even when you are in the extreme minority it is important that you speak up for your constituency and that they have a voice and that s exactly what they did. and unfortunately, the republicans are not really the smartest folks sometimes, right? so, they did not think thi through. they thought that they would just go ahead and do this, and no one would pay attention o no one would care. because it was two black eyes, right? they were like, well, wait maybe we should not do it fo the white woman. but no one is going to car about these black men. but guess what the entire community cam together and show them tha they did care. because this is not about or should not be about race it should be about fairness. and it should be about letting people be the voice that the have been elected to be even i you disagree with that because that s what democrac looks like and ironically, the protest was actually about guns, jus to start with. so, right after a mass shootin in texas, something that
counter these majority, so what s the lesson you learne from all of the things that yo and your colleagues did in the texas state legislature that you are now seeing happening i certain places what the to justin s did i tennessee what are the lessons for bot democracy, for legislators, an for voters to look at thes things and say, we are in doom loop? we can t get out of here i think we as the texas democrats, we ran the alarms and we basically said, listen. democracy is under attack. most people were not payin attention to what the suprem was doing as it relates to the voting rights act. most people had not connecte the dots around gerrymandering most people don t quit understand what gerrymandering looks like but when you talk abou wisconsin wisconsin really is a very goo example. how is it that you have the u. s. senate race that it s almos 50/50 and ironically, the protest was actually about guns, jus to start with. so, right after a mass shootin
happened here in nashville rather than responding wit compassion, he responded b demonizing young people who ar simply saying we want to live. we don t want kids shot in elementary schools this is preventable. we should act. instead of listening to the us young people and encouraging them and comforting them, th speaker incited he tried against them and try to portra them as violent. these marches were at the you reminded me of march for our lives in florida and representative johnson, ther is a republican stat representative william lambert who asked protesters, thes kids, who are out there just trying to survive, getting through high school alive, quote, is there a firearm ar there that you are comfortable being shot with, he ha corporately. please show me which one it is it is shocking to me that that is the kind of rhetoric that i happening in your state, you house of representatives, an that it is you all that they are trying to expel. do you expect this vote to actually be take
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