During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) blasted the filibuster, which she says is a hurdle to so-called police reform measures considered by the U.S. Congress.
Sewell called the filibuster, which has been a staple of the U.S. Senate throughout the history of the country and in its current iteration since the 1960s, “archaic.”
Alabama lone Democratic congresswoman urged her colleagues on the Senate side of Capitol Hill to end the rule, which she claimed was meant to “keep Black folks down.”
“You know, the filibuster really came about during segregation,” she said. “It was meant, in many ways, to block progressive legislation that dealt with anti-discriminatory laws. And so, this very fact that we are now upholding a procedural, archaic rule that was meant to keep Black folks down means that we have to do our part, and that’s really the senators.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly, and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.
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