protections and provisions. we have those today because of that march on washington. you know, there are things in place that protect people in case of employment discrimination, housing discrimination. federal funds can be withheld. there are things that protect people if their constitutional rights have been violated. the attorney general can institute injunctive relief suits. so these are the things we benefit from today because of the march on washington and the subsequent passing of the civil rights act, the voting rights act and the fair housing act. there are today if you are a black citizen in america, you have the right to register to vote at the age of 18, for the most part. there are certain exceptions to that if you, you know, have a felony, but for the most part you can register to vote. in 63 there were very few registered voters.
i mean, if we look at the fact that they made ten demands at that march on washington, the substance of a good percentage of those demands was about civil rights protections and provisions. we have those today because of that march on washington. you know, there are things in place that protect people in case of employment discrimination, housing discrimination. federal funds can be withheld. there are things that protect people if their constitutional rights have been violated. the attorney general can institute injunctive relief suits. so these are the things we benefit from today because of the march on washington and the subsequent passings of the civil rights act, the voting rights act and the fair housing act. there are today if you are a black citizen in america, you have the right to register to vote at the age of 18, for the most part.
at that march on washington, the substance of a good percentage of those demands was about civil rights protections and provisions. we have those today because of that march on washington. you know, there are things in place that protect people in case of employment discrimination, housing discrimination. federal funds can be withheld. there are things that protect people if their constitutional rights have been violated. the attorney general can institute injunctive release suits. so these are the things we have benefited from today because of the march on washington and the subsequent passings of the civil rights act, the voting rights act and the fair housing act. there are today if you are a black citizen in america, you have the right to register to vote at the age of 18, for the most part. there are certain exceptions to that if you, you know,
when he talked about some of the economic circumstances around the black community. a large part of what he was speaking when he got to i have a dream was not to leave people in hopelessness that, in spite of all of these difficult things, that we still have to fight in terms of racial and economic injustices and inequities. i still have a dream that one day we will live in this kind of world, and we ve made progress since then. i mean, if we look at the fact that they made ten demands at that march on washington, the substance of a good percentage of those demands was about civil rights protections and provisions. we have those today because of that march on washington. you know, there are things in place that protect people in case of employment discrimination, housing discrimination. federal funds can be withheld.
exercise clause of our constitution. the doj for you because this is the government. they are suing an american company because they hired too many americans. the unlawful employment discrimination based on their citizenship status page should not be one of them. this is a complicated employment law issue. spacex was hiring u.s. citizen and green card holders. if they were supposed to also b hiring asylum-seekers, that seems like up legal issue that probably could have worked out and a lot less dramatic fashion. it seems like unnecessarily harsh that an american company with a great product of something that probably could have been worked out behind closed doors probably three lawyers didn t have to go this far. and the meantime, it s the mugshots seem around the world.