White Male Privilege: SIT DOWN and SHUT UP [View all]

[sheshe2]

Last edited Wed May 13, 2020, 06:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Yes, Mitch told our first Black President to Sit Down and Shut Up! Then called him classless for criticizing Trumpies botched, chaotic response to the pandemic.

Let us not forget this is not the first time he abused his perceived white male privilege and position as Senate leader, McTurtle did it to Warren and by default Corretta Scott King.

Mitch McConnell tells Elizabeth Warren (and Coretta Scott King) to sit down and shut up

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the Senate floor in the debate over the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Warren was reading a portion of Coretta Scott King's letter to the Judiciary Committee from 1986, when Sessions was up for a federal judgeship, which he was denied because he was too much of a goddamned racist.

Warren responded to McConnell’s objection incredulously: "Mr. President, I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States senate. I ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks." "Object."

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McConnell is using Senate Rule 19 against Warren, a rarely used means of censuring—and trying to silence—a colleague. The rule says senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator." She was reading someone else's words at the time, in fact not just Scott King's, but also the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, quoting his statement that "referred to Sessions as a 'throwback to a shameful era' and a 'disgrace' to the Justice Department."

Stupid move, McConnell. You take on one the lightening rods of the resistance—Elizabeth Warren? And Coretta Scott King? Over the nomination of this "throwback to a shameful era"? You will rue this day. And you are reminding the whole world that Scott King says Sessions is a racist. Let's just put the words that McConnell is trying to suppress out there again, where everyone can see them.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/7/1631178/-Mitch-McConnell-tries-to-silence-Elizabeth-Warren-Coretta-Scott-King-on-Sessions-nomination


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Are your ears so stuffed with lobbyist money that you can’t hear the American people,
@SenateMajLdr McConnell? - Sen. Elizabeth Warren

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2020/05/mcconnell-has-gone-full-trump.html


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So to summarize the POS 'Senate Majority leader' has used his white male privilege's to try to silence a former President that happens to be black, the Senior Senator from MASS, who happens to be female and brilliantly outspoken and Coretta Scott King a powerful advocate for black lives who happens to be black and a soul mate to MLK.

I am out of words.