Representative Cori Bush calls attempts to overturn election 'white supremacy at its finest'

Representative Cori Bush of Missouri called her colleagues' attempts to overturn the election"racist" during an interview on"Let's be clear, this was a racist attempt to overturn an election," said Bush."This was more about trying to disenfranchise the voices of black, brown, and indigenous people, trying to invalidate our votes, because we turned out in large numbers for this election.

"And to tell us that our votes don't count, that they don't matter, that's another form of voter suppression," the Missouri congresswoman added."We won't stand for it, so I'm speaking up."Black voters were a driving national force that led to President-electCongresswoman Cori Bush is shown above speaking during her election-night watch party on November 3, 2020 at campaign headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.

"There is no way that we can sit back and allow that to happen and just say 'oh, but those are colleagues, you know, we shouldn't do anything. Let's just work on"Donald Trump is not the only problem," Bush added."We have to work on getting Donald Trump out, but we cannot allow his minions, we cannot allow his friends, we cannot allow his cousins to stay in place. Those that are doing his bidding have to go as well.

Her tweet linked to a petition that had been signed by more than 484,000 people as of Wednesday morning.

Someone had to say it.

The 'race card' has been tossed onto the table so many times, it doesn't ever have face left on it...

Seems like a politically motivated racist remark... anyone who agrees with her statement is also racist 😉🇺🇸

I mean.....she isn't wrong.

its not for many reasons... but primarily the fact that it didnt and won't work.

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