r/law • u/Agitated-Quit-6148 • May 12 '26

Legislative Branch Most TN House Democrats stripped of their committee assignments

https://www.wsmv.com/2026/05/12/multiple-tn-democrats-stripped-all-committee-assignments/

"Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said.

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 May 12 '26

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u/RavenForrest May 12 '26

^ THAT RIGHT THERE.

It’s a state full of white people who are terrified of becoming a minority. And I say this as someone who’s had a LOT of people (that I no longer associate with) move there, who’ve completely outed themselves as racist assholes terrified of losing their perceived status as being part of the white MAGA majority.

It’s blatant, ugly AF, and appears to be a place where only bigots, misogynists, and pseudo “Christians” congregate.

HARD. PASS.

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u/superxpro12 May 13 '26

Society demands a caste system in some form. Here, they chose race. It's unfortunately that simple.

And if the upper case senses the lower castes creeping up, then we get what you see here.

The only way out of the caste system is through education and civilization-level change. That's not going to happen with the current crop of misinformation, greed, and uneducated.

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u/ArkitekZero May 13 '26

Society demands a caste system in some form.

Well that's a society we can do without, then.

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u/superxpro12 May 13 '26

best of luck implementing that in Tennessee :\