“Political and racial tensions in Tennessee erupted into public view final week when Republicans within the state Meeting voted to expel two Black Democrats from the chamber,” NBC Information experiences.
“It was an unprecedented motion that Democrats throughout the nation — together with President Joe Biden — excoriated as racist and political.”
“However politics watchers in Tennessee and across the nation say that what occurred was nothing new for the state’s GOP lawmakers and that the method Republicans have taken to reduce illustration of Democrats — on each the federal and state ranges — has really been years within the making.”
