'Hatred in the eyes': How racist rage animated Jan. 6 riots
By FARNOUSH AMIRI
January 6, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Cori Bush is no stranger to protests. She spent years marching the streets of St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, rising to public office on the strength of her activism.
But as the Missouri Democrat looked out the window of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — only her third day as a member of Congress — she knew what was about to take place would be no peaceful protest. The Confederate flags in the crowd, and the makeshift noose and gallows erected on the Capitol grounds, spoke to a more sinister reality.
“I’ve been to hundreds of protests and have organized so many protests, I can’t count. I know what a protest is: This is not that,” Bush, who is Black, said recently in an interview with The Associated Press.
Excerpt:
Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., also reflected on his ability to blend in more easily. “I think to myself, well, if I need to, I can untuck my shirt, I can throw my jacket away. I’m a white guy,” Himes said. “There’s actually a reasonable probability that I get through this crowd, right? In retrospect, I reflected on the fact that that was not true for Ilhan Omar,” he said, referring to the Black Democrat from Minnesota.
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-how-racist-rage-animated-riots-54ccb3bb19908667afcbe2e5c8b8e5ca
( Undeniable )
= new reply since forum marked as read
