INSIDER: It’s not racism; he’s just an a-hole

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Congressman Al Green joined fellow Democrats Adam Schiff and Rashida Tlaib as lawmakers who have been censured and is suggesting that he was only punished because he is black.

The volatile Texan was formally rebuked by his colleagues last week for his disrespectful display during President Donald J Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress when he stood up and angrily brayed at the leader of the free world while waving his “pimp cane” in a shocking tantrum that got him ejected from the room.

BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) removed after heckling and disturbing Trump’s speech. pic.twitter.com/GY7FkF8612

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 5, 2025

Two days after the unbecoming stunt, ten Democrats broke ranks to vote for his censure as the rest of the caucus ridiculously sang “We Shall Overcome,” the civil rights anthem, condoning Green’s conduct.

“Congressman Al Green’s decision to protest President Trump’s words during the Joint Address on Tuesday was one of conscience, and he maintains the full support of our Caucus,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), who chairs the racially exclusionary Congressional Black Caucus, excusing his bad behavior.

Another Democrat, rising star Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA) conjured up the Jim Crow era to insinuate that GOP critics of Green are the equivalent of the KKK.

Rep Lateefah Simon Compares Reaction to Al Green’s Outburst to Racist Yelling From Jim Crow Era

“We’re going back to a 1950s America.”https://t.co/bTt2pIzpxQ pic.twitter.com/U4s9sBdupq

— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) March 6, 2025

“We’re going back to a 1950s America,” she claimed. “I want to be very clear about that. For those of us who have parents, who have aunts and uncles and communities that are still alive, who remembered what a Jim Crow America looks like tonight in the chamber, you could look easily to your right, and you could see essentially a monolithic group of folks who look just like one another.”

“I got to say, as a new member of Congress, I was shocked at what seemed like a blatant disrespect for the House, and it wasn’t coming from Rep. Green. It was coming from the men behind him on the right side who were telling him and yelling, ‘Sit down!’ I mean, it felt like I was watching something in a history class of racist yelling at an elderly black man challenging the President of the United States not to cut medical care for the sick,” Simon proclaimed.

The party’s de facto leader, Jasmine Crockett, invoked another civil rights reference to liken Green’s rebuke to “Bloody Sunday,” the infamous confrontation at Selma, Alabama, when black marchers clashed with police after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.

Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX) suggests Republicans are discriminating against Al Green because he is black. pic.twitter.com/GsPdDCMXQx

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) March 9, 2025

The man himself also predictably portrayed himself as a victim of the oppressive white system that only exists inside the heads of Democrats and other leftist travelers, appealing to the predominantly black audience of the nationally syndicated “The Breakfast Club” on Friday.

Rep Al Green says he was only removed and censured by the House because of… RACISM pic.twitter.com/jrpUwrBtDV

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 7, 2025

“There is invidious discrimination in the House of Representatives. I’m a son of the segregated South. The rights that the Constitution recognized for me, my friends and neighbors denied,” said Green. “I had to sit in the back of the bus, the balcony of the movie, drink from a colored water fountain and my relatives who committed some crimes were locked up in the bottom of the jail. I know what invidious discrimination looks like. The Klan burned a cross in my yard. I know what it smells like.”

No, there was nothing racist about the censure. Green deserves it for acting like an a**hole, and the biggest a**holes are the ones who are making race-based excuses for it, especially him.

Legend has it that another Texas Democrat of note, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, once cynically remarked of passing landmark civil rights legislation, “I’ll have them n*****s voting Democratic for the next two hundred years,” so confident was he about the gullibility of blacks and their party loyalty.

But like the thousand-year Reich, LBJ’s alleged prediction fell far short of the mark, and after the historic showing by blacks who voted for Trump in the greatest numbers in nearly half a century, the party is losing its ability to keep the demographic on the plantation.

And the Democrats’ big-time problem with losing the vote can largely be attributed to people like Green, Crocket, and the CBC, who are an embarrassment to black people with their cartoonish antics that reinforce the worst stereotypes.

Falsely blaming racism for bad behavior sets a terrible example and has ill-served the black community for decades as Democrat political pimps have allowed urban neighborhoods to be taken over by drugs and criminals while they do nothing but line their own pockets and point their fingers at whitey.

Green was censured for being an a**hole, not for his skin color.

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