If you suppress the vote, and if you only want to do a holiday, and not bringing H.R.40, the reparations bill, to the floor, when it has almost 200 co-sponsors, the first time in history, if you vote for a holiday, and don`t stop suppressing the vote, don`t bring H.R.40 to the floor, then you`re speaking with a forked tongue, to be very honest with you.
Mark Thompson critiques the hypocrisy of celebrating a holiday while suppressing voting rights and ignoring reparations.
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