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Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights
AP ^ | March 5, 2023 | AAMER MADHANI and KIM CHANDLER

Posted on 03/05/2023 6:43:49 AM PST by McGruff

President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago.

The visit to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday also is an opportunity for Biden to speak directly to the current generation of civil rights activists. Many feel dejected because Biden has been unable to make good on a campaign pledge to bolster voting rights and are eager to see his administration keep the issue in the spotlight.

Biden intends to use his remarks to underscore the importance of commemorating Bloody Sunday so that history can’t be erased, while making the case that the fight for voting rights remains integral to delivering economic justice and civil rights for Black Americans, according to White House officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: hairsniffer; kiddiediddler; selma; thereareonlyballots
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1 posted on 03/05/2023 6:43:49 AM PST by McGruff
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‘Cause dem black folks don’t know how to sign up to vote or get on a ‘puter and stuff. 🤔🐂💩 How much easier could it be?


2 posted on 03/05/2023 6:45:49 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: everyone

In an interview on “The Breakfast Club” that aired Friday morning, Biden responded to a question from the show’s co-host, Charlamagne tha God, by saying that, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” He walked back those remarks hours later, acknowledging in a campaign call with black business leaders that he had perhaps been “much too cavalier.”


3 posted on 03/05/2023 6:46:13 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

I can’t believe black people still fall for this as an “issue.”


4 posted on 03/05/2023 6:47:06 AM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: McGruff

they all pt voting RIGHTS, how bout voting RESPONSIBILITIES???

get and ID and vote on election day


5 posted on 03/05/2023 6:51:19 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: clintonh8r

Yet somehow they never bring forth a single black person who’s been unable to cast a vote. Show them to us! What are their names?


6 posted on 03/05/2023 6:52:47 AM PST by Orosius (A)
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To: McGruff

Scab picking…


7 posted on 03/05/2023 6:53:10 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: McGruff

Great. Now we get to hear the story about how he was jailed with MLK and Nelson Mandela right after church in the b-l*a*c*k community.

Love to hear the press spin if he were to crack that his favorite food is fried chicken, chitlins, and watermelon.


8 posted on 03/05/2023 6:53:57 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: McGruff

As Rush Limbaugh would say, “Selmuh!”


9 posted on 03/05/2023 6:54:23 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: McGruff
These Liberal idiots are constantly demanding rights they ALREADY have and HAVE HAD, for decades!!
10 posted on 03/05/2023 6:55:37 AM PST by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: McGruff

Did the ap point out that biden is ignoring Palestine Ohio?


11 posted on 03/05/2023 6:56:23 AM PST by Bob434
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To: StAntKnee

He’s being smart. The ‘black Colonel that just got his Medal O Honor: The MSM just had to ‘suggest’ it was racism that took so long. I’m waiting for a photo-op in Port Chicago, Ca.


12 posted on 03/05/2023 6:56:44 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: StAntKnee

Then there’s the ‘I’m just a white boy’ comment.


13 posted on 03/05/2023 6:57:22 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: McGruff

Maybe he will talk about the chains of crushing inflation, debt and endless war spending.

Nah he will sell the myth on Black Folks are too stupid to vote on Tuesdays and that showing an ID is racist somehow.


14 posted on 03/05/2023 6:58:07 AM PST by Trueblackman (I would rather stick my head up my a** & walk down an Interstate off ramp than believe Biden.)
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To: McGruff

Time to dig out Rush’ speeches on Sellllmmmaaaa


15 posted on 03/05/2023 6:59:22 AM PST by Skywise
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To: McGruff

Everyone needs to send their favorite DNC “mainstream media” elite celebrity a 55 gallon drum of Carmex Lip Balm. Those chapped lips from kissing FJB’s ass 24 hours a day for 365 days a year must be killing those idiots.


16 posted on 03/05/2023 6:59:50 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: McGruff

Which way is Ohio from there….


17 posted on 03/05/2023 7:01:29 AM PST by silverleaf (It’s not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Scab picking. I like that. Why can’t GOP leaders blurt it out? Even JC Watt used the term poverty pimps. Any more?


18 posted on 03/05/2023 7:02:56 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: McGruff
It's all about the black vote right now...They'll be going after the female vote soon...and their "right" to kill babies in the womb.

And stop calling it abortion....call it what it is...murder.

19 posted on 03/05/2023 7:03:23 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: McGruff
The only "voting rights" at risk today are those of honest Americans.

Every change to voter registration, vote methods, and voting 'season', have been designed to make CHEATING easier.

This is necessary for those whose ideas can't stand the light of day.

20 posted on 03/05/2023 7:04:08 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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