White men were playing cards when women of color were speaking on the House floor - then this woman called them out.
The following video, in which Minnesota House Minority Leader Melissa Hortman drops every damn mic, explains it all… who has absolutely no fucks to give about the people he is expected to serve and to help. And yet, as we keep being reminded over and over again with ever-increasing frequency since November 8, 2016, you can never go wrong by being a White man in Washington, D.C. And after all of the backlash that came as a result of their behavior, you would think that White men in government would stop behaving like assholes towards Black women and other women of color who work alongside them, or at the very least, try to not have their assholish behavior dialed all the way up to Eleven.
Maxine Waters (D- Calif.) and White House correspondent/American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan each found themselves being disrespected and spoken down to while doing their jobs, and they each had to deal with this disrespect and condescension coming from two White men for whom such behavior comes as naturally to them as breathing.
It was only just last week that I wrote a post about how Rep.
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