Posted on 02/03/2022 5:59:20 AM PST by thegagline
Democratic Tennessee state Senator Katrina Robinson said she feels beat up due to her expulsion from the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday in the first instance since at least the Civil War of the Legislature expelling a lawmaker.
The GOP-led Senate passed a motion in a 27-5 vote to expel Robinson, according to Nashville's WTVF. In connection to her conviction on federal charges, a Senate ethics committee had previously recommended Robinson's expulsion, which the senator called a "procedural lynching" in a speech on the Senate floor posted to her Facebook page.
Robinson had been convicted of wire fraud involving federal grant money at a school for health care school workers she ran in Memphis before being elected to the state Senate, the Associated Press reported. Robinson and other Democrats said that her expulsion was premature, pointing to the fact that many of the initial charges against Robinson were dropped and that she has not received sentencing in connection to two remaining counts.
"Today the country got a front row seat to the saddening reality that racism pervades every level of our society," Robinson said in a statement to Newsweek. "Even as a sitting state senator, I was denied equal rights among my peers."
She said the proceedings were an attack on "black leadership, black women, and the black vote." ***
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What a joke........ Black is not American. Black is bad.
The Afro Heritage minority minority are Americans. She is not one of them. She is a corrupt Black enemy
Of course she pulls out all the cards because she knows she is toast. Pathetic
Oh the drama!
Where will she go to get her privilege back?
Using leftist logic, since her expulsion is the first since the US Civil War, and Tennessee was a Confederate state, this makes her a slave holding racist, so she should be canceled.
When everything is about race, then nothing is about race.
If minorities want “equality” in this nation then that means they get both the good and the bad. If you get convicted of a federal crime then perhaps you should not be a state senator.
Using the “race card” as a shield to deflect any criticism does a disservice to all citizens and it should shame those that use it.
Blacks keep saying that they built America so go back to Africa and build America there and you will be the blessed elite as you want.
Instead of apologizing to her fellow blacks for providing a p*ss poor example of one to the nation, she blames whitey.
Make Wakanda Great Again
“She said the proceedings were an attack on “black leadership, black women, and the black vote.”
Well if she’ll just wait till biden gets what he’s due it’ll look monochromatic.
If minorities want “equality” in this nation then that means they get both the good and the bad.
Didn’t the TN Senate just previously kick out two crooked Republican state senators?
That's FORMER Tennessee Senator Katrina Robinson.
When caught, she throws the race card. So typical. Why not? It often works. I pray for the time when people are told to shove their race card. Seriously, why would you not laugh at such an idiot?
Robinson was originally charged with 48 counts involving $600,000 in federal funds meant for scholarships.
A federal judge decreased the number of charges against Robinson from 20 to five during the trial, and she was later found guilty of four of the charges,
Just a wild guess, but maybe those Civil War era expulsions also involved Democrats?
“A lot of those charges were dropped!”
But apparently some stuck.
But as we saw from the summer of love 2020 - laws don’t apply to blacks people, right?
It’s time to end this affirmative action charade.
So she was unaware of her conviction on federal charges?
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