10/20/2017, 2:21 pm
Frederica Wilson & the great Brooklyn hat factory explosion:
Bad enough you say? But Representative Wilson discovered something even more alarming buried deep in the body of the story. At the time of the explosion there were 120 men and only 100 "girls" employed at the factory! "GIRLS"? And only 100?
Frederica Wilson paced back and forth mumbling inaudibly then stopped, exclaiming, "We all know that sweat shops back then only used little black kids and females to do the dirty work, so what's this about 120 men working beside the women? This story is fascist right wing bull crap!"
Why Progressives Love Frederica Wilson
1) Representative Wilson likes President Obama.
2) She is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
3) At a Miami town hall meeting in 2011, she told citizens to remember that the Tea Party is the real enemy and that they hold Congress hostage.
4) She opposes senseless murders.
5) MSNBC's “The Grio,” an African-American news and opinion platform, named Wilson a “The Grio 100” for 2012.
6) A Miami Herald reporter nicknamed her "The Haze Buster" for her public stance against hazing.
7) She has asked former House Speaker John Boehner to waive the rule prohibiting the wearing of hats on the floor of the House of Representatives, a rule in place since 1837.
8) Though Wilson's personal and congressional achievements are acknowledged by friends and enemies alike, she first attracted national attention by declaring George Zimmerman a racist during a 2012 CNN interview. In that interview the tearful Wilson vowed to appoint a committee tasked with studying the possibility of raising funds needed to design and erect a 47.5 ft. bronze (with gold trim) statue of Trayvon Martin - the murdered infant of Wilson's lifelong friend, Sybrina Fulton. When completed the Martin statue will replace the ancient, seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln memorial.
