“The most trusted name in news” once again proved itself to be a Democratic Party policy think tank on Monday as they exploited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day to suggest their party push so-called “voting rights” legislation every six months to 30 days. Also known as CNN, the network claimed Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) were the kind of “white moderate” that help the KKK, as King warned in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
A weekday afternoon was the spark that sparked the partisan appeal for regular votes and pushed for federal control of elections CNN Newsroom co-host Victor Blackwell when speaking to radical leftist and political commentator Bakari Sellers about the day’s events:
Bakari, I’d like to ask from a political standpoint, what should the White House do? Should this be done every six-months?. This is not to suggest that I am dismissive. This was done in July. After hearing from the President and the National Constitution Center, we then voted that did not lead to any results. We then see the January big speech, and the voting tomorrow.
Sellers responded with some faux disagreement by first saying, “we need to do it every six months” then revised it to “It should be done every 30 days.”
After reciting arguably King’s most famous quote about how a person should be judged “by the content of their character, not the color of their skin,” Sellers pivoted to smearing Manchin and Sinema as essentially helping the Klan:
You have to remember his April 16th 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail in which he discussed the current situation.
That letter was his way of stating that the white moderate stands in the country’s path to progress. It’s not the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klaner, it was the white moderate who want to preserve of order over justice. And that’s what you have in Sinema and Manchin at this point in time.
He also shared some ironic displeasure with how the issue had become a “political football,” blaming Chief Justice John Roberts. “However, this issue should not be a black-and-white, Democrat, Republican, Northern or Southerner matter. It shouldn’t require us to rehash the same issues every time. It should be an issue that we can all agree upon,” he bemoaned.
A couple of minutes later, Blackwell pointed out that Democrats won’t push a vote every 30 days but the question remained: “What does the party now do this with energy? … What does the White House do with all of this energy?”
According to Sellers, the Department of Justice needs to “do things that they are already doing, plus do it more” in terms of attacking states passing election integrity laws and rolling back pandemic voting measures.
The next step was to make sure that people are registered to vote. “We need to make sure that we’re registering hundreds of thousands if not millions of voters … I want to register them in Little Rock, Arkansas, Jackson, Mississippi, Columbia, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina. And we’re going to flip the head of these southern states passing these regressive bills on their head,” he said.
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Below is the transcript. Click “expand to read:
CNN Newsroom
January 17, 2022
Eastern: 2:06 p.m.(…)
VICTOR BLACKWELL (Bakar): From a political point of view, would the White House and party conduct this once every six month? That’s not to say that I am dismissive. This was done in July. After hearing from the President and the National Constitution Center, we then voted that did not lead to any results. We then see the January big speech, and the voting tomorrow.
Do you think it is more beneficial to the party to keep trying to get this done or to have a failed attempt every six months?
BAKARI SELLERS – Victor, I think it’s not necessary to repeat the process every six months. To be honest with you, It should be done every thirty days, I believe.
It’s true, Dr. King is a popular figure. He said that you should judge people by their content, not their skin colour, and then he passed away peacefully.
You have to remember his April 16th 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail in which he discussed the current situation.
That letter was his way of stating that the white moderate stands in the path to progress in America. It’s not the White Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klaner, it was the white moderate who want to preserve of order over justice. And that’s what you have in Sinema and Manchin at this point in time.
We must act with a furious urgency. And it’s unfortunate that this is becoming such a partisan issue and it was done by none other than the chief justice of the United States of America, John Roberts who made this into a political football.
However, this issue should be a common one for all races, whether they are black, white, Democrat or Republican. It shouldn’t require us to rehash the same issues every time. This is a topic we should all agree to.
BLACKWELL. Yeah. The former Secretary Clinton sent this tweet, which included a Dr. King quote about the white moderate being a dam of Progress.
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Eastern at 2:09 p.m.
BLACKWELL: Bakari, what does – You say this should happen every 30 days, What does the party now do this with energy? Because it’s not going to happen every 30 days we know. How does the White House use all this energy? We witness the marchers in action and hear LaTosha’s passion. [Brown].
SELLERS: I mean, look, let’s be completely honest because we’ve had a lot of people in our party who want to preserve the status quo, who say, “why are you giving the president and vice president and the administration and the leadership so much hell?” And the reason being is because this issue matters that much.
And then they ask, “okay, he finally used his bully pulpit,” he being the President of the United States, “what more do you want him to do?” I would say I want to challenge the Department of Justice to do things that they are already doing, plus do it more. This means that you have to go and challenge the laws in these states.
Let’s utilize some executive action, let’s see what President can do along the lines of voting rights while we’re fighting this battle in Congress. And last but not least, my father told me this the other day, he said, “while we have all of this energy, we need to organize and we need to register voters.”
It is important to ensure that they are not only registering voters in New York, Massachusetts and Colorado, but also that the registrations of these people include hundreds of thousands, if not even millions. I would like to register them in Little Rock Arkansas, Jackson Mississippi, Columbia South Carolina and Charlotte North Carolina. And we’re going to flip the head of these southern states passing these regressive bills on their head.
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