Posted on 06/08/2020 3:19:31 PM PDT by Libloather
A former national surrogate for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., ripped into white congressional Democrats on Monday after they wore African-patterned garb and knelt in a demonstration against racism and police brutality.
"I still cant wrap my mind around the fact that they draped these white people in kente cloth to 'honor' him. This has to be hell," author Frederick Joseph tweeted, also arguing that black Americans are "being pandered to, and ultimately, disrespected."
In a tweet thread, he argued that Democrats were failing in their attempts to be helpful amid ongoing strife surrounding George Floyd's death.
He specifically took aim at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who joined other Democrats in kneeling inside of the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday. Democratic members of both the House and Senate knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to honor Floyd, representing the amount of time he was pinned down by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
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"This is a mess," Joseph said in one tweet. In another, he added: "If anyone cant understand why Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and them dressed up like theyre trying to sneak into Wakanda is disrespectful and appropriative you have a great deal to learn." Wakanda is the fictional land in Africa associated with the Marvel superhero Black Panther.
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[To use their ceremonial patterns as a stand-in for a people descended from slaves could be considered a huge insult.]
I read somewhere that a (presumably Democrat) Chinese-American mayor in CA was urged to prostrate herself. She refused. A (presumably Democrat) commenter groused about the pressure to kneel:
Can we please have one person - JUST ONE - who can explain to the people of our country why this ONE death demands that the country be destroyed because of it? They can also explain why we all have to march to the same drummer!
If they don’t finish the job in the streets, it will be an ongoing discussion/argument to get rid of our law enforcement agencies that will take all their time from now to November 2020. Once that happens, the only thing left will be to come get our weapons.
Without law enforcement, who is going to do that bit of nasty work for them? THEY’VE already announced that guns are dangerous and they’re afraid of them. Why not demand that the military cease to exist while they’re at it?
Once law enforcement goes - all Secret Service protection for EVERYONE and ANYONE has to go too!
Did you get waterfront property? I got one of the last lots going.
Nanzi stayed on her knees longer because she couldn’t get up. I wish they had called 911.
Kunta Pelosi.
Maybe spelled with a “C.”
Wakandians would not be wearing masks.
If George Floyd was white and Chauvin anything else, he’d have died of covid and used as an excuse to extend the lockdown for another month.
Yeah you’d think they would yell “Don’t kneel. Don’t kneel.”
Is that Schumer giving the Spock sign? Didn’t realize he was a trekkie. ;-)
Looks like cultural appropriation to me...
Democrats keep making all of these wonderful campaign ads for the GOP in the Fall - it would be a shame if the party remains too cowardly to use them. :)
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