Posted On: 09/15/2016 4:22:07 PM
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That St Louis Dem who sat down had this to say:
State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed
to call attention to current injustices here in this state and country,” Nasheed added. She went on to list the “current injustices”:
• The injustice of police brutality — the refusal to mandate police body cameras;
• The injustice of poverty — the underfunding of our public schools;
• The injustice of voter suppression — passing Voter ID laws;
• The injustice of not having health care — not expanding Medicaid;
• The injustice of unlivable wages — refusing to raise minimum wage and the right-to-work attack on labor;
• The injustice of unequal pay for women;
• The injustice of mass incarceration; and
• The injustice of economic disparity.
“The pledge of allegiance and the national anthem stand not just for what America is, but for what it should be. ‘Liberty and justice for all’ are not just words — they are our country’s ideals. We must commit ourselves to honoring those principles not just by speech, but also through our actions,” Nasheed also said, according to KCRG-TV. “This is why I, as a matter of conscience, chose not to stand today.”
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, acknowledged Nasheed’s right to sit during the pledge, but added that he worries about the example she is setting “particularly for our young people.” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, did not immediately offer any comment.
As KCRG noted, Nasheed was arrested in October 2014 after she and another man refused to leave an area in Ferguson,
State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed
to call attention to current injustices here in this state and country,” Nasheed added. She went on to list the “current injustices”:
• The injustice of police brutality — the refusal to mandate police body cameras;
• The injustice of poverty — the underfunding of our public schools;
• The injustice of voter suppression — passing Voter ID laws;
• The injustice of not having health care — not expanding Medicaid;
• The injustice of unlivable wages — refusing to raise minimum wage and the right-to-work attack on labor;
• The injustice of unequal pay for women;
• The injustice of mass incarceration; and
• The injustice of economic disparity.
“The pledge of allegiance and the national anthem stand not just for what America is, but for what it should be. ‘Liberty and justice for all’ are not just words — they are our country’s ideals. We must commit ourselves to honoring those principles not just by speech, but also through our actions,” Nasheed also said, according to KCRG-TV. “This is why I, as a matter of conscience, chose not to stand today.”
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, acknowledged Nasheed’s right to sit during the pledge, but added that he worries about the example she is setting “particularly for our young people.” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, did not immediately offer any comment.
As KCRG noted, Nasheed was arrested in October 2014 after she and another man refused to leave an area in Ferguson,
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