Texas Rep. Al Green waves 'Black People Aren't Apes!' sign, gets booted from SOTU
U.S. Rep. Al Green was booted from President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night after waving a sign reading, "Black People Aren't Apes!" as the president made his entrance down the aisle.
The Houston Democrat stood near the front of the chamber holding the sign above his head as Trump greeted lawmakers and shook hands. Gasps and boos quickly spread across the room as members on both sides reacted to the sudden disruption.
Fellow Texan Troy Nehls appeared to exchange heated words with Green before throwing his hands up and returning to his seat. Within moments, the sergeant-at-arms moved in.
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... holding a sign is a "sudden disruption?" Ffs...
Remind me, were MTG or Bobert booted from the SOTU when they literally yelled at Biden?
Or the asshat who yelled "you lie" at Obama.
That dipshit, Joe Wilson, is still in the House of Representatives. He was pissed because Obama said illegal immigrants wouldn't benefit from the ACA.
His yelling at Obama was making political hay; scaremongering that "undeserving" people might get healthcare in the richest country in the history of the world.
That asshat is a SCOTUS "justice" and it was in response to Obama essentially saying "Citizens United was an awful ruling that will (do everything we've now seen it do, handing even more political influence to corporations)"
So, no, Mr.Asshat "Justice," he did not in fact lie.
Rep from SC, not SCOTUS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson
Ahhh, I mixed that up with Alito saying "not true."
https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2010/01/justice-alito-mouths-not-true-024608
Dems are held to decorum, the right isn’t.
Look at this picture:
Caption:
It's like those civil rights pictures of people yelling at black people sitting in a cafe.
I hadn't heard of her before, but she certainly is a wretched little cretin.
I guess he's no longer "one of the good ones."
He looks like a badass
Gasps that our president is a racist, right?
To the conservatives, having someone accuse you of racism is more offensive than actual racism.
Republicans are more scandalized that someone called the president out for doing something incredibly racist than they are that the president did something incredibly racist.
Also, they have no room to talk about decorum...
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He's wrong though. We're all apes, regardless of race.
We’re all boney, ray-finned fish.
I for one identify as a hagfish
Came here to say this. I get what he's trying to say, but we are all definitely apes. And that's pretty cool - apes are awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae:
Ah, just like the vicious gaggle of dinosaurs who laid some dookie by the pond while intimidating any ape that approaches.
The least trustworthy dinosaurs are those found around water. Tasty though
Most apes are awesome. I can think of a few I wouldn't miss.
Yes. Unfortunately, racists deny that little technicality and think they're the superior other. So their usage of "apes" is offensive in this context.
This feels like a "read the room" kind of comment.
All humans are biologically considered animals, and there are many times when I feel that viewing human behavior through that lens genuinely encourages compassion and understanding, and yet: there is a long history of people being called "animals" as a dehumanizing measure in order to justify doing the same horrible things to them that humans routinely do to non-human animals. This is particularly true for historically marginalized groups.
Likewise, there is a long, racist history of white people calling Black people "apes" or "monkeys" to justify racist systems and treat Black people the way they view monkeys and non-human apes, as resembling humans but not fully human.
This representative is specifically responding to a video shared by Trump, who has a long history of racist behavior, in which the Obamas were depicted as distinctly non-human apes (I cannot recall the specific ape and cannot readily look it up. Gorillas, I think?), echoing that racist trope.
When someone responds to Trump trafficking in racist tropes with "Black people aren't apes," they are not getting into the nitty gritty of taxonomical clades, they're countering that trope. "Well, actually"-ing about humans technically being apes is undercutting the focus on countering Trump's racism. Time and place.
It wasn't meant as a serious statement, more so like another commenter put it, we're not not apes.
I know what he meant, and it's why I specifically mentioned that it's not a question of race.
Yeah, but it feels weird for the pro science party to be doing this...
Monki~
So let's govern like they govern on the discovery channel
Ackschually, that’s a common misconception. Humans and apes merely share a common ancestor
Edit: sure is reddit in here
Humans are apes, specifically members of the great ape family, Hominidae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
Like, going actually we’re all apes! In response to this is missing the point. But we’re not not apes.
Can't evolve out of a clade and all that jazz
Exactly, you can’t evolve out of a clade, and Trump is also a giant racist for calling black people apes. It doesn’t have to be just one!
Oh absolutely. It's definitely both
The point of my statement was to miss the point, because I know what he meant.
Obviously when we talk about apes, we're not thinking of humans, we're thinking of chimps and gorillas. But like you said, we're not not apes.
It was a tongue-in-cheek pedantic statement.
An ape-like ancestor
bro you don't get to say that when you're part of the problem, save the Meta analysis for your mama and speak like a normal person here
Maybe adhere to your own advice before you shit out your neckhole again
Every single Democrat should have done something to get kicked out
I had to laugh at watching little Mikey Johnson pretending to be wringing his hands over Democrats boycotting the SOTU (oh, the CIVILITY!), and he just cannot fucking help himself because he knows who he is doing this little performance for, and it's not normal Americans:
He says:
These little weasels simply refuse to get the name of the party right. They do it all the time, and the Murc's Law media never calls them on it. They quote little Mikey and don't even put the sic in there as they should.
So the guy is pretending to be claiming that the SOTU is all about coming together, let's have some civility here, etc., and even in the process of doing that, he does the little Republicunt insult that all of them do, constantly.
Civility. He can kiss my red rosy.
We all share DNA with monkeys…
And bananas