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Commentary: How Much Longer?
In honor of Black History Month and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

How much longer will hate rhetoric, racism-tinged speech, and Anti-Semitic sentiment NOT be considered "OK" or tolerated in conversation - especially by political leaders?

How much longer will voter ID laws and other restrictions discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities? 2016 was the first election in 50 years without full protections of the Voting Rights Act (Supreme Court gutted the act in 2013) - 20 states have had restrictive voting laws that suppressed voters of color in exercising their rights.

How much longer will it take for the many immigrant children to be united with their parents again? If ever? It is 10 months since immigrant children at the southern border were ripped from their parents' arms and put in cages, then shipped to tent cities all over the country while some of their parents have been deported.

"How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965)


(This piece was inspired by a concept created by the Southern Poverty Law Center.)

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