Some of the most powerful footage in Fahrenheit 9/11 comes from the Joint Session of Congress that convened on January 6, 2001. It was during this session that then Vice-President Al Gore presided over the verification of the Electoral College vote in the face of fierce Congressional protests. U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch was the first to attempt to halt the proceedings and was followed shortly thereafter by U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings and Corrine Brown.
As African Americans said then, and now, it's the courts stupid! Justice is a long way off when all the votes aren't counted. Some of the most powerful footage in Fahrenheit 9/11 comes from the Joint Session of Congress that convened on January 6, 2001. It was during this session that then Vice-President Al Gore presided over the verification of the Electoral College vote in the face of fierce Congressional protests. U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch was the first to attempt to halt the proceedings and was followed shortly thereafter by U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings and Corrine Brown.
Because no Senator would sign their inquiries into the Florida recount, the electoral vote was verified and the way was cleared for George W. Bush to be sworn in as the nation's 43rd president. Had U.S. Representatives Deutsch, Hastings and Brown been successful with their protests on January 6th, 2001, further investigations would have been conducted into the voting irregularities in Florida.
Approximately 250,000 registered voters in Alabama don’t have a driver’s license or acceptable form of voter ID. In the last election, a 93-year-old World War II veteran was turned away from the polls because of the new law. Only 41 percent of Alabamans voted in the 2014 election, the lowest turnout in the state in 28 years.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.~Edmund Burke
Don Lemon isn't the first CNN Talking TeeVee Pundit Head to promote the Fox News false, black-on-black crime, narrative, to deflect from the real issues surrounding the injustices in the Trayvon Martin case.
The black-on-black crime argument says that blacks
in America have no right to complain about white-on-black crime till
they do something about black-on-black crime. It is a racist deflection. Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Chris Wallace
and others on the right used the argument in the days after the George
Zimmerman verdict. Whitewashed people bring it up whenever crime and
race are at issue.
It allows the white press to determine reality,
which makes it seem like Zimmerman is an exception while no one is doing
anything about black-on-black crime. As it turns out, on average there
is a Zimmerman-style shooting (armed security person or vigilante
killing an unarmed black person) once every 28 hours. Trayvon Martin is
just what made the papers. His case is hardly the worst nor the only one
to get protests. Likewise, there is plenty being done about
black-on-black crime, like by the Nation of Islam, but the white press
is not particularly interested in reporting that either. Even worse, the
white press turns a blind eye to the bad policing that leads to a high
black crime rate. Yet, somehow, it always seems to find time to show
black male suspects on the 11 o’clock news.
Until Don Lemon, Bill O'Reilly and other are willing to address the root
causes of violence, they need to shut the hell up. Don Lemon, why
didn't you rant on and on about poverty, unemployment, gun control,
inferior schools and mass incarceration?
Why? Because that would be too much like right (no pun intended).
