Republican Congressman Steve Scalise Once Voted Against Bill That Would Apologize For Slavery via Huffington Post House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) voted against a bill that would have apologized for slavery to African-Americans when he was in the Louisiana Legislature, according to a 1996 New Orleans Times-Picayune article first reported on by The Hill. The representative, who has been a target of civil rights groups after it was revealed last month that he spoke at a 2002 white supremacist conference, was one of two House and Governmental Affairs Committee members who voted down the bill. “Why are you asking me to apologize for something I didn’t do and had no part of?” Scalise asked, according to the paper at the time. “I am not going to apologize for what somebody else did.” The bill passed out of committee on a unanimous vote once it was amended to express “regret” instead. Scalise’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment about the vote. The 1996 measure was noted on Twitter by Lamar White Jr., the blogger who broke the news that Scalise spoke before the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in 2002. Scalise has apologized and said he didn’t realize what kind of group he was speaking to at the time. Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, a national racial justice organization, planned a protest for Tuesday outside a Scalise fundraiser on Capitol Hill. And civil rights groups have asked Scalise to meet with them to explain his EURO appearance, though as of Monday, they had not heard back from him. WENN
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The Rev. Al Sharpton and hundreds of protesters flooded Union Square in support of slain teen Treyvon Martin. By Miranda Johnson, with additional reporting by Kimberly Reynolds Demonstrators chant at the Million Hoodies March in honor of Treyvon Martin Photo: John Moore/ Getty Images NEW YORK — Hundreds of people took to New York City streets calling for justice for slain Florida teen Treyvon Martin on Wednesday evening (March 21). Protestors flooded Union Square in what was dubbed the Million Hoodie March, in support of the 17-year-old who was shot on February 26 by 28-year-old neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in a gated Sanford, Florida, community. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin’s parents led the demonstrators who demanded that Zimmerman be arrested. The protest occurred the same day that the Sanford city manager announced that police could not arrest Zimmerman because he was protected by the so-called “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows Floridians to shoot anyone they believe is threatening them. Martin, who was walking from the store to his dad’s home in the gated community, was wearing a hoodie when Zimmerman spotted him and called 911. Police dispatchers instructed Zimmerman not to pursue the teen, but by the time police arrived on the scene, Trayvon was dead. “By not pressing charges against Zimmerman, they will be continuing a long and horrific history of Jim Crow justice in the deep south,” demonstrator Ben Backer told MTV News. “If we are not in the era of Jim Crow justice, George Zimmerman should be arrested and should be prosecuted for murder.” “America really needs to open their eyes to the fact that there is still racism in America,” protestor Nicole Sams said. “That racism killed a 17-year-old kid.” Union Square protestors wore hoodies as a sign of solidarity and took turns calling out, “Am I suspicious?” and then chanting, “We want arrests.” Several held signs that read, “I am not a hoodlum, I just wear hoods.” “We’re not going to stop until we get justice,” Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, said to the crowd. His mother, Sabrina Fulton, thanked the supporters while acknowledging her own grief saying. “My heart is in pain, but to see the support of all of you really makes a difference,” she said.
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