Voice message to Rep. Al Green (D-TX). WARNING: GRAPHIC, RACIST CONTENT.

[Miles Archer]

efore Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) began his town hall Saturday morning, he instructed his aides to play a tape. It was, he explained, a voicemail he had received earlier in the week, shortly after he had delivered a speech on the House floor to become the first member of Congress to call for President Donald Trump to be impeached.

"Hey, Al Green, I've got an impeachment for ya—it's gonna be yours," said a man's voice. "Actually we're gonna give you a short trial before we hang your n*gg*r ass."

A murmur went up in the audience of 80 or so Houston-area constituents who had packed into a church hall in the city's southwest corner. Green played another voicemail, which warned, "try it, and we'll rinse out you fucking niggers, you'll be hanging from a tree."

When it was over, Green got to his point. "Friends, I want to assure you that no amounts of threats or intimidation will stop what I have started, I promise you—we are going to continue with this," he said. "We are gonna move forward, we will not turn around."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/al-green-impeachment-town-hall

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Change R-Tx to D-Tx

[Miles Archer]

2. Not sure how the hell I did that, but it's fixed. n/t

[Lotusflower70]

3. Wow just wow

That's scary. It shows that no matter how far we have come, there is still so much work to do. There is ugliness and hatred that is deeply rooted and brought out into the light with this election.