Remember the Minnesota badass better known as Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman? She used her position as House Minority Leader to call out her conservative colleagues who like to go into the back room and literally play card games when serious issues like police brutality are brought to the House floor.
Well, these stuffy card-playing white men will NOT STAND FOR THIS. They’re standing up for all the powerful oppressed white men out there by dealing the ultimate race card—calling someone racist for mentioning their race. ThinkProgress reports:
House Republican Majority Leader Joyce Peppin called Hortman’s claim “racist,” and Republicans continued to play the race card in the days that followed. The longest-tenured Republican in the House, Rep. Greg Davids, told the Rochester Post-Bulletinhe “was greatly offended by Hortman’s racist statement about white males. I believe her comments have created a very hostile working environment.” Davids even called on Hortman to resign.
On Friday, dozens of Republicans signed a letter that will be entered in the House’s official journal saying Hortman’s comments “needlessly invoked the race and gender of her colleagues, and called into question the motives of members during a lengthy floor debate.”
“We the undersigned members of the Members of the House of Representatives admonish Minority Leader Hortman for her statements,” it continues. “We implore Minority Leader Hortman to apologize for her actions and strive to repair damage she has caused to the collaborative work environment at the Minnesota House of Representatives.”
Fortunately, badassery does not hide in the face of whiney racist old white dudes. Hortman had four words for her crybaby colleagues: “I’m still not sorry.”