Martin Luther King Jr.'s family says 'we're tired of being patient,' urges Democrats to pass voting

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The family of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday threw its weight behind Democrats' efforts to pass voting rights legislation, giving impassioned speeches and interviews and leading a march in Washington, DC, that drew hundreds of attendees.

Marchers braved frigid temperatures in the nation's capital to participate in the DC Peace Walk across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. King's descendants, including his son, Martin Luther King III, 13-year-old granddaughter Yolanda Renee King, and daughter-in-law Arndrea Waters King, led the procession while holding a banner that called on Congress to "Deliver for Voting Rights."

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"My mother always said the holiday should be a day on, not a day off," Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the late civil rights leader, said in a speech held at Washington's Union Station. "Today we're not here to celebrate. We're here to be on."

Democrats have used Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday celebrating the civil rights leader, as an opportunity to push for voting rights bills, and King's family has been front and center. Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris gave speeches Monday imploring their passage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/martin-luther-king-jrs-family-says-were-tired-of-being-patient-urges-democrats-to-pass-voting-rights-legislation/ar-AASSv6d

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1. The Dem Sens Manchin & Sinema

Rt TY

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2. Maybe try urging Republicans.

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5. +1

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3. Urge democrats, why not urge the

party that keeps putting the stick in the spokes ? Somehow it's always the democrats fault.

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4. Sinema is probably not paying attention to any of this unfortunately

It really sucks that two of President Biden's most helpful pieces of legislation is being blocked by two self centered Senators from the President's own party. Their stubbornness will destroy us

Ostriches will ostrich

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6. It would seem that Manchin and Sinema

Have elected to be this Congress’ Republican enablers.

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7. Did they have anything to say to ReTHUGs

Asking for a friend