Here's Sheila's district.
Posted on 01/10/2019 6:57:44 AM PST by Red Badger
A tragic death that was wrongly held up as a racial attack has forced many on the left to quickly backpedal, but a Democrat congresswoman is bizarrely doubling-down on her inflammatory rhetoric.
Back on Dec. 30, a 7-year-old girl named Jazmine Barnes was shot and killed in Houston. Barnes was black, a fact that should not matter but quickly became a major factor in the case.
At first, authorities thought a white man may have been involved in the crime. They posted details about a person of interest in the case, but made it clear that this was only one of several angles they were looking into.
As it turns out, two men have been arrested in the case and charged with capital murder in Jazmine’s death, according to USA Today. Both men are black, and authorites now think the killing was a case of mistaken identity.
The first arrest was announced Sunday. The second on Tuesday.
But before those arrests were made, and apparently eager to push a specific narrative, voices including “social justice” activist Shaun King used online platforms to openly declare that a racist white man had murdered the black girl, despite the fact that this was nothing but speculation.
“A 40 y/o white man w/ a beard … pulled up on 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes and her family near a Houston Walmart and shot and killed her,” King posted on Jan. 1 to over a million followers from his verified Twitter account.
URGENT. ALL HANDS ON DECK.
A 40 y/o white man w/ a beard in a red pickup truck pulled up on 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes and her family near a Houston @Walmart and shot and killed her and injured others.
I am joining the search for her killer and have a $25,000 reward.
Need him NOW. pic.twitter.com/ugfA2nJ1k8
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 1, 2019
Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee quickly jumped into the fray. During a news conference on Friday, she declared that the girl had been the target of a racially motivated hate crime.
“I believe – and having written hate crime legislation, knowing the criteria, I believe that this should be looked at as a hate crime,” the outspoken liberal declared. “We don’t want to have on the street someone who is willing to kill children and possibly kill them in the name of hate.”
She said similar things the next day, saying “do not be afraid to call this what it seems to be — a hate crime,” according to ABC News and The New York Times.
An attorney working with Barnes’ family echoed the same theme, and seemed to blame the girl’s tragic death on widespread racism in America. “(W)e do believe that (the killing) was racially motivated in part because our nation at this moment is highly racially charged,” he declared, according to Fox News.
That narrative, of course, quickly fell apart with the arrests of the first black suspect.
Incredibly, however, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee refused to acknowledge that she may have wrongly rushed to call the incident a hate crime and essentially pin it on white America — when a black man had been arrested for the death.
“Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, when asked Sunday by a reporter about some of the comments made in the aftermath of the young girl’s death in Houston on Dec. 30, said it was ‘absolutely not’ irresponsible to make that suggestion,” Fox News reported.
“(N)othing is irresponsible when it comes to the loss of a precious 7- or 8-year old,” the Democrat pushed back.
Nobody disputes that the girl’s death was tragic and senseless, but for a sitting congresswoman to say that “nothing is irresponsible” when pushing potentially inflammatory narratives about a matter of life and death is an appalling statement.
Really, nothing is irresponsible, ever? What she’s essentially saying is that the ends always justify the means, at least when a victim happens to be a certain race.
What if a man had been wrongly linked to a crime he didn’t commit because people like Jackson Lee refused to wait before all the facts had come in? What if people incorrectly believed that racism was behind the girl’s death, and a wedge of hate between Americans was driven even further?
The fact of the matter is that yes, there is a point where this is very irresponsible. When someone is killed, what they and their families deserve is calm and clear-eyed justice, not widespread speculation and race-baiting.
Jumping to the wrong conclusions and making everything about race — facts be damned — is exactly how shameful lynchings used to happen in our country’s darker times. That was deeply wrong then, and would be just as wrong now even if the skin colors involved were switched.
We need less inflammatory rhetoric, not more. We need the patience to wait for facts, not a rush to push narratives over reality. Yet liberals like Jackson Lee seem to view everything through the lens of racism, even when it’s not there.
That’s sad … and if she truly wants a better America for all races, she should acknowledge that her words sowed seeds of division, and think carefully before fanning racial flames. We can all be better than that.
Perhaps, or perhaps something like this:.
If you’re black and don’t much care if the police find who murdered your kid, report the shooter as black, no press coverage, no pressure, and minimal police action.
Report it as white on black crime, and the press and police pull out all the stops. They’ll catch the perp in short order.
Which, I'd like to point out, they did.
*sigh*
“That’s sad … and if she truly wants a better America for all races...”
LOL, Sheila Jackson Lee is a full blown anti-America, anti-Semitic, anti-White, anti-Christian Communist. She despises the United States of America and everything that has made this nation exceptional.
