Missouri's First Black Congresswoman: GOP Colleagues Called Me 'Breonna Taylor'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Democratic Rep.-elect Cori Bush made history last week by becoming Missouri’s first Black congresswoman. But on her first day of work, GOP colleagues mistakenly called her “Breonna” because she wore a face mask with Breonna Taylor’s name on it in memory of the Black woman killed by police in her own apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.

Bush has spoken about the challenges of being a woman of color on the job and tweeted Friday that “it hurts” to encounter people who appear not to know about Taylor. But, she added, “they’ll come to know her name [and] story because of my presence.”

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Bush is Breonna Taylor only in the sense that she “could be a Black woman murdered in [her] bed tonight,” she told reporters.

“This Breonna Taylor was murdered in her bed at night, and she does not have justice,” Bush said, pointing to the name on her mask.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/cori-bush-called-breonna-taylor-230924665.html

[RockRaven]

1. It charitable of her to attribute them calling her Breonna to ignorance and misunderstanding.

I think it's totally possible they were trolling/mocking.