w\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"caption-attachment-4971170\">Joe Biden and Kamala Harris observe a moment of reflection, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mark Martin Luther King Day, some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2023\/01\/dishonoring-memory-republicans-get-told-not-quote-mlk\/\">prominent \u201ccivil rights activists\u201d are rebuking Republicans,<\/a>&nbsp;from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for quoting the civil rights leader\u2019s most famous statement ever about the virtues of a truly color-blind America. In his August 1963&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/transcript-of-martin-luther-king-jr-s-i-have-a-dream-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cI have a dream\u201d speech,<\/a>&nbsp;King powerfully appealed to the conscience of Americans when he said: \u201cI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet in an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/16\/martin-luther-king-dream-speech-colorblind-racism\" target=\"_blank\">article on Axios,<\/a>\u00a0Republican politicians citing King\u2019s memorable line are accused of misrepresenting and dishonoring MLK, and advised to stop. The article cites numerous scholars extoling critical race theory, affirmative action and other reverse-discrimination methods of achieving racial justice in America, claiming that King was sympathetic to these means, and that America is still \u201csystemically racist.\u201d Republicans and those on the political and cultural right, they believe, are holding America back from finally attaining true racial justice and equality, while the left, whose stronghold is today\u2019s Democratic Party, constitute the true champions of racial justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2023\/01\/gop-accused-dishonoring-mlk-dems-tried-kill-64-civil-rights-act\/\">https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2023\/01\/gop-accused-dishonoring-mlk-dems-tried-kill-64-civil-rights-act\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden and Kamala Harris observe a moment of reflection, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) To mark Martin Luther King Day, some&nbsp;prominent \u201ccivil rights activists\u201d are rebuking Republicans,&nbsp;from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for quoting the civil rights leader\u2019s most famous statement ever about the virtues of a truly color-blind America. In his August 1963&nbsp;\u201cI have a dream\u201d speech,&nbsp;King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}