Jerry 🦙💝🦙I’m not much one for sharing TikTok videos here, but this one seems like one that will be taught in history classes some day
Thestaroftheworlds@jerry lovely speech, delivered beautifully. May I be lazy and ask for a brief backstory to this please?
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@Chaft @jerry His speech outside the house provides more context.
They were expelled because they spoke out of turn on the floor, because they protested against gun violence.
He is mesmerizing to listen to, he speaks like a preacher. Like a certain Reverend Doctor who died in Tennessee.
> The national hubbub began on March 30, when Tennessee lawmakers Rep. Justin J. Jones, of Nashville, and Rep. Justin Pearson, of Memphis, disrupted statehouse proceedings with megaphones and led protests calling for stricter gun control in the wake of a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. The demonstration was a powerful break from political inertia around the long-debated issue, and made headlines. “We occupied the House floor today after repeatedly being silenced from talking about the crisis of mass shootings,” Jones wrote on Twitter, shortly after the demonstrations. “We could not go about business as usual as thousands were protesting outside demanding action.”
paprikapink@Chaft @jerry As I understand it: After *another* mass shooting, this time at a school in Tennessee, students organized a large protest at the state legislature. The #TennesseeThree, State Representatives Justin Pearson, Justin Johnson, and Gloria Johnson, supported the students and joined them in speaking out. Their Republican colleagues found some technicality that they said was against the legislature's rules and held a vote to expell them.
Patricia Lavatai@paprikapink @Chaft @jerry
What they don’t understand is that it was “invisible “ white women who joined forces with the black community during the Civil Rights movement. Lazy old white men who can’t cook their own dinner, clean their own homes, or pick their own cotton….nothing new.
What they don’t understand is that it was “invisible “ white women who joined forces with the black community during the Civil Rights movement. Lazy old white men who can’t cook their own dinner, clean their own homes, or pick their own cotton….nothing new.
Pari Moon-Forest@Chaft @jerry
There was a shooting in Nashville. 3 children and three adults killed.
Children and adults came to the capitol to protest and three representatives broke protocol to support the protestors, Justin Pearson (who is Black), Justin Jones (who is Filipino and Black) (who are 28 and 27 respectively) and and a 60 year old white woman, Gloria Johnson.
They should have been censured for the breach of protocol but since they are all Dems and two are Black in a very white House, the House members decided to EXPEL them. Votes were taken and Johnson (the white woman) was NOT expelled, the other two were. TN is a very backward racist state.
There was a shooting in Nashville. 3 children and three adults killed.
Children and adults came to the capitol to protest and three representatives broke protocol to support the protestors, Justin Pearson (who is Black), Justin Jones (who is Filipino and Black) (who are 28 and 27 respectively) and and a 60 year old white woman, Gloria Johnson.
They should have been censured for the breach of protocol but since they are all Dems and two are Black in a very white House, the House members decided to EXPEL them. Votes were taken and Johnson (the white woman) was NOT expelled, the other two were. TN is a very backward racist state.