New “Squad” Member Claims That Filibusters Are Racist And Must Be Abolished
Representative Pramila Jayapal hosted a “The End the Filibuster National Town Hall” last Thursday on a live stream that racked up a minimum of 65 views.
Did you know the longest filibuster speech was from a Democrat senator?
Rep. Cori Bush who is a member of ‘The Squad’ made an appearance on the live stream to give her reasoning as to why “the Senate filibuster must be eliminated.”
“But the thing is, there is this old, outdated racist rule called the filibuster that has been used to deny basic human rights to people who look like me and people who have struggles like everyday people and Senate Republicans more concerned with obstruction and more concerned with taking back control to implement a Trump agenda than they are with saving lives,” Rep. Bush argued.
“They are continuing in their tradition of weaponized the filibuster to deny people in America everything we love. Senate Republicans are blocking H.R. One and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which we could pass right now to reform our democracy and protect our most sacred right to vote,” the representative continued.
Rep. Bush continued to claim that Senate Republicans are blocking “common-sense gun violence prevention legislation” as an effort to “close the loophole that a white supremacist in South Carolina used to get a gun and murder nine innocent souls.”
“Right now, they’re blocking any progress on saving us from the climate crisis, killing our communities, killing our people! We must not allow Senate Republicans to deny our people, our folks, the people that look to us, the people that elected us, the people that voted for us, the people that showed up in the midst of a pandemic that proportionately affects, impacts, takes the lives of black, brown and indigenous folks all off the charts,” Rep. Bush also claimed.
Activist Maurice Mitchell claimed that election security laws will “severely” restrict minorities from voting.
National Director of Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell stated, “It is willful, intentional institutional failure and voter suppression at work. For every person who waits on line, there’s one or more people who have to be at work, who have kids or other relatives to take care of. We cannot condition black folks with that ridiculous sort of sense of Herculean effort. Right.”
“In order to every two years or four years to exercise our constitutional right, our rights should be as easy to access as every American’s rights are to access. Having the backs of black folks means action. Now, in Republican legislatures across the country, we know that there are hundreds of bills moving in. Forty three states that would severely, severely restrict access to the ballot,” Mitchell stated.
Full live video of ‘The End the Filibuster National Town Hall’ with less than 100 views.
