dr. king could be saying that now tonight. listen closely, okay? no matter what you hear from all of these folks, changing the rules, blah, blah, blah, we change, we evolve, right? we amend. we no longer are in horse and buggies. people are saying get rid of fos fossil fuels. we keep i vevolving as a countr and world. why shouldn t the senate evolve? the filibuster has been used again and again to kill civil rights and voting legislation. that is a fact. nearly 39 years ago as a matter of fact on the senate floor, the filibuster was on display in an ugly attempt by senator jesse helms trying to block the bill declaring martin luther king day a federal holiday. the filibuster was eventually
people are saying get rid of fos fossil fuels. we keep evolving as a country and world. why shouldn t the senate evolve? the filibuster has been used again and again to kill civil rights and voting legislation. that is a fact. nearly 39 years ago as a matter of fact on the senate floor, the filibuster was on display in an ugly attempt by senator jesse helms trying to block the bill declaring martin luther king day a federal holiday. the filibuster was eventually broken in an overwhelming 72-22 vote by a republican controlled senate, republicans who ultimately stood up for what they knew was right. where are they now? where are those folks now? where are they when voting
juneteenth. one of the other things that s being recognized is just how many people fought for so long to make juneteenth a holiday, including ms. opal lee, the grandmother of juneteenth. she was at the ceremony at the white house on thursday. watch. we want people all over to understand that what we do together is so much more relevant than our pulling apart. if people knew what happened, if people understood what happened and could rectify that kind of thing and make people understand you need to know this history so we don t repeat it and heaven knows seems like we re repeating some of it. that last part of what she said in terms of knowing the history so we don t repeat it, it feels like the country s in a
goes from here politically. you can t acknowledge the past implications of juneteenth if you don t talk about the future. there are two things here to acknowledge. one is the gap between our willingness to and we are struggling at this very moment to even talk about the past in an accurate and full and complete way. but our willingness to then apply those same lessons or that information to the present seems to be where we are truly lacking as a country. so first and foremost, right, for anyone who is dubious about why congress would take this action this year, there are similar questions to be asked about every institution in america. where is your substantive action towards racial equity and progress? there is not an area of american life where there aren t legitimate questions to be asked and answer. that being said, there are also to return to what ms. opal lee said, there s something critical also to understand.
america. where is your substantive action towards racial equity and progress? there is not an area of american life where there aren t legitimate questions to be asked and answer. that being said, there are also to return to what ms. opal lee said, there s something critical also to understand. mark twain said history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme or often rhymes. truthfully, one of the reasons that the enslaved in texas were kept in bondage for two and a half years beyond the point that any other enslaved individuals in what was then the united states is not simply that texas was far, far away and information hard to come by, that most enslaved people were, in fact, unable toread and write by order of law. there were also a group of people, confederates, who not only recognized the united