Racism? Republicans expel Black lawmakers for protesting against gun violence in US
Republicans had accused three Democratic representatives - Mr Justin Jones, Mr Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson - of bringing "disorder and dishonour to the House" when they joined protestors at the statehouse on March 30, 2023, leading chants from the lectern on the House floor calling for stricter gun laws.
Republican colleagues voted out Mr Jones as well as Memphis Representative Justin Pearson last week.
Racism?
The rare expulsion vote came just days after a school shooting in Nashville. Six people, including three young children, were killed in the shooting.
The vote drew further controversy, as Republicans, who hold a supermajority in the state, ultimately voted to expel Mr Jones and Mr Pearson, who are black, and not Ms Johnson, a white woman.
According to the BBC, Mr Jones said after the vote the Republican-controlled House of Representatives had silenced him and those who voted for him.
"We were calling for action so we can stop our young people and stop our children from being murdered and massacred," he said.
Together, Mr Jones and Mr Pearson represent about 140,000 constituents in Tennessee.
Several of their constituents expressed anger and, according to the BBC, they felt disenfranchised by the vote to oust the two Democrats.
The Tennessee House of Representatives has only voted twice since the Civil War to expel a member - one time for a sitting lawmaker who was convicted of soliciting a bribe, and another for a majority whip who was accused of sexual misconduct.
And, according to the BBC, Tennessee officials are expected to vote today on whether to reinstate Mr Jones.
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23 Responses to “Racism? Republicans expel Black lawmakers for protesting against gun violence in US”
this is what ranking wants to do in the BVI?
Bullsh**!!!! She was not expelled because she white. Wheel and come again. You can surely do better than that., Whites attitude is is that Blacks are inferior beasts and have no right s that they shoukd recognized and respect..
But she did.
We all know that whites in Tennesse, has mostly been rasict in the past and still is.
Obviously they are racist. But the media pressure was so unbearable, they put one of them back to make it seem like it was not a racist vote. My guess is, after the pressure bears down even harder, they will reinstate the other one and will never try such nonsense again.
Neighborhoods, they will fill the streets with illegals(people from Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc, are Trumps preferred immigrants) , they will take your jobs, they are getting uppity wanting to be president any other things, they will take your women, they will take our country, wanting to replace ( The Great Misplace Replacement Theory, etc, you . So what happened In Tennessee is no surprise, reeking with hypocrisy and bold face racism, 2 Blacks and 1 white protesting on the House floor but the 2 Blacjs were expell d and the white speared.
Moreover, racism has always been about control, ie, slavery, Jim Crow and now mass incarceration. Racism and colonialism are one and the same. The US had/has Jim Crow; UK, John Bull. Racism and colonialism are group based power and economic control where one group exerts much control over wealth, resources, power over a subordinate, weaker group, rendering it to permanent bottom dragging state.
WHO KNOWS WHAT ( MARTIN LUTHER ) FOUGHT AGAINST AND WAS KILLED FOR , QE ARE HERE AND N O W