McCain didn't know MLK at 47 yrs of age

John McCain didn't know Martin Luther King at the age of 47 when he voted against MLK day in 1983.

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[ThatwasTERRIBLE]

No excuse idiot. MLK had been doing work long before 67. The race issue was HUGE at the time so there is no fucking excuse to not know MLK's significance unless you're a retard. McCain also had time to learn about MLK after he came home yet still voted against it being a holiday. If McCain's reasons were that he didn't know the significance and he voted against the holiday's funding in 1994, that means McCain was ignorant on MLK until after 94. Sickening and no fucking excuse.

[EineNeueSchuhe]

the heck??? "not being involved in the issue" is the lamest excuse i ever heard, as if he hadnt turned on a television set all that time, that would be like someone today (at age 47) 20 yrs from now saying they didnt know obama was the first black president because they were "not involved in the issue". be glad this guy didnt win! =)

[culinarynerd]

@EgyptianPrinceCB May 19th is *not* Malcom X day - proof that America prefers her POC activists nonviolent.

[culinarynerd]

Race "had not been an issue in Congress" ... so the Naturalization Act of 1790, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Thirteenth Amendment, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Title IX, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, AMONG MANY OTHERS, what... just slipped his mind? Or he genuinely didn't know about them? Or... what?

[culinarynerd]

And yet, at the time he made these statements, the "greatest equal opportunity employer in America" would kick you out if they suspected you were attracted to your own sex...

[SpraxIAKS]

Serial Liar. Like the majority of politicians..you people need to stop voting these lames in.

[Parabol0086]

Of course the army is the "greatest equal opportunity employer", they don't care the colour of the skin of the men and women they send to die.

[michaelemorrison]

@fywacia you couldn't have said it better

[eliteaone]

that was a horrible answer!!!!!!! and he is full of it. at that time race issues was at it's highest level in this country.

[VicVinegar]

@EineNeueSchuhe We have a black President???

(Shocked Face)

[fywacia]

This guy is too much, the military as an equal opportunity employer? Only recently is that starting to be the case after the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. What Mccain needed to say is like most people in my generation I was raised to be a racist. And in later years I realized that everyone is a human being and everyone is equal. A simple honest answer is all we ask and Mccain can't provide it, and most likely because he's still a racist and clearly a homophobe. He's too old to be in office.