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TexasTowelie

(127,685 posts) Sun Apr 9, 2023, 03:26 PM Apr 2023

Tennessee expulsion vote is 'voter disenfranchisement': Pearson - This Week - ABC News

ABC News’ Jon Karl interviews expelled Tennessee representative State Rep. Justin Pearson on “This Week.”

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Tennessee expulsion vote is 'voter disenfranchisement': Pearson - This Week - ABC News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2023 OP

That was my first Thought, too - they were recently elected, chosen by the voters Rhiannon12866 Apr 2023 #1

Some things have never changed in the South and I suspect they never will. TexasTowelie Apr 2023 #2

I really don't get it, appears that an entire part of the country missed the Civil Rights Movement Rhiannon12866 Apr 2023 #3

Rhiannon12866

(256,814 posts)

1. That was my first Thought, too - they were recently elected, chosen by the voters

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Apr 9, 2023, 03:52 PM

Apr 2023

This is the most obvious and blatant example of voter suppression, the Republicans didn't like the winning candidates, just expel them!

TexasTowelie

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2. Some things have never changed in the South and I suspect they never will.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 9, 2023, 04:23 PM

Apr 2023

Now the legislators are threatening to defund the districts that Jones and Pearson represent if they are reelected just because those GOP legislators are spiteful.

Rhiannon12866

(256,814 posts)

3. I really don't get it, appears that an entire part of the country missed the Civil Rights Movement

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 9, 2023, 08:48 PM

Apr 2023

And I blame Andrew Johnson who thwarted Reconstruction after Lincoln's death. The plan was to give all Freedmen 40 acres and a mule, but Johnson returned much of that land to the former Southern owners so they would "owe" him. And so the unequal treatment continued. Got this from the Reconstruction series on PBS.

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