Nevertheless, she persisted By Mark Morford

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And then came the surreal, extraordinary moment when the sneering old Republican male senator silenced his smart, uppity female colleague from reading, on the Senate floor, the words of Coretta Scott King, wife of one of the greatest civil rights leaders in American history, words that dared to call into question the integrity of the incoming, famously racist old white male Attorney General-to-be of the United States.

It was, of course, corrupt gasbag/Trump ring-licker Mitch McConnell who decided it was a good idea to shut down the indomitable Dem hero Elizabeth Warren, a woman who had the nerve to simply read aloud from King’s 1986 letter criticizing Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions’ obviously racist views and tactics, a letter that ended up blocking Sessions’ then-appointment to a federal judgeship.

Would you like to hear that again? An old white male conservative just told one of the most fearless women in the senate that she is hereby barred from speaking the words of Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. During Black History Month. And then the senate took a vote, and every other (white, male, Trump-fearing) senate Republican voted in agreement with McConnell, thus barring Warren from speaking at all for the rest of Sessions’ evaluation.

And lo, the Internet exploded. McConnell could not have chosen a more apt rallying cry for the increasingly furious, radicalized, feminist-supercharged Left than “Nevertheless, she persisted,” an instantly famous phrase rivalling Trump’s own “nasty woman” anti-Hillary slur that became the unofficial slogan for the Women’s March. (See also #ShePersisted and #LetLizSpeak).

http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/02/08/nevertheless-she-persisted/