The vote for returning Justin Pearson will happen soon. Both of the expelled members could be seated again by the end of the day. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/us/justin-pearson-tennessee-house-vote/index.html
Eastern Tennessee was pro-union during the Civil War (as was the Appalachian region in general). Appalachia overall had very little slavery because the white population there was so poor. So Appalachian regions of the South tended to be pro-union and were culturally distinct from other parts of the South. But unlike other pats of Appalachia, you didn't see the huge movement of labor unions in Eastern Tennessee since the coal industry there was comparatively smaller than other areas. Places like Kentucky, West Virginia and Western North Carolina were also initially heavily Republican but it switched to voting for Democrats because of the rise of labor movements around the coal industry. But Republicans in Eastern Tennessee were still racist and supported segregation. They voted with Southern Democrats on a lot of issues (including voting against all of the civil rights bills) and overall were just as terrible as Southern Democrats. They just organized as Republicans due to their opposition to the Civil War. You can actually see artifacts of this Appalachian effect across the entire range. Even places like Northern Mississippi and Western Virginia (along with West Virginia), you saw a lot of opposition to secession.
I have lived in TN my whole life and there is no one who is more embarrassed by how stupid these people are than me. What Pop said about Bill Lee and Marsha Blackburn is so true. I have a good friend from bridge who is gay and moved to east TN awhile back and I told him that Governor Lee is more concerned about him and his "gayness" than the kook who lives down the street from him that has an arsenal of guns. Talk about ****ed up - it really depresses the **** out of me.
https://news.yahoo.com/2nd-black-lawmaker-could-returned-050236703.html The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate...
Remember while Republicans sought to silence voices and expel elected officials in an undisguised display of racism, the two expelled members are back. They are bigger stars with louder voices than they had before, and the speaker of the house there has been called on to resign, and after the spotlight was turned on by the Memphis 3, the Republican governor is now addressing gun control. Republicans got nothing they sought, and lost ground along the way.
If the Speaker and Legislature had done what was appropriate for breaking decorum rules, censured the members and maybe remove them from committee assignments, this would’ve blown over and been forgotten by now. That they instead went overboard with removal has created the firestorm and made Justin Jone and Justin Pierson far more famous than they ever likely would be.
Proud of him. It's stuff like this that immediately makes mayors and police chiefs pucker up like in Memphis when those cops beat the **** out a detained individual and be like "**** we gotta do something now and charge all of them immediately" That's right, the fear of riots is what got those cops arrested immediately. You are just if you think otherwise and I'm glad.
I'll wait and see a little more proof based on your history of posting things that often turn out to not be true. There is no video in the tweet. There is an image of a person with a traffic cone and a truck. Next to a picture of Justin Jones.
There really isn't much to it. Just protesters blocking an intersection and drivers wanting to prove a point by just driving through them making the assumption that people will have self-, preservation instincts and someone throwing a smashed cone at their car. Like I don't care. People who think this is what is wrong with society rather than police units that are charged to serve civilian communities being labeled agro names like "scorpion unit" are just straight up fascist. A lot of Americans are very uncomfortable with the true notion that some of the recent immediate arrests of officers in major cities is a direct result of mayors, district attorneys and police chiefs not wanting there to be another massive riot. And that's good. The people who yell at people like these protestors don't want to end qualified immunity. They don't want to end the stranglehold police unions have on basic accountability. If you don't give citizens options to reform these institutions this is the next step. Riots. If the founding fathers weren't racist, they would be proud of these civil activists. They were proud of riots from merely believing they weren't taxed fairly.
We Texans know how you feel. I think this is a good reminder that the liberal effort to get gun control to address the runaway mass murder problem is not linked to the identity of the people pulling the triggers. Whether its a political enemy or a perceived political ally, its still a murderer who needs to be disarmed -- it can be a militiaman or a jihadi or a black nationalist or a police officer or an angry trans person, and the answer stays the same.
Be honest, you would not be proud of him if hit you in the face with a traffic cone while you were driving to work.
I probably wouldn't be driving in that area. The nature of hypocrisy doesn't erase the fact that mayors, DAs and police chiefs in major US cities are making decisions about holding law enforcement accountable from the fear of another summer of rioting and when you remove the citizens' path to express and reform grievances through things like qualified immunity and police unions, citizens will find another way. How would you feel if it was you being tarred and feathered in 1770s America for your beliefs?
