Posted on Apr 10, 2023
'Our vote doesn’t matter': Black Tennessee residents frustrated over expulsion of legislators
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Outside a Kroger grocery store in the suburban Antioch neighborhood, where ousted Justin Jones held rallies during his 2022 campaign, Black residents expressed outrage at the state Republicans who expelled their state representative for protesting gun violence last week.
“He’s Black, he has our interests at heart, and he gets removed for protesting. That is racial,” Angelo Tate, 31, who identifies as a Democrat, said Friday. “It makes us feel like our choice and our voice is not valued and we seem to be moving backwards politically.”
Rachel Tate, 30, who also identifies as a Democrat, said, “It’s messed up. All he wanted to do was represent us and he got penalized for it.
“White men don’t care what we think,” Tate said. “They took our representative away from us.
“It’s like our vote doesn’t matter.”
“He’s Black, he has our interests at heart, and he gets removed for protesting. That is racial,” Angelo Tate, 31, who identifies as a Democrat, said Friday. “It makes us feel like our choice and our voice is not valued and we seem to be moving backwards politically.”
Rachel Tate, 30, who also identifies as a Democrat, said, “It’s messed up. All he wanted to do was represent us and he got penalized for it.
“White men don’t care what we think,” Tate said. “They took our representative away from us.
“It’s like our vote doesn’t matter.”
'Our vote doesn’t matter': Black Tennessee residents frustrated over expulsion of legislators
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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So three people let protestors into the chamber. Then used bull horns to disrupt the chamber. The protesters let in hold up 7 fingers indicating that the women who killed 6 people, 3 of them children , is a victim. One of the protesters went and insulted a man from India twice using racial slurs! These are the people who are victims?
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Once again, the victim card gets played. The race card is the most over played nonsense ever. These 2 "Representatives" incited a riot. Could have become violent and gone to insurrection status. They were both too stupid to realize what was happening just to get their 15 minutes of fame. State Houses have the same decorum rules in every state. You bring a mob to try and make a point, you will be expelled. Pretty simple rule.
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PO3 Shayne Seibert
If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. You can't create situational racism just to fit your victimhood. THAT's racist.
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MSG Thomas Currie
Racism was certainly part of it. Democrat Justin Jones was expelled for his racist attack on Dr Sabi Kumar in addition to Jones' and Pearson's role in leading a violent insurrection.
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PO3 Shayne Seibert
MSG Thomas Currie - The racism was all self inflicted and trying to use it to get their way. Just as the BLM riots used racism to get away with Billions in damages and not be prosecuted for it. The left is really good at looking away when a "protected" class does violent stuff. Look at the trans people shooting things up. NOBODY wants to indict a trans person, and they want to let all the inmates out of prisons. Protected classes literally get away with murder, unless they off themselves in the process. They they are martyrs to the cause.
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