Mastodawn

This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.
#USpol

“The Sergeant at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

A white officer with a badge, blocking a black congressional member, from joining meeting that specifically targets the black district meant to give representation to people of color.

The segregation is alive and well in the south.” - Brian Garlick

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@BrianJopek
The Confederacy lives because the US *chose* to look the other way after Reconstruction and decades of racist Jim Crow Apartheid policies in the South. Now thanks to Merrick Garland's slow-walking (and a corrupt SCOTUS), we're now living with a more sophisticated "James Crow, Esq." agenda.