Arizonas two black lawmakers reprimanded for speaking out against colleagues use of racial slur

Republican lawmaker quoted a racial slur in an op-ed criticizing the leaders of the teachers strike.

REBEKAH ENTRALGO APR 26, 2018, 6:54 PM

Democratic Reps. Reginald Bolding and Geraldine Peten are the only black members of the Arizona state legislature. The two were reprimanded for speaking out against an op-ed written by a Republican colleague, a column that included a racial slur and derided black activists.

The op-ed, written by Rep. Maria Syms and published in the Arizona Republic, alleges that the two leaders of a teacher group protesting for better pay and working conditions are “political operatives.”

Syms describes the classroom of one #RedForEd leader as “exotic” because he teaches the lyrics of Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar. Syms goes on to quote a lyric from one of Lamar’s songs, which includes a racial slur for black people. The Arizona Republic op-ed has since been updated to remove the expletive.

“This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he may have introduced lyrics in the classroom written by a black entertainer,” Bolding said on the House floor. “This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he ‘takes inspiration’ from a black civil rights activist. This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he ‘admires’ a professor that taught at a historically black college for women.

https://thinkprogress.org/two-black-arizona-legislators-reprimanded-for-speaking-out-racial-slur-f710ddf5508c/

So in the Arizona legislature and it's illustrious leader..............thinks its just fine and dandy to normalize hate................

"The majority of the Republican-controlled House voted to formally rebuke both Bolding and Peten for violating House decorum."


FUCK YOU republicans, I mean really FUCK YOU