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Guinier, who specializes in voting rights law and teaches at Harvard Law School (HLS), joined other prominent political and religious leaders from Massachusetts to commemorate King and to examine present challenges to equality. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., also addressed the crowd of nearly 2,000, offering strong remarks...
Senator Kerry, who spoke before Guinier, also praised the civil rights pioneer’s achievements, saying King “was not just an African-American leader; he was an American leader.”
But Kerry, who had commented little before that morning on his electoral loss to George W. Bush, also put forward some of his most vehement criticism of the president’s policies and of voter disenfranchisement in last November’s elections.
“Thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote,” he said after reminding the audience that he did not contest the election’s outcome. Many Democrats had urged Kerry to challenge his loss of Ohio, which ultimately cost him the presidential...
Kerry looked to King’s words to leave the crowd with a sense of encouragement.