Democrat lawmaker suggests she avoided expulsion from Tennessee legislature because she is White

Democrat lawmaker suggests she avoided expulsion from Tennessee legislature because she is White
Tennessee Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson survived an expulsion vote. Her colleagues Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson did not.
A Democrat lawmaker in Tennessee who survived a vote to expel her from the state legislature on Thursday attributed her survival to the color of her skin.

The motion to expel Rep. Gloria Johnson, who is White, fell just one vote short after the motion to expel her Democrat colleague Rep. Justin Jones, who is Black and Filipino, reached the necessary threshold to remove him. Another Democrat, Rep. Justin Pearson, who is also Black, was expelled in a third vote.