The two Black Democrats who were ousted from the Tennessee state House say their presence there was a source of tension from the start — even before their protests on the chamber floor in the wake of a deadly mass shooting.
Shelby County Commission Chair Mickell Lowery told The"I would be honored to accept the appointment of the Shelby County Commission and to run in a special election," Pearson said Sunday."And I've already heard that people in the state Legislature and in Nashville are actually threatening our Shelby County commissioners to not reappoint me or they're going to take away funding that's in the governor's budget for projects that the mayor and others have asked for.
"And this is what folks really have to realize: the power structure in the state of Tennessee is always wielding against the minority party and people," he said. Republicans' move to oust two Black Democrats and not the white lawmaker who protested alongside them has raised accusations that race played a role.
she believes she survived the vote because she's a"60-year-old white woman and they are two young Black men."but not Pearson or Johnson, pushed back on the allegation, telling CNN on Friday that their ousting"had nothing to do with race."
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