There’s so much more to this demonic woman, at the source:
SHEILA JACKSON LEE
Congresswoman representing the 18th District of Texas
Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Member of the Congressional Black Caucus
Commonly accuses her political opponents of racism
http://www.discoverthenetworks.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=981
Here’s a sample:
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Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee
A congressional torture chamber
https://dailycaller.com/2011/03/02/congressional-bosses-from-hell-sheila-jackson-lee/
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The Queen of Texas
Race-baiting, clueless, and cocky? Sheila Jackson Lee is the perfect Obama nominee.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/08/queen-texas-ian-tuttle/
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Sheila Jackson Lee: Racist and Moron
If there was ever a global championship for idiots, the country could send her there.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/99865/sheila-jackson-lee-racist-and-moron-daniel-greenfield
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During a 1997 visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee, who was then serving on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees U.S. space policy, asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to show an image of “the flag the astronauts planted there before.” When it was subsequently pointed out that the flag to which she was referring was in fact the one that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon—not Mars—in 1969, Jackson Lee complained that she was being mocked by bigots. “You thought you could have fun with a black woman member of the Science Committee,” her then-chief-of-staff wrote angrily in a letter to the editor.
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In July 2010, Jackson Lee spoke at an NAACP meeting where she derided the Tea Party movement as a racist phenomenon, saying: “All those who wore [Klansman] sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing, uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the Tea Party. Don’t you be fooled. Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement.”
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When some states promoted and passed Voter ID laws, Jackson Lee—asserting that such laws were designed to suppress black turnout on election day—characterized them as part of a racist backlash against the fact that “we elected the first African American president” (Barack Obama).
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In 2011 Jackson Lee went to the House floor and suggested that congressional Republicans were opposed to raising the U.S. federal debt ceiling because of their race-based hatred for President Obama. She said: “I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president, only this one, only this one has received the kind of attacks and disagreements and inability to work. Only this one. Read between the lines. What is different about this president, that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills ...?”
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In 2011 Jackson Lee denounced congressional committee hearings on Islamic terrorism as “an effort to demonize and to castigate a whole broad base of human beings.” Complaining that the committee was giving too little attention to “the cold cases of the civil-rights movement,” she encouraged its members to hold hearings to determine “whether Klansmen still roam today and terrorize individuals in parts of this country.”
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In January 2012, Jackson Lee condemned former congressman Newt Gingrich for having recently dubbed Barack Obama “the food stamp president” because the number of Americans receiving food-stamp benefits had risen dramatically during his Administration. That moniker, said the congresswoman, was a racially coded term whose “underlying suggestions” were intended to promote “racial divisiveness.” Jackson Lee also denounced Gingrich’s suggestion that in some inner-city schools, students could be paid to do some janitorial work as a way of helping them learn good work habits and responsibility. By the congresswoman’s calculus, the fact that the children in question were “predominantly Latino and African American” made Gingrich’s idea, “by its very words, divisive and destructive.”
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In 2009 Jackson Lee helped to prevent conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh from becoming a part-owner of the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams franchise, on grounds that Limbaugh was racially insensitive. “He [Limbaugh] does not represent the fullness of appreciation of athletes of all diverse backgrounds, no matter what he wants to pretend to say on his radio station,” said the congresswoman.
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No. Only white people can hate.
That’s sad … and if she truly wants a better America for all races, she should acknowledge that her words sowed seeds of division, and think carefully before fanning racial flames. ..............................Ms Lee, is the prime example of “Stupid is what stupid does”, the only thing more stupid than her are those who send her to congr5ess.
Imagine a Congress FULL OF THESE IGNORAMUSES....................
That’s a really good idea for a book.
“Idiocracy (2006)” wasn’t a comedy, it was a documentary.
“Really, nothing is irresponsible, ever? What she’s essentially saying is that the ends always justify the means, at least when a victim happens to be a certain race.”
I do that when I’m trolling the Left, and it looks like I’m not really trolling after what she said.
On Leftist/Mainstream sites, I would often say something like “Well, maybe the killer wasn’t white this time but we all know that whites just love to see little black girls being killed...”
I like to say WHAT THEY THINK, because that is what they think and now Shelia has proven just that.
Here's Sheila's district.
TEXAS suffers with this one congressional district that re-elects Sheila the fascist.
The rest of us are responsible for Republicans and deplore the potato head, Cornyn, who speaks to Texans only in his re-election year, and has proven himself no friend to Trump.
And, Cruz is on a thread for the delegate stealing and the snit fit of bitterness he displayed when even that ploy didn’t pay off at the National Convention.
Had ONLY one more vote in I believe it was in each TEXAS county, gone for BUTTO, Cruz would have LOST. Close call, in that example.
So, yes, TEXAS is on a thread, as well, as Cruz.
I used to live in Texas. That moronic idiot Lee must be from Austin or Houston. That is where all the un-thinking lib congregate.
I foolishly thought better of the people in Texas.
Queen Sheila is a carpet bagging New Yorker who took over a seat that was held by an equally ignorant and corrupt Dem Congressman. Her district is constructed to elect such a person.
Cannot the Texas legislature redistrict her butt out of office? I know they meet only every two years..................
Maybe she should be “torn down” as a racist reminder of our racist past?
Houston area..................
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I know. I wish.
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I know. I wish.
Have you looked at her district? If not look it up. She
has a district designed to keep her in elected power.
In 1939 they would have said Jews killed her. There is nothing new under the sun.
Free stuff, that’s why they keep electing her. When she is gone, which probably won’t be until she dies, they will elect someone just as bad to take her place. The people in her district are on the welfare train.
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