North Carolina lawmaker calls Cori Bush racist for saying Black Republican used as a 'prop'

[Harris Slut]

Cori Bush is jus a useless nigger communist rabble rouser.

WASHINGTON — Republicans criticized Rep. Cori Bush Thursday after the St.
Louis Democrat said a Black Republican was being used as a “prop.”

On Wednesday, a faction of conservative Republicans nominated Florida Rep.
Byron Donalds in their effort to prevent House Republican Leader Kevin
McCarthy from winning the speakership. Bush rebuked the hard-right
Republicans after portrayed Donalds’ nomination as historic.

The following day, North Carolina Republican Rep. Dan Bishop accused Bush,
one of two Black lawmakers representing Missouri in the House, of racism.

“I’ve spent a lot of time with Mr. Donalds, especially lately,” Bishop
said. “He ain’t no prop. And if he were a prop, he wouldn’t be sitting
where he is sitting. This is the tired, old, grotesquely racist rhetoric
that we’ve seen far too long.”

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lawmaker-calls-cori-bush-racist-for-saying-black-republican-used-as-a-
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[Harris Slut]

Cori Bush was elected by ignorant racists.

“Bassem was one of us,” said US Representative and Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA) member Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri. Speaking on
the House floor in May 2021 during Israel’s latest all-out assault on
Palestinians, Bush honored the memory of Bassem Masri, who died in
November 2018 at age thirty-one. Masri was a local resident and
Palestinian American who was on the front lines of the protests that
engulfed the ghettoized St Louis suburb of Ferguson after Michael Brown’s
murder by local police.

“As a Palestinian,” Bush went on, Masri “was ready to resist, to rebel, to
rise up with us,” to fight for “an end to the militarized police
occupations of our communities.” This speech was embedded in an official
tweet, clearly stating a position that has become axiomatic on the US
left: the fight for black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation
are interconnected.

In May 2021, the Washington Post declared that Black Lives Matter (BLM)
“changed the US debate” on Palestine, reporting on official declarations
of solidarity from BLM activists and leaders as well as a ten-day trip to
the Palestinian territories and Israel by BLM leaders. Many on the Left
know of the long history of black and Third-Worldist internationalism that
such statements from prominent black movement leaders, intellectuals, and
activists today are a part of. Black American solidarity with the
Palestinian struggle for self-determination is blossoming.

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/afro-pessimism-frank-wilderson-socialism-
flattening-racism