On the same day that the Tennessee GOP tried to shut down discussion on a bill to suppress the teaching of race and history, audio leaked of a disturbing GOP caucus meeting.
Where Forrest once talked of the South and the North, GOP Rep. Scott Cepicky speaks of the Right and the Left in the recording, which was posted by the progressive news site“If you don't believe we’re at war for our republic, with all love and respect to you, you need a different job,” Cepicky can be heard saying on the recording. “The left wants Tennessee so bad because if they get us, the southeast falls and it’s game over for the republic.
“All I have heard from them is how this is the most racist place,” Rep. Jason Zachary can be heard complaining on the recording. “Good Lord, they are not our friends.” The recording of the meeting went online on Thursday, just as Jones, Johnson and Pearson, dubbed The Tennessee Three, became a trifecta nightmare for the GOP. Pearson had also been reinstated by his county committee in Memphis and busloads of his constituents arrived in Nashville that morning to see him sworn in.
“Do you not believe that college students are mature enough to talk about issues like race?” ” Jones began.“That's not an answer,” Jones said. “Let's try again. Do you believe that college students are mature enough to handle conversations about systemic racism and the history of oppression in America that you're trying to prohibit under this bill?
Jones added, “I think it is shameful what you’re trying to do...I don’t think that you even know what the purpose of this bill is besides to feed into this racist narrative that you've been promoting all session.” “We keep bringing up God, but God says in Isaiah 10, ‘Woe to those who pass unjust laws that hurt the poor and rob them of their rights,” Jones said. “And so stop using God to justify your bigotry. Stop using God to justify hatred and racism.”“That's the third time you have accused a member of doing something or being something on the House floor,” Sexton said. “That’s the third time. Representative Jones last chance.
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