[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 86 (Thursday, May 19, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5178]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING MOTHER PEARL YOUNG

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Madam Speaker, I uplift Mother Pearl Young, 77, who was 
killed by a white supremacist while grocery shopping in her Buffalo 
community.
  Please look at Mother Pearl, look at the other loved ones who were 
murdered. For 25 years, Mother Pearl ran a pantry where she fed people 
in Central Park. She loved singing, dancing, and being with her family.
  It is incredibly heartbreaking, and honestly, just sick that Black 
folks in our country can't even grocery shop or go to church or march 
against police brutality without being targeted by white supremacists.
  White supremacy gets a pass in our country, and I have had enough of 
it. Prayers are not enough. We don't need new laws exactly in regard to 
white supremacy. We need the will and courage to take on white 
supremacy as the threat it is within our country. The resources are 
there, but the courage is lacking.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues, let's do more in making sure that 
we push for that courage to face, again, this threat that we have in 
our country that is incredibly deadly.

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