Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) received a dressing down from Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) on Wednesday after making a speech on the House floor stating that Black Lives Matter supporters don’t support “traditional” families.
During his allotted time, Grothman stated, “I know it’s a group that doesn’t like the old-fashioned family,” when talking about the BLM movement, an apparent reference to language on a Black Lives Matters website about disrupting “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure by supporting each other as extended families.”
That brought out a sharp response from Plaskett who admonished her Republican colleague to not leave the floor until she responded to him. Continue reading.