Al Green responds to boy insult

[malaise]

[Kid Berwyn]

1. "We cannot allow the normalization of these slurs."

"Unfortunately, these slurs start at the top -- the president."

"...and it was said over the airwaves."

[malaise]

2. Yep

Rec

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Love and Respect.

They are the essence of the Golden Rule.

However, people like Diana Harshbarger believe themselves superior to other people.

God, are they wrong.

[True Dough]

4. She's putting the "Harsh" in her official conduct

What a dingleberry!

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Really does. Diana Harshbarger and her kin also are crooks.

From the Wiki:

In August 2021, Business Insider reported that Harshbarger had violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012, a federal transparency and conflict-of-interest law, by failing to properly disclose over 700 stock trades worth between $728,000 and $10.9 million.

[surfered]

9. Exactly. Trump emboldened the bullies and the racists

[cab67]

6. The Speaker is going to have to step up here.

Yeah, he's a nutjob Republican - but this sort of thing is really bad optics, even for them.

[senseandsensibility]

10. I wouldn't count on it

I hope I'm wrong.

[Aristus]

12. Some Bible-thumping swamp-swimmer from Looseyanna?

Don’t hold your breath…

[usaf-vet]

7. For those who don't know who the name caller is, read below.

​U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger, a Republican from Tennessee, referred to Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas as "boy" during an interview with the Christian media organization F.A.M.E. Ministries. In the same interview, she also claimed that Green did not need his cane to walk and referred to it as a "prop." Additionally, she mentioned that one of her colleagues suggested unscrewing the top of Green's cane to "see if there's a gun in there." Harshbarger further referred to Green as "just weird Al."

Here she is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Harshbarger

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[malaise]

8. Thanks

Rec

[Skittles]

11. I say this frequently

if had behaved on the job like these racist, bigoted, xenophobic repukes, I would have been terminated QUICKLY

[paleotn]

13. Is anyone surprised?

Harshbarger is simply saying what we all know they're thinking. The mask slipped a little and she said it out loud. But I'm not surprised in the least. I know where she's from. I've lived in Tennessee's 1st congressional district. Many of her constituents think the same about people of color. And they have the gall to say American doesn't have a racism problem. Are you kidding me? I use to live among them. Of course they're racist!

[steelyboo]

14. She would have got hit back with a NSFW response I remember from an old comedian

"Boy? Boy? Lady, I got a yard full of dick, a basket full of balls, and enough hair on my ass to weave a blanket! Who are you calling "boy"?" - Jay Hickman

[taxi]

15. The systemic racism held by so many people is invisible to them. They don't think they are being racist.

The same holds true for all of their (our) otherisms.
I have tried so hard for so many years not to be that guy. But with systemic racism it is only one slip of the tongue away.

Not long ago while at work, one of the kids used the word bitch. Of course I had to say something, so I told him words like that, harmful words, will come out at the wrong time, whether you want it or not. Of course he responded by telling me how careful he is, and that he wouldn't call someone a bitch. He just didn't get it. So I gave him an example of how using these labels work.

As a driver for a limo service, I frequented a convenience store near the airport. Everyone there recognized me, and we had cordial relationships. Very early one morning a truck was delivering their products while I was there. I looked at the woman behind the counter and said, "I don't know how you people do it." All of a sudden I was that guy. And it hurt.

When I said you people, it meant you people who work these late shifts. But there was no going back.

What was said in calling Congressman Green, "boy", is not a slip of the tongue. It is not an example of systemic racism. It is outright racism. It is acceptable to U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger, a 65-year-old Republican from Tennessee, and her circle to use these terms. This isn't a slip of the tongue. This isn't something that some kid has never been counseled on. This is open and outright hostility and it has to stop. Excuse my language here - fucking republicans.

[LymphocyteLover]

16. Love Al Green! He's the best!

[ShazzieB]

17. And she hasn't said a word since this hit the fan, has she?

Shame on her. Shame, shame, shame.