We reported Thursday on how Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, one of three Democratic lawmakers who while on the House floor and with a bullhorn in hand helped whip up a mob of “transurrectionists” at the state capitol three days after the Nashville Christian elementary school mass shooting, was expelled by his colleagues over his actions.
Jones was allowed the opportunity to address and debate the issue with his colleagues on the House floor prior to the vote on whether or not to expel him. One exchange that has not been widely discussed, however, exemplifies not only the skewed “reporting” we’ve seen from the media on this issue but also the duplicity of Jones on the issue of race as it relates to the vote to expel him.
At one point, Republican Rep. Sabi “Doc” Kumar, an Indian–American surgeon and Sunday school teacher, reminded a defiant Jones of racially charged language that Jones had previously used on him, calling him a “brown face.” Kumar noted that it was on tape, and that it was the only time in his 53 years in America that a racial slur had ever been used on him.
Audible gasps could be heard in the room
Instead of being apologetic, Jones doubled down by essentially confirming Kumar’s point.
Watch:
Later, while being interviewed by the media, Jones – incredibly – tripled down on what he’d said earlier about Kumar:
Got that? Kumar is a “confused” man in “brown face” simply because he doesn’t think like a woke Democrat, and one who has a history of despicable behavior (including assaulting GOP leaders by throwing hot coffee on them when he was a BLM activist) when it comes to interacting with those who disagree with him:
And to make matters worse, in an epic self-awareness fail, Jones said after he was expelled that it happened because he was being “an uppity negro“:
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) said his race played a role in his expulsion from the state House on Thursday.
“I basically had a member call me an uppity Negro,” Jones, who is Black, told MSNBC’s Joy Reid after the 72-25 vote that expelled him.
Rep. Justin Pearson, also seen in video clips shouting through a bullhorn, was expelled as well. Rep. Gloria Johnson barely escaped expulsion, reportedly because she did not use the bullhorn and yell during the lawmakers’ “occupation” of what they call “the Well” of the TN House.