On the heels of Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s acquittal, outgoing Rep. Jamaal Bowman issued a “Pricey White Folks” thread on X which he began by saying he didn’t know why he felt the necessity to maintain speaking to white folks.
“Pricey White Folks, I don’t know why I really feel the necessity to maintain speaking to you. I don’t know why a part of me nonetheless has hope for you and for us. A few of you’re too far gone. However perhaps sufficient of you aren’t and can be part of us in combating to finish white supremacy,” Bowman declared within the first publish of his thread.
Bowman, who decisively misplaced the Democratic main in New York’s sixteenth Congressional District earlier this yr, will quickly depart from Congress as a result of his time period ends in lower than a month.
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman speaks at a marketing campaign rally at St. Mary’s Park within the Bronx on June 22, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Steven Ferdman/GC Pictures)
“I simply wanna name out the hypocrisy and evil of all of it and simply proceed to hope. I received’t rely utterly on you as a result of I do know what’s most vital is to work with my neighborhood and different like minded allies within the battle for justice. However I suppose I’ll simply supply this,” Bowman wrote. “I’m 48 years previous and I’ve seen numerous incidents of brutal police violence and killings in my lifetime,” he declared earlier than happening to say people together with Rodney King, George Floyd, and others.
“Jordan Neely is the newest. He was sick. He was not a menace. He was subdued. Nonetheless not a menace. Daniel Penny choked him for six minutes. And killed him. All of us watched it on digital camera, and he was nonetheless acquitted,” the lawmaker asserted.
The congressman made the posts after Marine veteran Daniel Penny was discovered not responsible of criminally negligent murder within the demise of Jordan Neely.Â
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Daniel Penny returns to the courtroom after a break throughout his trial at Manhattan Prison Courtroom on Dec. 3, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
“I’ve neglected in all probability one other hundred cases of this trauma in my life. For comparability, I ask white folks, what number of occasions have you ever seen a white man killed in chilly blood on digital camera in your newsfeed? What number of occasions have you ever even heard about this?” Bowman requested.
“The reply isn’t. You by no means have. And everytime you really feel discomfort out of your whiteness, Black individuals are harmed or killed. And there’s by no means accountability or justice. That is the evil of white supremacy. It spans throughout geography and political events and sickens us all,” he declared. “I want I didn’t need to reside with all of this trauma deep in my bones. I want I might simply be free to be me. I marvel on the magnificence and greatness of my folks regardless of white supremacy. It’s extraordinary. That’s what I’ll proceed to lean on.”
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., throughout a marketing campaign cease on the Edenwald Homes housing mission within the Eastchester neighborhood of the Bronx borough of New York, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
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Bowman retweeted his “Pricey White Folks” publish, the primary a part of his multi-post thread, and commented, “Looks like I hit a nerve. White folks on X going loopy on this one. Should’ve been loads of fact in what I posted.”
“Wow. This has been so triggering for therefore lots of you. Do you notice you’re really proving my level? In case you are that triggered by this, think about how I have to really feel when Black individuals are murdered persistently and there’s no Justice. Y’all can’t deal with a tweet. Fascinating,” Bowman wrote in one other publish.
