Posted on 01/31/2018 2:46:26 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Black members of Congress made sure they would be heard last night, even if President Donald Trump was doing all the talking.
Members of the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) wore brightly colored yellow, green, black and red kente cloth accents to President Trump’s first State of the Union address, as a sign of defiance against his “sh*thole* comments about African and Caribbean countries.
“The whole idea was to show support for Africa, particularly after the President called Africa and Haiti s-holes,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in an exclusive interview with theGrio. “We thought it would be important for us to demonstrate our support in some way.”
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Even a cheap morality beats none.
Silly people playing dress up with old scarves they found in a Good Will shop
Kunta Kinte cloth never fed a hunger child.
They must be too good to go full African. They apparently prefer western garb.
Read the article. It explains who Recy was.
What does the word (RECY)on the red buttons they’re wearing mean?
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It’s the name of woman who was gang-raped by 6 whites in the 1940s (don’t recall exactly when)who died this year in her 90s.
After Oprah Winfrey’s “Time is up” speech at the Golden Globes earlier this month, some took to Twitter to say the actress/TV personality had given her State of the Union speech.
At the Globes, Winfrey said she hoped the legacy of Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman who was raped by six white men in the 1940s who were never charged with the crime, hoped that Taylor’s truth would go “marching on.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article197499999.html#storylink=cpy
It was either that or ingest some tapeworms.
Well sure, since there is no way they could bring themselves to support the United States of America.
You notice that when Trump announced black unemployment was at its lowest percent EVER - these morose morons still did not applaud.
Ingrates.
Recy Taylor, an African-American woman who was abducted and
raped in Alabama over 60 years ago, but whose perpetrators
were never charged.
It looked like a way to say they aren’t Americans, but visiting from the UN.
They carry around their own toilet paper. It’s reusable, too.
I, and countless others, are long past giving a sh*t.
They had multiple chances, and blew them better than Monica L.
They do not give a smelly Obama about their fellow African Americans. They care only about their low achievement butts.
“The whole idea was to show support for Africa, particularly after the President called Africa and Haiti s-holes,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
I thought she wasn’t going to attend???
Did she lie.............again???????
Another fraud!
As in Koonta kente? Yeah, that was fiction too. Kinda like kwanzaa.
I figured it was the ceremonial server-wiping cloth of the Odunga tribe
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Re-usable toilet paper. They’re keeping the tradition alive, I say.
Look upon our colorful scarves and despair, oh Trumpsters!
Guiterrez also had one over his shoulder when he bolted from the chamber. I thought he was hispanic...
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