Watch: Moment Democrat Al Green sings to protest his censure
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Green and fellow Democrats began singing after the House voted to censure the Texas congressman over his Trump speech disruption.

Congressman Al Green and fellow Democrats began singing the civil rights song “We Shall Overcome,” after the House voted to censure the Texas lawmaker.

Green was given the rebuke for heckling and waving his cane at Donald Trump during the president’s joint session of Congress. Ten Democrats joined Republicans to vote for the censure.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Ya know, I’ve heard people complaining that he did too much and was too loud, they didn’t do enough and none of it matters anyway. Instead we should be focused on the trump administration forcing a black man out of the room. This is the 21st century civil rights fight.

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
      112·
      3 days ago

      and I am focusing on how the rest of the entire Democratic leadership and rank and file, sat there, doing nothing, even after someone like Rev Green had the courage to stand, for right and decency, in calling out the fascist lies to his fucking face. fucking cowards. i won’t let the same of this go unspoken, which is precisely what they tried to do. you stand when called on, he did, they didn’t.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Why though? What good does that do? Focus on how awesome he is and how terrible the republicans were to him.

        • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
          81·
          3 days ago

          Democrats have no Constitutional power of majority in either house of Congress, or any of the 3 branches of US government, the only thing they can do is present themselves in opposition of the fascist disassembly of American Democracy, and there was no better opportunity to do that than at the speech on Tuesday night, and they failed miserably to show they would rise to the challenge of the moment, Reverend Green did, he placed himself in jeopardy, this is what spurs Resistance, the others wore pink and sat in their chairs, none rose to support Green. Abject useless Cowards all.

          • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
            31·
            3 days ago

            Congressman Al Green and fellow Democrats began singing the civil rights song “We Shall Overcome,” after the House voted to censure the Texas lawmaker.

            Again, what happened right in the whole situation? Al is a rock star and he got up and sang after the censure with a bunch of people. He’s awesome.

            I’m beginning to question your intentions.

            • Bob Robertson IX English
              3·
              3 days ago

              Al is a rock star

              Just making sure that you realize that he isn’t that Al Green.

                  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
                    1·
                    3 days ago

                    I don’t think you’re aware of what’s happening all around Lemmy. The poster I’m replying to may not as well. You’re just helping the trolls without realizing. In a perfect world, yes, we should be able to yell and scream at each other without it having consequences, but that’s not the case right now. I’ll give you some reasons why:

                    • People are distracted by hearing about the democrats instead of this awesome dude standing up for what’s right. We should be talking about how cool he is and what a role model he is.
                    • Being overly negative is a troll technique, whether you realize you’re doing it or not. To be clear, I don’t think you’re a troll.
                    • We are in the midst of an internal coup and dismantling of our government, do you think talking about that part and calling attention to that would help people get their attention? Instead the dude I’m speaking with is distracting from that and talking about the dems. Again, a troll technique. He may or may not be a troll.
                    • People skim, if it’s boring and repetitive, they’ll move on. The dude is repeating boring and repetitive remarks about the dems.
                    • This is why I don’t accept posts about Biden or Harris, troll baiting, boring, and repetitive.

                    Here is some light reading in case you missed it (it’s also stickied at the top):

                    https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983