Did you know that a group of Black congressional staff members has decided it would be a great idea to disrupt the work of the house members and senators they serve during one of the busiest times of the year, by walking off their jobs to protest the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, New York?
From an article at the Daily Beast:
“Black staffers on Capitol Hill wanted to do something in support of ongoing national and global protests against police aggression,” an organizer said, speaking on background because the event hadn\’t been announced. “Many of us felt we needed to stand with others who were taking on the issue of police abuse and do it here, where we work, even though not all of us have had that same experience, personally. Everyone I talked to has known someone who\’s been directly impacted.”
The demonstration will involve staffers interrupting their workday to attend the protest during one of Congress\’ busiest weeks of the year. Congress is currently debating a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, its annual Pentagon policy bill, and a bill to authorize the president to use military force against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
What a great idea. Guaranteed to bring us all together.
I\’m still waiting for an explanation of why the Michael Brown or Eric Garner incidents were racial in nature….and still finding that no one can give me one.
I am also wondering why, if these staffers truly feel that “Black lives matter”, they are not instead protesting the proliferation of murderous gangs in Black neighborhoods, which make productive Black citizens – like themselves – fearful of walking outside their own residences day or night.
And when have they protested the 19 Black people, on average, who are murdered every day – with a vastly disproportionate number of them young Black males killed by other young Black males?
Michael Brown was killed on August 9th. Today is December 11 – 124 days later. That comes to about 2,461 Blacks killed since then.
But those Black people apparently are not worth taking any action on…only the two that a (phony) racial case can be made of.
Ironically, the political beneficiaries of bottlenecking the end of this congressional session will be Republicans – who almost no Black citizens vote for.
Why? Becsuse whatever does not get done now, will be addressed next year, with a Republican-majority senate and an even more Republican-majority house.
Assuming most Black staffers are Democrats, presumably working for other Democrats, how does this make sense to them?
There\’s a question I would love a few of these folks to answer. But I\’m not holding my breath waiting.
