Rep Pressley shouts down Black Women
A strange thing happened last night at a Liz Warren campaign rally in Atlanta GA. The event was held at Clark University. Warren was introduced by Rep Ayanna Pressley (squad member & rising radical) who recently endorsed Warren.
Warren began by saying:
“Fighters I want to talk about tonight are black women. “As a white woman I will never fully understand the discrimination, the pain, the harm that black Americans have experienced just because of the color of their skin.”
Then the chants from the back of the hall began:
“Our children, our choice!”
The chants were coming from a group of black women, who were obviously in favor of school choice - a policy not popular with the DNC, but very popular within precincts of the black community that have to deal with failing schools.
Warren, not used to direct confrontation, tried to speak over them. Even some of Warren's supporters tried to come to her aid by chanting "Warren", but they also were drowned out by the black women in the back!
Pressley, evidently realizing that in progressive ideology only another black woman would have the status required to counter the protesters, took to the stage and addressed the crowd. She used a much stronger tone than Warren:
“I want to say something,” Pressley said. “No one is here to quiet you — at least not this black woman who knows what it is when people try to put me in a corner and tell me to be quiet.”
“You are welcome here." “The senator is here to talk about the contributions, fighters like you, have made to history so in this moment, there are many people that do not know this story because we have rendered as a historical footnote in history so I am going to appeal to you to not dishonor that history.”
Warren stood slightly behind her with that look of the frightened deer frozen by the oncoming head lights. Pressley continued:
“We are grateful for your activism and your voice and you are welcome here and we would love to convene after this about the issue that you are here to stoke our consciousness about.”
“But when these women have been ignored this long, this is their moment and we are going to hear the story”
With that the Warren supporters were able to rise to a round of applause and the protest was derailed.
Maybe these women were new to the art of protest? Or maybe it is the beginning of a real movement for school choice?
With a few words they were silenced.
Who knew it could be that easy?
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Ayanna Pressley has thus far paid political dividends for Warren.
Rules of civility apply
I think the upcoming election will show the Democrats that the black vote is not a sure thing for them anymore.
We can only hope. It is a tough sell even when the President's policy is producing jobs for everyone.
I'd be pleasantly surprised. Ten per cent would be an enormous step. The other thing to look at is black voter participation. In 2012 it was at a high water mark and really helped win a second term for Barak Obama. In 2016 it was low. Much to be considered as the DNC primaries play out.
We will have to see. We know that school choice is important to many black Americans. The GOP is the party of school choice. The democratic party is the party of the Teachers Union and NO choice. Will black Americans vote for what really benefits them? or continue to march to the drumbeat of "racism is the problem" that dems sell every election cycle?
I'm so glad that Liz Warren has finally admitted that she is white, because she spent decades claiming that she is Native American.
Is this the same rally where she lied about BOTH of her children's educations having been only in public schools?