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American taxpayers pay members of the House of Representatives $174,000 a year, and for that we expect them to give us something in return, something beneficial to American interests and American citizens. There is plenty for House members to work on these days, what with the war in Ukraine, Biden’s handlers’ looming Iran deal that enriches Russia even more than skyrocketing gas prices in the U.S. already have, out-of-control inflation, and more. And you can rest assured that Congress is hard at work on the issues that are of vital importance to the well-being and future of the American people: on Friday, the House passed the Crown Act, a bill prohibiting discrimination based on hair.
It’s all about (you guessed it) racism. The bill is designed to ensure that, in the words of the Associated Press, “black people who wear hairstyles like Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists” do not have to endure “bias in society, school and the workplace.” Now, if a tony restaurant opts not to hire the fellow with his green hair fashioned into spikes as a maître d’, “such discrimination is a violation of federal civil rights law.”
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-The Past), the chief sponsor of this urgently needed piece of legislation, explained that “there are folks in this society who think because your hair is kinky, it is braided, it is in knots or it is not straightened blonde and light brown, that you somehow are not worthy of access. Well, that’s discrimination.” Yeah, I guess it would be if that sort of thing really happened, but it seems as if Bonnie Watson Coleman is living in 1952, not 2022, and enough members of the House agreed with her to pass this prime example of legislative irrelevancy, 235 to 189. Fourteen Republicans voted in favor, including (you guessed it again) Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. If it passes the Senate, Old Joe Biden has (yes, you guessed it a third time) said he would sign it into law.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) injected a note of sanity in the proceedings when he said: “This is what the Democrats are focused on. Fourteen months of chaos and we’re doing a bill on hair.” But Rep. (yes, you got it once more) Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) was depressed at the Republicans’ incorrigible racism, saying their opposition to the bill was “quite disheartening,” and adding: “These members, who are mostly male and white, who have never experienced this kind of discrimination, who don’t have the ability to actually speak to it … really should leave it up to the policymakers who have done the work and who have experienced this level of discrimination.” Ilhan Omar, of course, is a highly influential and much-lauded member of the House of Representatives. It is unlikely in the extreme that she has ever faced discrimination because of her hairstyle, since no one knows what her hair looks like, anyway.
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revereridesagain says
The grievance mongering and virtue signaling on the left is so out of control that with the economy struggling to recover from two years of “WuFlu”-sponsored devastation “representatives” like that Angry Bird in the photo can self-righteously waste our time and money on this nonsense and expect to be hailed for their “social justice” efforts.
“Clown Act”. There, fixed it for ya’.
PRCS says
“since no one knows what her hair looks like, anyway”
Well, if you’ve already had breakfast: her hair.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=ilhan+omar+arrest+photo&form=ANNTH1&refig=7884ca6bc7e345d0b15fd76b0e7977fa
tim gallagher says
Talk about navel gazing and wasting time on trivialities. It seems a bit like Nero fiddling away while Rome was burning. There must be far more important issues than this crap for the politicians in any country to spend their time dealing with.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Tim.
tim gallagher says
Yes, gravenimage, some of the issues that politicians in many countries these days think are important defy belief.
gravenimage says
Yep. Tim, here’s some more ludicrous leftist claptrap recently funded by Congress here:
https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/10-absurdly-wasteful-items-tucked-democrats-35-trillion-tax-and
Kenneth J Johnson says
Don’t these representatives read the bills before they vote on them??? KEN
Keys says
Remember what Pelosi said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To
gravenimage says
Not always, Ken, as Keys notes. Often these bills are *huge* and linked with other bills, so many Congresspeople vote in blocks based on the politics of whoever proposed the bills.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Back when I was in high school, I had thought that members of Congress would read bills thoroughly and vote on them based upon their merits – and how they would affect the United States and its citizens.
I guess that I had based that assumption on what I would would have done.
Boy, was I naïve…
gravenimage says
Don’t feel bad, James–I thought just the same.
Kenneth J Johnson says
When our congressmen don’t represent us, that’s bad enlugh., but when the electorate continmuje to vote these people into office, our country is in real trouble, KEN.
commonsense says
Let’s add to the inanity from Congress the focus on making daylight savings time not just seasonal but lasting throughout the year. And, as the world becomes more chaotic and violent by the day, with the prospect of nuclear war an increasingly real possibility, my cretin of a Congresswoman, Lois Frankel (D-Palookaville) recently tweeted to remind us about the advent of Kidney Day. Useless damned fool.
somehistory says
I would very much like to “dishearten” the witch with the news that she must return to her country of birth…because she entered this one fraudulently her name is not “omar” and she is a lying mozlum terrorist.
i elmi doesn’t know how the law is supposed to work. A person sitting on the seat of making decisions is not required…and best not …to be a *victim* of whatever is being discussed.
The lawmaker is supposed to be unbiased in order to attempt fairness to all. This mozlum witch is so biased, she is unable to male an informed choice about what others need. she is a psychopath…her thoughts are “It’s all about me” and she possesses a very loud and ugly mouth.
I’m just glad I don’t have a job for anyone to do. The idiot who brought this up, should have to hire someone who has the hair that is meant to disguise a criminal of some sort and *work* with her personally.
Business owners should have the legal authority to make decisions that will benefit them and their other employees and clients/customers.
gravenimage says
With the World on Fire, You’ll Be Astonished At What the House of Representatives is Doing
……………..
I wish I *was* astonished by this stupidity.