Members of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus are sharing their disappointment at yesterday’s [THURS] vote in Tennessee to remove two of that state’s Black lawmakers from office.
The Democratic Tennessee representatives were expelled for taking part in a gun control protest in their House chamber.
A third Tennessee Democrat—a white woman—kept her seat by one vote.
Michigan Senator Erika Geiss [guys] says the expulsion is a callback to tactics used during the Reconstruction and Jim Crowe eras.
Geis had this to say, "Just evidence of a type of racism that is really insidious and is appearing even in the spaces where we’re supposed to be the most fair minded."
It’s possible both Tennessee lawmakers could re-join their state’s general assembly through either special appointment or running again.