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Sharpton Announces Voting Rights March At King Day Breakfast

Written by NewsOne Staff on January 16, 2012 11:49 am

Al Sharpton, Martin l. king jr.Monday, January 16, 2012– This morning at National Action Network’s (NAN) annual King Day Breakfast in Washington, D.C., NAN Founder and President Rev. Al Sharpton made key announcements in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr.

First, Rev. Sharpton announced that during the remembrance of Bloody Sunday beginning March 4th he will lead a 5-day March commemorating the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. The march will begin at the Edmund Pettus Bridge ending with a rally at the Alabama State Capitol on Friday, March 9. The March is in support of Voting Rights and to highlight the continuing efforts against Voter Suppression.

This includes the efforts to defeat Voter Identification Laws and reverse anti-Immigration laws in the state of Alabama. Secondly, Rev. Sharpton announced that National Action Network will lead a rally on March 27th in Washington, DC, at the United States Supreme Court as arguments are heard on Obama Care.

According to Rev. Sharpton:

It is important that we not just remember what Dr. King and others did in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act that came as a result of the Selma to Montgomery march. We must preserve it against Voter ID Laws and the early voting and voter suppression attempts that are taking place today. To celebrate Dr. King and allow them to undermine him is hypocritical. Therefore on March 4th we will gather in Selma, Alabama, and march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and march again to Montgomery, Alabama against Voter ID and voter suppression laws culminating with a huge rally that Friday.

The effort to make the Health Care Act unconstitutional is not just a challenge to Health Care but a challenge to federal government superseding state government and protecting its citizens. We will be in mass marching and rallying on the day this is argues at the SC to demand in the name of Dr. King that we stop those that engage in interposing federal law with state law and nullifying federal rights to protect its citizens.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/itilcobit/ itilcobit

    What has marching done?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Aceman52/ Aceman52

    Al give it up. You will NEVER have the impact of MLK. Your efforts against what you deem to be racism have turned you into a joke. Voter suppression? You mean having to show ID in order to vote?? give me a break.

  • Anonymous

    They need money. The marches raise funds. But what they dont realize is that the people have od on marching. By having on average two marches a year, the purpose of the march is lost. I think the only way to change things is through economics. It cost money to march. When you consider how much is spent on transportation, lodging, food and entertainment, that money could go to help black business create jobs. That is money that could be used for education. Business people of other races are the ones that benefit the most from these marches. Sharpton is hoping for donations.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Isn’t it ashame this negroid is still running around here blowing horns and ain’t nothing changed?

    THAT BOY BETTER NOT BE LATE FOR HIS JOB WITH MASSA’!!!

    How in the hell can 1960 tactics work in the year 2012?

    IT’S TIME TO DEMAND YOUR SHYT OR GET THE FUK OUT THE WAY!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Just ran over negroes shoes!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sunshine80ca/ sunshine80ca

    Mr. Sharpton, please forgive these negative, “no s**t doing” clowns!!!

    YOUR POINTS ARE WELL TAKEN, ONE OF WHICH IS…….’Racist Republican elements are trying to suppress the black & Latino vote, just as in MLK’s era, and it will not be tolerated”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    What about the 5000 or more voters in Fla. in 2000 who had their i.d.’s but were turned away?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JI3QN2SAWGME3CUQSVQ43FXZIU Eric

    THEM SOME PESSIMISTIC HATRZ-aint they? Doom and gloom ass b***h niggaz.

  • http://twitter.com/eyetotheworld1 eyetotheworld

    Only convicted felons cannot vote. The rest of us can, with proper I.D. This is bunk.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sweet_saraNY/ sweet_saraNY

    It is “interesting” that Republicans has not required “proper I.D. for voting at THEIR caucuses!!!
    REPUB RATS only want extra standards imposed on blacks because the probability statistics will help them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sweet_saraNY/ sweet_saraNY

    THAT ACEMAN B***H IS NOT A BLACK PERSON!!! HE IS WHITE, REPUBLICAN, AND USES A FAKE BLACK MAN PICTURE

  • Anonymous

    I am still not getting this, someone please explain? What is wrong with having an ID to vote. How will they know if you are who you say you are? How will they know you are even registered to vote if you can walk up and give anyones name? What if someone used your name to vote, would you be cool with that? Lastly, who the heck doesn’t have an ID in 2012? Get it together people. Stop acting a dang fool, that’s why they look at us crazy now, there is no reason anyone should be walking around with out an ID. My mother always taught me to never leave home without in ID, where are we going wrong?

  • Anonymous

    March like sheep,the sheep will vote for which wolf will have them for dinner.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MQ5NBJIRRPO5P2F77R6X6QKDGI Symone

    Exactly!

    It’s as if Sharpton and others that think on his level are saying “Blacks are too ignorant to know to bring id’s” to vote or The Dems are afraid that many Blacks won’t make the effort to get an id and they want to make it easy as possible for them to vote because they know SHEEPLE type Blacks will vote Dem no matter what”. I’m like what is the big deal but they even try to make that out to be discrimination.

  • Anonymous

    They are not telling you that you can’t vote, they’re saying present an ID. It’s January the elections are in November, you have 9 months…..Lets GO!

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