In a powerful moment of history, African American Senator Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech on the Senate floor—a record originally set in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
Booker’s protest targeted Donald Trump. April 1 may go down as a turning point—the beginning of the end for Trump. The tides are shifting.
New Jersey’s first Black senator had shattered the record for the longest speech in Senate history, delivered by South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond, an arch segregationist who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker vowed: “I rise tonight with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.
“I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis … These are not normal times in America and they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them.”
Here he is bringing it home!
Didn’t he need a wee?
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