14 House GOP members just revealed themselves as modern segregationists
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed a bill proclaiming Juneteenth, a day celebrating the end of slavery, as a federal holiday. That bill had been unanimously passed by the Senate and passed the House 415 to 14. It was a rare moment of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill for everyone but those 14 Representatives, all Republican, who voted against it.
The 14 are a veritable who's who of the most objectionable names in Congress. They represent the cutting edge of those who want to return America to the worst parts of its past. These 14 come from a long tradition of legislators standing in the way of justice and progress. In the 1950's they would've stood in the way of integrated schools. In the 1960's they would've voted against civil rights. They are today's George Wallaces.
Pretzel logic
Among the Members of Congress who voted against Juneteenth are some recognizable names: Reps. Paul Gosar, Thomas Massie, Ralph Norman. Each of them twisted themselves into a pretzel to make their argument against recognizing the holiday - but at the core of it they were really saying something simple: they don't support Black people.
Gosar is probably the least surprising name on this list. He has a bit of a reputation for cozying up with white power activists, and his excuse, that Juneteenth is "critical race theory in action," doesn't even pretend to hide that his objections are racist in nature.
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