Weekly Roundup: The Tennessee Two and a Half
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mountaintop Speech
This week marks the 55th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In a speech, he says that if I were not promised freedom of speech and freedom of religion and the freedom to assembly, I wouldn't expect them in the United States. That's basically what Justin Pearson says in this speech, a young representative from Memphis who was protesting for his rights. The Tennessee legislature gave everybody a lesson in what CRT is when they get out of line. When they break decorum, when they don't act in a civil way, you get rid of them. Now there's no longer any, any voice. And now after all this pressure, it's like, well
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