After two Black Democratic state lawmakers were expelled for joining anti-gun demonstrations last week, protests again engulfed the Tennessee Capitol Thursday.
Democratic State Rep. Gloria Johnson survived her expulsion vote but has since accused Republicans of racism, arguing she only remained in her position because she's White.
Tennessee Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton, however, pushed back on those claims on "Fox & Friends" Friday.
"That's a false narrative on her part," Sexton (R) said. "It's unfortunate. She's trying to put political racism in this, which there was nothing on this. They were all given due process."
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Johnson shared her thoughts on CNN Thursday after the expulsion hearings and vote.
"I think it's pretty clear I'm a sixty-year-old white woman, and they are two young Black men. I was talked down to as a woman, man-splained to. But it was completely different from the questioning that they got," Johnson said.
Sexton noted that Johnson "separated herself" from the protesters and that her attorney pointed out several instances which showed she was not an active participant.
"Actually, she separated herself from the other two and said, I didn't have the megaphone. I didn't yell and scream. I just stood there with them alongside it. And so she made her case that she…did not do what they did."
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