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Marjorie Taylor Greenes 14th District: Where the Trail of Tears began
Posted on January 30, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton
Marjorie Taylor Greenes 14th District in the northwest corner of Georgia lies in the center of the lands the Cherokee Nation was forced to vacate at gunpoint during the horrific ethnic cleansing known as the Trail of Tears.
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Greene is the infamous Q-Anon follower who now sits in the House of Representatives where she faces calls for her expulsion over her behavior, death threats, and endorsement of outlandish conspiracy theories. Greene has berated fellow legislators in the halls, called for the death of Nancy Pelosi, and stated that the Sandy Hook school shooting and aspects of the 9-11 terrorist attacks were staged. Fellow Republicans have called her bat-shit crazy and a more aggressive version of Trump, and decried her blatant racism.
Greene won the 14th District easily. The area, known for its diehard Christian conservatives, is disproportionately white, poor, and uneducated. It wasnt always that way.
https://memoriesofthepeople.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/marjorie-taylor-greenes-14th-district-where-the-trail-of-tears-began/
And she has the audacity to go into a hearing and speak some gibberish about CRT......she has no clue what racism is about in her own district but she wants to tell everyone else what it means.....but she sure does like to wear it as some fascist badge......she probably has no clue what ........Tsalagi Gawonihisdi means ........
claudette
(3,571 posts)that she is brain damaged which causes her infantile behavior
underpants
(182,809 posts)There are currently 260,000 residents of Forsyth county. About 8,000 are African American.
In 1912 mins on horseback drove all the black people out.
https://www.history.com/news/georgia-racial-expulsion-stacey-abrams
In 1912, white mobs set fire to black churches and black-owned businesses. Eventually the entire black population of Forsyth County was driven out, says Blood at the Root author Patrick Phillips.
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494063372/the-racial-cleansing-that-drove-1-100-black-residents-out-of-forsyth-county-ga
Diamond_Dog
(32,000 posts)Racists like her want to abolish teaching Black History
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts).
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)MTG is the purveyor of that IGNORANCE.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)I'd gladly let Districts like hers or Gaetz's, or McCarthy's, secede, and form a different country.
Same could be done with States.
But it's just too complicated.
hippywife
(22,767 posts)Because even in the smallest districts, there are people who neither vote for nor deserve to be left under the type of rule these right wingers wish to install, and have in many states. MS denied 90% of federal poverty relief funds to their citizens who applied and qualified for it, but didn't deny use of those funds to Brett Favre to build a volleyball facility; TN is trying to deny federal funds to HIV/AIDS patients, and shit like this goes on in other states, as well, with the right wingers trying to make life unlivable for so many of their constituents.
The reason why it's complicated is that no area of this country is a political monolith, but much of it is gerrymandered and enough voting suppression going on that they're rigged to seem that way.
So, people who want to brush off those who don't subscribe to these idiots and vote against then every single time, don't deserve the kind of brush off you suggest.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Do you think there will be Democratic policies coming out of Greene's, Gaetz's or McCarthy's Districts anytime within the next several decades? I don't. The Democrats in those Districts can vote all they want, but when 70%+ are voting for these Fascists who want to "own the libs," it's not going to matter.
Heck, Boebert won by around 500 votes, and she's acting like it was a mandate. At least there's some hope her District will turn in the next election. MAYBE. But I don't see that happening in Greene's District, and she's probably going to be around a long time, unless perhaps if someone even crazier comes along to defeat her in the Primary.
hippywife
(22,767 posts)You are wanting to allow certain areas of the country to secede because of election outcomes, and what I'm saying those aren't the only people who live in those districts, many who for reasons such as poverty, cannot afford to move out of them. We don't cut people off because of the idiots that they're forced to live with.
That's not how this country works. We even fought a civil war over that fact - to preserve the union so that all continue to be citizens and can continue fighting to enact change as set out by its laws.
themaguffin
(3,826 posts)area of the state to run.
Celerity
(43,383 posts)The only way to ruly fix it is via something similar to forced denazification, and that can only occur if the christofash white power elements in the US start an actual kinetic civil and/or racial war, and then are ground to dust and capitulate/surrender unconditionally.
The coming conflict, if it does manifest itself, will almost assuredly be extraconstitutional in origin, nature, and in remedy, if the Union of the States is to survive. Too many Rubicons (as to impact these inflection points are both shorter and longer term) are being crossed by the RW to avoid this transpiring eventually I fear.