Justin Jones and Justin Pearson’s expulsion isn’t the first time Black politicians have been kicked out of office for going against the grain—it also happened after the Civil War, writes Rotimi Adeoye.
on the Capitol. As if peacefully protesting for the government to address the systemic problem of gun violence is the same as a violent insurrection in which hundreds of police officers were injured.
Anthony Michael Kreis, a Professor of Law at Georgia State University a constitutional law scholar, told The Daily Beast: “The lesson of 1868 is there was certainly an impulse in Georgia resistant to any Black political power in the state legislature. What we saw unfold in Tennessee is a resistance to the same dynamic, where you had very strong leaders who represent heavily black populations and they are being met with a certain infantilization and dismissiveness.
It’s painful to watch the treatment of the Tennessee 3 on our cellphones and television screens. For all the progress our nation has made, moments like these can feel as if we are going backwards in time, and reversing decades of racial progress.multi-racial democracy
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