Well, according to Rep. Rush, he’s just like MLK and Nelson Mandela.
Via TheDC:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush “deserves a great deal of credit” for showing “courage” by wearing a hooded sweatshirt Wednesday and getting ejected from the House floor in protest of the Trayvon Martin case.
“I think that Bobby Rush deserves a great deal of credit for the courage he had to go to the floor in a hoodie knowing that he would be told he was out of order and he quickly left the floor,” Pelosi said on Capitol Hill Thursday.