Much like the brand emails most of us are getting from the corporate communications teams at our gyms and skincare subscriptions boxes, which express “support” during this “difficult time” and end with a quickly googled MLK quote, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would like America to know that she can quickly google quotes too, and also is here for us, whomever “us” may be.\n
Much like the brand emails most of us are getting from the corporate communications teams at our gyms and skincare subscriptions boxes, which express “support” during this “difficult time” and end with a quickly googled MLK quote, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would like America to know that she can quickly google quotes too, and also is here for us, whomever “us” may be.
To showcase those out-of-context quoting skills, at a June 2 press conference, Pelosi invoked a 1992 speech given by George H.W. Bush in the aftermath of the acquittal of five police officers who had been filmed brutally beating Rodney King. The resulting uprising had triggered five days of outrage, panic, and violence in Los Angeles.
It was also an attempt to contrast “successful” presidents, who say comforting things and don’t tear-gas peaceful protesters, with the current commander-in-chief. But invoking the name of George H.W. Bush in connection with the Rodney King beating and the Congressional Black Caucus is rewriting history in the name of bipartisanship, and obscures the fact that lawmakers and presidents have long enabled police violence, leading us to the protests currently happening across the country.
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