Black history meets today’s anti-Black movement
Lindenhurst, L.I.: So it’s fine for Republicans to ram a Supreme Court justice into position, appointed by a Republican president, within a month of the presidential election, but changing the filibuster so that a law to ensure fair and equal voting rights could be passed is against “American principles,” according to Republicans led by Sen. Mitch McConnell. The 50 Republican senators who stick together like glue on this decision by state represent about 41 million fewer Americans than the rest, yet they feel entitled to enforce their partisan views on everyone. Republicans who become president (especially Trump) often talked of their mandate to keep their “promises” because they are acting on the will of the American people who voted for them. Yet the current president, Joe Biden, duly and freely elected with a margin of more than seven million votes, isn’t able to make reforms due to this gross misappropriation of Senate power.
To any rational American, it’s obvious that no progressive reforms to move our country forward in the 21st century will get accomplished by a Democratic president unless this imbalance of Senate power is fixed. Changing the filibuster is just a start, but it’s of vital importance now in our country’s history. We need every fair and rational American to encourage their senators, Democrat and Republican, to do the right thing. Dr. Martin Luther King Day, when we honored a man who believed in peaceful change to make life better for all Americans, would have been the perfect opportunity for our country’s Senate leaders to have an epiphany and make some important changes.