Posted on 02/11/2021 6:01:31 AM PST by rustyweiss74
Representative Ayanna Pressley says she felt a “deep and ancestral” terror at the hands of “white supremacist mobs” during last month’s riot at the Capitol.
Pressley (D-MA) made the comments during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
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“As a black woman, to be barricaded in my office using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me,” she said.
The Democrat lawmaker went on to suggest the riots were carried out at the hands of white supremacists, something she claims African-Americans have had to “clean up after” for generations.
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they're just making up sh1t as they go along
Me too! I have an ancestral fear of slavery from both sides, and hence double what she suffers. My Irish ancestors were abducted into slavery by the raiding Barbary Pirates at the same time her African ancestors were. Worse, my German ancestors were made slaves by the Romans and were treated far more harshly in pagan Rome and Athens than hers may have been in a Christian Atlanta.
Angry Black Lady. Angry because she doesn’t have Jennifer Aniston Hair. Angry at whites and white hair.
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