House and Senate Democrats kneel for an 8 minute and 46 second moment of silence for George Floyd.
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It represents solidarity with black people who inordinately affected by police brutality.
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This does as much as tearing a piece of paper and clapping sideways. Nothing.
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Maybe they should get up and pass emergency legislation- that’s what they are hired to do. They have failed for decades and that’s why the police are allowed to kill us
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This is like when cops kneel with the protesters before they started pepper spraying and throwing tear gas at them
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This is cultural appropriation, right? Not to mention completely performative and ineffectual.
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