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
@jerry lovely speech, delivered beautifully. May I be lazy and ask for a brief backstory to this please?
@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.
@Chaft @jerry This speech took place during the debate before the vote. The Republicans voted to expell both Justins, but Gloria was spared by one vote. As she pointed out after, she is a 62yo white woman, and they are young black men.
@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.