In 1999, Senator Jeff Sessions (currently recommended for Attorney General under Trump) called successfully for Alabama native Rosa Parks to be
given the Congressional gold medal, one of the highest awards a civilian can receive. In doing so, Sessions made a
passionate call for lawmakers to renew the principle of equality under
the law.
“As legislators, we should work to strengthen the
appreciation for this fundamental governing principle by recognizing
those who make extraordinary contributions towards ensuring that all
American citizens have the opportunity, regardless of their race, sex,
creed, or national origin, to enjoy in the freedoms that this country
has to offer,” Sessions said, before calling Parks a “living embodiment
of this principle.”
A year later, Sessions attached an amendment to an
appropriations bill that gave $1 million to Alabama for the Rosa Parks
Library, Museum and Learning Center at Troy State University Montgomery
Campus as a way of memorializing the Montgomery Bus Boycott, for which
Parks’ protest was the impetus.
In 2005, after Parks’ death, Sessions gave a
passionate tribute to her on the floor of the Senate, saying “history
will remember Rosa Parks for shaking America's conscience and changing
the course of our Nation for the better.”
In 2012, Sessions introduced a resolution to the
Senate floor, along with Michigan Democratic senators Carl Levin and
Debbie Stabenow, to observe the 100th anniversary of Parks’ birth. “Her courage ignited major changes in our nation and
lead a revolution in race relations. Mrs. Parks will always be
remembered as a courageous individual, who confronted injustice head-on
and, in so doing, changed our nation. Her legacy continues to endure,”
Sessions said.
When Senator Sessions was U.S. Federal Attorney,
he filed a number of desegregation lawsuits in Alabama and he also voted
in favor of the 30-year extension of the Civil Rights Act,and also
voted to confirm Attorney General Eric Holder.
And he is still accused of being a racist
A) because he's attached to the Trump administration
and
B) because he's from Alabama. Personally, Im getting rather sick of the liberal asshats of this country accusing everyone else of being bigots when the only real signs of racism come from the liberals.
After all, its liberals that tell all the so-called minorities they cant succeed unless a bunch of old white men in DC do it for them. And the minorities suck it up like candy every time.
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