On Friday, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas minimized the severity of the insurrection. There have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building, he expressed on the House floor, arguing that Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks were more consequential events. When Pearl Harbor occurred, that was more of an attack on democracy than the protests of January 6, he said. When 9/11 occurred, and I know it s been so long ago and a lot of people that have forgotten apparently about 9/11, 3,000 people killed, the Pentagon was hit, the two World Trade Centers were hit, thousands died.
Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona accused the Justice Department of harassing peaceful patriots across the country.
Memphis Rep. Antonio Parkinson told CNN Wednesday that some Tennessee legislators are attempting to whitewash history and remove accountability after a debate on the House floor about whether to restrict educators from teaching about systemic racism. I think the goal is actually not to teach it, Parkinson told anchor Victor Blackwell. . if you can t find a balance in it, based on this law, and you try to teach it and it s not balanced then you could lose funding to your school, to your school district based on this legislation.
Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly are pushing for the state to withhold funding to schools that teach themes like inequality, racial and sexist privilege and the critical race theory teaching that racism is deep-rooted in U.S. institutions and that white people benefit from it.
World Trade Centers Association s First Ever Virtual General Assembly Attracts More Than 1,000 Participants
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New Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Powered Matchmaking Platform Connected 160+ World Trade Centers and a Record 570+ B2B Delegates from 70 Countries
NEW YORK, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) an international trade organization connecting more than 300 World Trade Centers (WTCs) in nearly 100 countries gathered more than 1,000 participants from 70 countries at its 2021 General Assembly (GA) and Business Week from April 26-30. Celebrating The Power of Our Community, the first ever virtual GA brought together 169 Member WTCs and more than 570 B2B Delegates from their global business networks consisting of leaders from business, government, academia, media and international organizations, reflecting the WTCA s diverse global footprint. Attendees participated in three days of livestr