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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,135 posts) Wed Jan 17, 2018, 03:09 PM Jan 2018

Congressional Black Caucus chairman ponders boycott, demonstration during State of the Union

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) said on Wednesday the group is pondering a potential boycott or demonstration of President Trump's State of the Union address to Congress at the end of the month.

"We will decide in that meeting and discuss how we want to respond to the president's State of the Union. We could go, we could go and walk out, we could go and hold up fists ... or we could not go, or we could hold our own State of the Union," Richmond told BuzzFeed News's "AM to DM."

"So there's a million options we could do, but I think the most important part is to let people out there know that we're still here, we're still fighting, we really don't care what he thinks about us."

Richmond told the news organization the CBC was scheduled to meet at noon on Wednesday to discuss what course of action they would take as a group.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/369349-cbc-chairman-ponders-boycott-demonstration-during-trumps-first-state-of-the

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Congressional Black Caucus chairman ponders boycott, demonstration during State of the Union (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2018 OP

If they do any of these they will receive endless threats. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1

Go --Then walk out when Dtumpf starts to speak!!!! LongTomH Jan 2018 #2

One by one -- slowly but surely. Sophia4 Jan 2018 #4

Silence and Absence JustAnotherGen Jan 2018 #3

Would it be silence and absence speaking volumes. NCTraveler Jan 2018 #7

I dunno? JustAnotherGen Jan 2018 #8

That was my thought. NCTraveler Jan 2018 #10

aside from impeachment, the only proportional & appropriate congressional response is a mass mooning 0rganism Jan 2018 #5

Who will determine who fills the seat? NCTraveler Jan 2018 #6

No one should sit and listen to... yallerdawg Jan 2018 #9

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)

1. If they do any of these they will receive endless threats.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 03:14 PM

Jan 2018

I wish someone would do a story about the thousands of physical threats made to house and senate minority members, women, etc

Or the thousands of physical threats levied at Rachel, Lawrence and others in the media.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)

2. Go --Then walk out when Dtumpf starts to speak!!!!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 03:15 PM

Jan 2018

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)

4. One by one -- slowly but surely.

Reply to LongTomH (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 03:37 PM

Jan 2018

They should not all walk out at once. They should walk out strategically - each alone and gradually empty the Democratic side of the room.

The Republicans are not cooperating or compromising with Democrats. Why should Democrats show respect for Trump? Trump is not just a Republican. He is an evil man.