A Democrat was ejected from the House floor this morning after giving a statement on the Trayvon Martin case while wearing a hoodie.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) pulled off his suit jacket to reveal the gray hoodie, then pulled the hood over his head while decrying racial profiling of young men wearing the garment as “hoodlums.”
Rush also donned sunglasses, even though Martin was shot by George Zimmerman on Feb. 26 after 7 p.m. — after the sun had gone down.
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), who was presiding over the House, said that the attire violated the ban on hats on the floor of the chamber. The rule dates back to 1837 and has been protested by Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), known for her flamboyant toppers.
“The chair finds that the donning of a hood is not consistent with this rule,” Harper said after Rush left the floor. “Members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor.”
The hoodie speech comes less than a day after House Judiciary Committee Democrats welcomed Trayvon Martin’s parents to a standing-room-only briefing on the case.
(Photo courtesy of C-SPAN)
Is the Treyvon Martin case and NFL bounty hunters really the most important issues facing our nation today? Couldn’t Congress work on something a little more important like . . .oh I don’t know, maybe the 15+ trillion and growing every second national debt? How about $5 per gallon gas prices?
Our government is being run by completely out of touch idiots.
Yeah, it’s a fashion. But hoodies & sunglasses are based upon convenience store robbers. And baggy pants are based upon convicts not having belts in prison. If you dress like a gang member you should expect to be suspected of being a gang member. And it does not matter about skin color.
Walter Williams had a good piece on profiling.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/profiling-young-blacks-makes-sense/
That would be Bobby Rush, the only person to defeat Barack Obama in an election- in this case Democratic Party primary for a US House seat.
Useless guy should have been Gerrymandered out this past census. His 1st CD had less than 600K when you needed each Illinois district to have near 714,000. I’d accept the loss of
I was curious how Bella Abzug dealtwith the “hat ban.” I found this link. http://www.browardbeat.com/fields-the-mad-hatter/