The Tennessee House of Representatives took the unprecedented move of expelling Rep. Justin Jones (D – Nashville), a Vanderbilt Divinity School student, and Rep. Justin Pearson (D – Memphis) the body’s two youngest Black lawmakers. The resolutions passed in a party-line vote on April 6, while a resolution to expel Rep. Gloria Johnson (D.
and people are watching that - no matter what color you are no matter what race or background you are, but the wa they were spoken to. the way they were spoken to is being seen by everybody. and so representation really matters and everybody is going to see a change in that. i want to bring int students who helped organize these protests, brynn jones an ezri tyler, our march for ou lives organizers fro vanderbilt university. you have both been organizin and protesting at the stat house since monday ezri, who are these protesters and what drives you to be there? yeah, absolutely. these protesters is a broa coalition of students across every single level o education. we have students as young as six years old coming out we have menace coolers highschoolers. and we also have universitie seen from across not only th city of nashville but also across the state we have busloads of students coming from memphis, fro knoxville, to support th representatives. and besides our students w have
have to watch. i think this is going to be turning point. people are not going to take their eyes off of what is goin on here in tennessee and i expect people to be ou here protesting again here o monday, thursday, and ever single week moving forward until some change happens here ezri tyler and brynn jones, thank you for coming to th show and thank you, personally, for what you are doing representative harris, pleas stay with us because up next we will be joined by a professor from a historically black universit in nashville, to talk about th dark roots that jason jone alluded to in tennessee. realtor.com (in a whisper) where do we even start our house search? the house whisperer! this house says start with deep search filters on realtor.com. and all the missing socks, are behind the dryer. realtor.com. to each their home. the first time you made a sale online with godaddy was also the first time you heard of a town named dinosaur, colorado. we just got an order from dinosaur, color
the way to our state reps that we are standing behind now and brynn, you wrote in the tennessean, quote, i have message for the members of the tennessee legislature. shame on you shame on you for spending time and taxpayer money on bannin books and drag, trying t rename streets in nashville an reducing the size of cit councils are these really the issue that are affecting tennesseean the most, while kids are dying in our schools brynn, has any republica member sat down with you t discuss this issue no, they haven t. i m from nashville, actually i ve lived here for almost all of my life and i have six generations o tennesseeans in my family. and not a single one has reached out to any of us t talk about what it is that w really want behind these issues. which, it s not anything radical it s common sense gun contro we want to stop people fro dying in our cities.
lives organizers fro vanderbilt university. you have both been organizin and protesting at the stat house since monday ezri, who are these protesters and what drives you to be there? yeah, absolutely. these protesters is a broa coalition of students across every single level o education. we have students as young as six years old coming out we have menace coolers highschoolers. and we also have universitie seen from across not only th city of nashville but also across the state we have busloads of students coming from memphis, fro knoxville, to support th representatives. and besides our students w have a coalition of parents an elected officials at every level, from school, boards all the way to our state reps that we are standing behind now and brynn, you wrote in the tennessean, quote, i have message for the members of the tennessee legislature. shame on you shame on you for spending time and taxpayer money on bannin books and drag, trying t rename streets in nashville an reduci