Vrede too wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:15 ambilly.pilgrim wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:39 amA very few years back Shelby County held a big kkk rally
I think I know why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County,_Tennessee
... Its county seat is Memphis ... It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee with a majority African American population, along with Haywood County....
FU, KKK.
White (non-Hispanic) 34.07%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 51.1%
Asian 3.01%
Other/Mixed 3.27%
Hispanic or Latino 8.36%
2020: 33.98% GQP, 64.42% Dem
I think things look good for Justin Pearson tomorrow. Even a RepuQ on the Board, if there are any, might not dare oppose his appointment to his own seat.
The racist and ammosexual House GQP wanted to silence these two young Black men. Instead, the idiots gave them national voices.
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No Justin, No Peace
Prior to the brief special meeting, Pearson marched with demonstrators who were supporting his reinstatement. Speaking in front of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis before the march, Pearson said, “This is the democracy that they’re scared of. This is the democracy that they’re worried about because this is the democracy that changes the status quo.”
Two Democrats missed the meeting, with local reports saying they were out of the country, and all four of the board’s Republican members skipped it....
:wave: Nailed it. Cowards.
Commissioner Erika Sugarmon told FOX13 last week that the state’s Republican leaders had threatened to pull funding for projects in the city if they reappointed Pearson but added, “We've got to stand for something or fall for everything. And we've been bullied by the state for too long now."
Assholes.
Expelled Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, and expelled Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville at the Fisk University campus on April 7, after a visit from Vice President Kamala Harris, who came to support the lawmakers who were expelled from the Tennessee State Legislature.
In a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday morning, Pearson wrote that, in the wake of the shooting, Republican legislators “averted their eyes and hurried into the chamber, walking through hundreds of mourning protesters to discuss a bill to further expand gun rights by allowing teachers to carry weapons on campus.”
“I wasn’t elected to be pushed to the back of the room and silenced,” Pearson continued. “We who were elected to represent all Tennesseans — Black, white, brown, immigrant, female, male, poor, young, transgender and queer — are routinely silenced when we try to speak on their behalf. Last week, the world was allowed to see it in broad daylight.”
TN House GQP and ammosexuals - Most shamed groups in America this month.
... The protests appear to have inspired some action on the gun issue by a GOP-controlled state government that was recently focused on passing restrictions on drag performances and gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who has previously downplayed the need for new gun safety legislation while making it legal for adults in Tennessee to carry a handgun without a permit, signed an executive order Tuesday in an attempt to strengthen background checks. He also called on the legislature to pass legislation that would help keep guns away from people who are a threat to themselves or others....
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teal: States with anti-red flag laws
red: States with red flag laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_law
“To anyone who has doubted the South, anyone who’s doubted the power of Tennesseans to advocate for an end to gun violence, anybody who’s doubted the movement to end assault weapons — anybody who’s doubted the movement, here’s your answer: The movement still lives,” Pearson said Monday on the steps of the Capitol, standing next to Jones.
Good on Tennessee! :clap:
