Democrats refuse to applaud Martin Luther King Jr. from the House Floor

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House Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to applaud Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday.

After several votes, the House Republicans failed in their attempt to elect a speaker. Texas Republican Chip Roy appointed Byron Donalds from Florida.

Roy began the nomination — which challenges Kevin McCarthy, the outgoing GOP minority leader, for the top position in the House — by highlighting Donalds’s race as Democrats nominate New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

“Now here we are, and for the first time in history there have been two black Americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the House,” Roy stated this before the fourth vote.

The proclamation was received with standing ovations and roaring applause as the lawmakers at each end of the chamber celebrated this historic racial milestone, 158 years after the fall of American slavery.

“However,” Roy continued, “we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin but rather the content of their character.”

Republicans stood once more to shout the mantra, which was first popularized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. two miles west at the Lincoln Memorial’s steps in 1963. Most Democrats across the aisle were captivated with a form identity politics that is obsessed by skin color and sat with their arms crossed.

This juxtaposition reveals everything about American race relations today.

Democrats couldn’t celebrate the famous line from the 20th-century civil rights icon because color blindness is no virtue in the church of wokeness, the new secular religion to take over the Democratic Party.

One example of how Democrats see skin color was when two left-leaning racists entered American homes in December. went on “Dr. Phil” It is racist to accuse white women intrinsically of racism.

Regina Jackson Turner and Saira Rao are well-known for their work. charging white women $2,500 each for a dinner at which guests are told how they’re white supremacists, went on the daytime program to promote their new documentary “Deconstructing Karen.”

When a white woman seated next to Dr. Phillip McGraw refused to capitulate to Rao and Jackson’s accusation of racism, instead insisting “I’m not racist,” Rao cut her off.

“Yes, you are,” Rao yelled over the white oppressor. “Yes, you absolutely are. If you don’t see race, then you don’t see racism, and then you uphold racism.”

In the pair’s documentary, Rao extrapolated the point further. Marni, a dinner guest, shared her vision of the world. She was completely unaffected by race.

“It doesn’t faze me at all,” Marni says. “When we all bleed, we bleed red.”

“I’m just going to drop the bomb here, that’s white supremacy,” Rao responded. “Colorblindness is white supremacy. Do not teach your kids to be colorblind.”

This is the dominant worldview of woke activists, which has crept into mainstream Democratic Party. Roy demonstrated Wednesday how deeply entrenched this view is among Democrats in lower chamber.

Tristan Justice is The Federalist’s western correspondent. He also wrote for The Washington Examiner as well as The Daily Signal. His work has been featured in Real Clear Politics as well as Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University, where he studied journalism and political science. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at [email protected].

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