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What The Fuss: Stevie Wonder Slams Senators Hesitant On Voting Rights

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What The Fuss: Stevie Wonder Slams Senators Hesitant On Voting Rights

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Beloved musical icon Stevie Surprise had some alternative phrases for these within the Senate who’re nonetheless unmoved about securing voting rights for all on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and shared them in a hanging video message.

As many – together with lawmakers- took to social media to share their ideas of inspiration and hope on the vacation celebrating the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday (January seventeenth), others together with the King household have been out protesting and calling on a few of those self same lawmakers within the federal authorities to safe voting rights on a nationwide degree. Stevie Surprise added his extremely important voice to theirs with a particular message that was delivered through YouTube within the later hours of the day. Seated at his piano along with his ever-present shades, Surprise started the temporary clip forcefully: “Any senator who can not help the safety of voting rights in the USA of America can not say that they help the Structure,” he stated. “Cease the hypocrisy.”

He then introduced himself near cursing these lawmakers out however cleaned it up in his personal approach so the which means wasn’t misplaced: “Minimize the bull-tish,” he stated.

Surprise closed out the clip with these phrases: “Should you care and help our rights, do the arduous work. You may’t please all people, however you possibly can defend all of us. And to maintain all of it the way in which actual: The filibuster shouldn’t be working for democracy. Why gained’t you?” Standing up for what’s proper is nothing new to the legendary musician. He famously lent his efforts, which included recording the timeless track “Pleased Birthday” within the early Nineteen Eighties in the direction of the push for a nationwide day to honor the Civil Rights chief who was assassinated in 1968. The present struggle to get the John Lewis Voting Rights Act has hit a serious roadblock within the Senate, with calls to interrupt the filibuster rule with the intention to get it handed. However there seems to be no help from Senate Republicans to take action, with Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona publicly stating their opposition to ending the filibuster for voting rights.

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