Height of hypocrisy

During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Marjorie Taylor Greene did not disappoint us by displaying her classless antics, demanding that the president call out the name of the young lady who was murdered near the University of Georgia. Greene wants to politicize this murder by attempting to label all black and brown immigrants (whether documented or undocumented) as dangerous people whom she believes, like Donald Trump said, are poisoning the blood of America. Greene wants the American people to believe that undocumented immigrants account for a lot of crime, especially murders, when the statistics demonstrate just the opposite.

Greene wanted President Biden to call out the name of Laken Riley, who was murdered allegedly by an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela. President Biden obliged Greene by mentioning the name of Ms. Riley.

On the other hand, Greene refuses to mention the names of those 20 babies (and six adults) who were murdered in Newtown, Conn., by an American citizen carrying an AR-15. Greene refuses to mention the names of the 19 children (and two adults), who were murdered in Uvalde, Texas, by an American citizen carrying an AR-15. Greene also refuses to mention the names of the 14 students (and three adults) who were murdered by an American citizen carrying an AR-15 in Parkland, Fla. Rather than mentioning the names of these children, Marjorie Taylor Greene and her fellow Republican lawmakers will do whatever is necessary to keep these dangerous weapons in the hands of people who should not have them.

AUSTIN PORTER JR.

Little Rock