Communion Posted August 12 Posted August 12 Quote Later that month, Bronx middle school principal Jamaal Bowman won a Democratic congressional primary election against incumbent Eliot Engel in New York's 16th District, becoming the first BLM-affiliated member of Congress. (Bowman had become a fixture at protests, sharing his story of having been beaten with a nightstick as a preteen and, later, of having been detained for failing to use a turn signal while driving.) Six weeks after Bowman's primary win, a second activist, St. Louis' Cori Bush, won a Democratic primary in Missouri's 1st District. (She had become an organizer and protest leader after the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson.) Bush became the BLM movement's second congressional rep. Quote The result is an exclamation point on what has become a sad legacy of the largest popular uprising in American history, of which there is now zero evidence in Congress. It took not even two cycles of spending and pushback to bring the George Floyd era to a close. Despite broad popular support for legislation to curtail police violence, Congress got nothing done. Democrats, despite controlling both the House and Senate in 2021 and 2022, slow-walked the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, insisting on bipartisan support that never materialized. Ending qualified immunity, the legal standard that prevents police officers from being sued for wrongdoing even when they knowingly break the law, was deemed not urgent by Jim Clyburn, then the highest-ranking Black member of the Democratic House majority, despite that being a core demand of the protest movement. Once that slipped away, it opened the door to even smaller reforms floating out of reach.
i spit on haters Posted August 12 Posted August 12 I don't even know what to substantively say. This also falls on Biden, too.
Bosque Posted August 12 Posted August 12 (edited) Omar will most likely be next to go. All of them should have focused more on practical legislation when they had their moment, rather than cosplaying as what they thought progressives want to see, and funneling campaign money to their husbands. Edited August 12 by Bosque 1
Bubble Tea Posted August 12 Posted August 12 I don't really know much about US political system it must be said but truly, from an outsider's eyes, it looks so broken and susceptible to corruption. Politics should have representation from all (sensible) leanings, with this contingent representing a very large group of people. How they get elbowed out I don't know.
Communion Posted August 12 Author Posted August 12 20 minutes ago, Bosque said: Omar will most likely be next to go. All of them should have focused more on practical legislation Hoping for black progressives to be primaried despite clearly not knowing their records and attacking the most progressive legislators of our time with baseless attacks as a white German is wild.
Communion Posted August 12 Author Posted August 12 "Cori Bush failed to vote for legislation people wanted bcecause she didn't understand what it means to be a team player!" The legislation centrists (literally below) are referencing in question that Bush voted against:. - *banning any Palestinian from being able to apply for asylum if the Israel government accuses them of uhh working for the official government of Gaza* - *declaring Israel is not an apartheid state and condemning anyone who says it is* - *declaring it antisemitic to protest the genocide in Gaza and condemning anyone who does so* - *more billions in American tax dollars for Israel's weapons systems* This is what centrists claim is practical legislation.
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