For many residents of the diverse district represented by one expelled Black legislator, the move against him was a continuation of centuries of mistreatment.
But last week’s decision by the Tennessee House of Representatives to kick out the Black man who represents this area reinforced to her that this is still a state where White men wield the true power, a persistent“It’s always like we go two steps forward, and one step back,” said Nation, as she finishedAcross southeastern Nashville and surrounding Davidson County, the expulsion of former state representative Justin Jones , who represented this area until Republicans booted him and a...
“It’s the system, and laws we have no control over changing, so what they say goes,” Coleman said of the legislature. “I hate to say it, but I am not surprised at all.” During the Civil War, Nashville, which fell to Union army forces relatively early, became a hub for freed formerly enslaved people in the Deep South to travel to “first taste freedom,” Williams said. But Black Americans’ sense of security in Nashville was relatively short-lived.On Christmas Eve in 1865, several former Confederate soldiers formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tenn., about 70 miles south of Nashville.
“There is a direct connection, between those students of the 1960s, and what we are witnessing today,” Williams said. “There is a certain expectation of our young people, that they are supposed to behave a certain way, but when they push, we have a problem.” Thursday’s action, he said, “is even more striking because it happened in the State House.”Over the past 50 years, Nashville has rapidly expanded its tourism-driven economy into medicine, technology and finance.
“It was a bad time, and a scary time, and it had gotten better and now it seems like it’s coming to the forefront all over again,” said Apple, a retired jeweler who hopes Jones and Pearson keep fighting for gun control measures.But as he changed the battery of his 1996 Mercury Cougar, Mike Scrubbs said he supported the expulsions, saying Jones and Pearson should have to “follow the rules if they make the rules.
“This has been going on forever in the country, especially around here,” Williams said. “So there is no expectation that anything is going to get to where we are an equal society, in this state.”
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