Sen. John McCain said he would court the black vote and campaign in places Republicans often shun. On Friday, he spoke in Memphis to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The video shows McCain apologizing for opposing a holiday for King with boos and interruptions from the audience. It doesn’t help that he has a black man holding an umbrella for him.
“I was wrong and eventually realized that, in time to give full support for a state holiday in Arizona,” he said. “We can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing, and Dr. King understood this about his fellow Americans.”
According to a press release from the DNC, in 1983, McCain voted against passing a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of King. In 1987, Arizona Gov. Even Mecham rescinded “what he termed an illegal executive order by his predecessor, Democrat Bruce Babbitt, to establish a state holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” When asked about Mecham’s decision to rescind the holiday, “McCain said that he felt Mecham was correct in rescinding the holiday.” In 1994, McCain voted to prohibit federal funds for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, which was established in 1984 “to encourage the observance of King’s birthday.”
McCain said he reversed his decision around 1990 after he learned more about King’s achievements. His home state of Arizona was the second to the last state to recognize the holiday. Shout out to CL Readers Kimberly and Diabolical for the info.
NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT
OKAY SINCE YA’LLSA CENSORING SHIT! ISSA JUS SAY SCREW MASSA MCCAIN! HMMM
McCain didn’t make that speech to gain black supporters. Everyone and their damn mama knows that McCain won’t get the black vote. The fact is that he didn’t have to go there, but he did because he wanted to honor MLK and make ammends for his previous position.
Some of you people need to lay off.
DONT MACAIN OLD ASS GOT A NEVRE…..TRYNA GET THE BALCK VOTE U GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
HE WOULD HAVE NEVER CAME UP 2 DC/MARYLAND AND GOT AWAY WIT SAYING SOMETHING LIKE DAT WIT OUT SOME THING BREAKIN OUTWIT PPL TRYNA BEAT HIS ASS!!!!
WHERE THE FUCK IS ALL DA BLACK LEADERS IN THE WORLD …Y DID HE HAVE TO GET HIS WHITE ASS UP THERE ON THE WAGON BETTER YET …WHO LET HIM UP THERE
HE GETS NO BLACK VOTE FOR SAYING SOMETHING LIKE that
IM SRRY YALL IM JUS ANGRY , THAT HE SAID THAT OUT LOUD ….SRR YALL
Well I for one seriously considered McCain, but now that I know he didn’t support the King Holiday, he’s not getting my vote.
I’m back to voting for Hillary!
I’m notparticulari;y fond of ANY of the candidates for President this year. I wish either Edwards had stayed in the race or Gore had run again.
Lol i’m NOT surprised….white ppl….esp white males….it NEVA fails!
OBAMA 08!!!
please yall…dont judge him… he’ll get his one day RIGHT GOD? only god can judge… lets just sit back and watch McCain dig a deep deep deep deep hole.
***OBAMA 08***
The only reason that McCain would feign apology is because America is preparing to go into a different phase of globalization and they want every American citizen to be on the same page. He must extend the olive branch, it has nothing to do with what he wants to do. If that were the case, he would’ve spoken to black audiences prior to winning the republican nomination. He couldn’t do that because he would’ve alienated his main white constituency. Now that he has everything wrapped up, he can go into his pandering mode with the simple blacks. The average negro in America has become obtuse anyway, so before he even attempts an apology he will be forgiven. People rarely change their outlook, and if they do, they don’t change it from 60 years old to 70 years old. When you deal with these politicians and take what they say seriously, you set yourself up for disappointment. They vote according to what they believe wil set themselves up for future advancement. If that vote ends up biting them in the backside, they conjure up some strange reason why they voted how they voted.
Just ridiculous. I hope the black republican … PLUS the guy holding his umbrella … pay attention to things like this. This was in the 90′s, how is McCain so late in getting up to speed? He’s too old for this mess anyways.
Why people keep saying he only showed up in Memphis, TN just to receive the “Black vote” ? He is not out to win votes being that he has already locked down the Republican nomination. With that being said, he is NOW finally trying to reach out to the black community to show that he really does have an interest in the issues we’re facing etc… HA HA HA PLEASE!!!
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