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[Jay]

Expelled Black lawmaker Pearson to return to Tennessee House

Commissioners in Memphis have voted to reinstate the second of two Black Democrats kicked out of the Republican-led Tennessee House. The Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to send Justin Pearson back to the Legislature in Nashville. Pearson is expected to return to the Capitol...

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Situations like this only further prove to me the need for self sufficiency. We will NOT be able to change this system if we depend on it to survive.

We can vote Black people in and they can be removed at will. We can elect Black leadership and they can make whole overlay governments ontop of it like we see in Mississippi.

The system does not respect us and it doesn’t have to because we depend on it for EVERYTHING.

 

[ZxBro]

Black Voices being censored equals Jim Crow 3.0 we're moving into the next phase.....this happened in the Maryland legislature too with a white man telling a Black Chairwoman (the first in Maryland history) that she needs to step down.....

 

[Sovereign]

What do you suggest we do?

 

[Sapphire]

Justin Pearson is a grifting joke though. How and why would anyone support that fool? Look at his videos from 2016. He is playing people. Dude was all Obama back then, playing the middle-ground. Acting like we can make peace and all this nonsense. He went from sounding like some posh white newscaster to a preacher. My father hates this man. He is using black folks to get power and attention. Do not trust these people. People like Justin don't give a shit about black communities, he will sell your ass out to the highest white bidder.

You have to find people in your own community and have them prove to you that they can be trusted. Don't just believe them cause they are black. Make them earn that favor and trust and if they can't boot them the f out. Focus on building up your family, your neighborhood, and your community. That is where we can see and impact change. Not looking to fools like this.

It gets under my skin to see this happening. These politicians get into power just to line their pockets and it makes it worse when a black man or woman does it because black families in America have it the hardest. Like how the f you going to take advantage of your own people who are already at odds with a system that hates them?

 

[Redd*Blitz]

All skin folk ain't kin folk! This same clown isn't at all what he's being hyped up to be. Pearson, imo, is no more than another bought and paid token puppet. Pearson serves no real representation for Blacks at all. Pearson is all a minstrel show with no true intentions in ever pushing and fighting for our economic growth. This throwback, Aaron McGruff, Boondocks looking spoof character is not moving to me at all. Pearson is all a TOBY in disguise.

 

[Jay]

All skin folk ain't kin folk! This same clown isn't at all what he's being hyped up to be. Pearson, imo, is no more than another bought and paid token puppet. Pearson serves no real representation for Blacks at all. Pearson is all show, but no true intentions in really pushing and fighting for our growth. I have yet to hear the Aaron McGruff Boondocks looking spoof character specifically and significantly address the real issues affecting the Black communities.

Yes but that is besides the point. Even if he wasn't goofy the same thing would have happened and probably a lot sooner which is my overall point.

 

[Redd*Blitz]

Yes but that is besides the point. Even if he wasn't goofy the same thing would have happened and probably a lot sooner which is my overall point.

No doubt, but I feel had Pearson been more an actual, no nonsense, unapologetic, fighting rebel like a Eric Mays, then such a real and hard-hitting effect would really get under the dominant society's skin, enough to have those snarling bastards panicking and running around like chickens with heads cut off.