As Abbott celebrates MLK day, voter suppression agenda kicks into full gear
On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by sharing a famous quote from the late civil rights leader and minister: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
The quote, now engraved in Washington D.C.’s MLK Memorial, comes from a sermon King delivered in 1959. By then, King was more than familiar with challenging times and the risks of advocating for civil rights in Jim Crow America.
Three years earlier his home in Montgomery, Alabama had been bombed with dynamite while his wife and newborn daughter were still inside. His family miraculously uninjured, King returned home to an upset crowd of supporters who he told to go home and not worry because, “we are not hurt and remember that if anything happens to me, there will be others to take my place.”
If Abbott genuinely wanted to honor King’s legacy, he would gather the legislature and scrap Senate Bill 1, a sweeping Trump-brained law that makes it more difficult to access the ballot box.
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