Posted on 06/07/2023 3:57:19 PM PDT by Libloather
Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush, a member of the House Oversight Committee, said this week that being "anti-woke" is the same as being "anti-Black."
"When you say I’m ‘anti-woke’, when you talk about wokeness, you’re saying I’m anti-black, and I don’t want black people to speak up for themselves. I don’t want equality and justice for black folks," the Missouri Democrat said during a House Oversight Committee meeting on Tuesday during a hearing on environmental, social and governance, which is also known as ESG and derided by many conservatives as a way for the left to use social credit score to force businesses and financial institutions to adopt progressive ideologies.
"I say to those who say, ‘Wokeness, wokeness, wokeness’ who are anti-woke that this is not wokeness what we talked about in here," Bush continued. "And you should be on the side of folks who say they are woke because we are saying no more oppression against our community."
"So whatever else is being thrown around, unless you are saying, ‘I’m racist. I’m white supremacist, and I’m bigoted,' stop talking about wokeness, and you can’t tell me that I’m wrong because I’m from the very movement where this came about. Don’t let a fascist tell you what being woke means."
Bush reiterated her position on Twitter the next day saying, "As Democrats, we’ve got to push back on the GOP’s ‘war on woke.’ We know it’s rooted in anti-Blackness. We cannot sit idly by as these folks get in front of cameras and yell, "Woke," at everything."
"It’s our communities that the GOP is targeting. We have to stand up for us."
Bush, a member of the group of House progressives known as "The Squad," took aim at conservatives again by saying that supporters of election integrity...
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Well Cori go complain to your Liberal White and Gay Allies that just like with everything else co-oped, so please stop complaining token.
Honkey, please.
The actual origin of “woke” was insulting to intelligent black people. They know awakened was intended.
As for Juneteenth, same story.
If you say you’re a democrat, you’re a totalitarian socialist.
Easy peasy.
The racist Bush is burnishing her black racist credentials.
Seig heil!
OK
I'm anti-idiot.
That automatically makes me anti-cori bush.
So black people are all “woke”?
Who’s the real racist bigot here?
Then call me anti-black, B*tch.
Bush is a whore
Says the AOC Squawd Squaw.
I no longer care what names a leftist cares to call me. I have no interest in whether they approve of me.
“You ain’t woke, man!””
he he he ....ya I seeeeee it
I am definitely antiblack
“Don’t let a fascist tell you what being woke means.”
That’s rich Cori. You maroon.
And you, Bush, being a supposed Democrat are a Groomer.
As am I.
My thoughts exactly!
And a traitor!
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