Clarence Page: Even a majority needs to share the microphone
Sometimes, majority rules. Sometimes it’s just cruel.
Some people can’t seem to tell the difference.
That’s one lesson to be drawn from Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee whose expulsion made them unexpected heroes to almost everyone who feels they ever have been unjustly denied a voice.
The state House Republican supermajority last week expelled Jones and Pearson after they, while on the floor of the legislature, joined a protest against gun violence.
Their offense? that also made national news in Nashville last month.
