It pains me to say this, but I have found the Georgia Republicans in leadership to be far more responsive under pressure in the Ahmaud Arbery case than the key Kentucky Democrats in leadership in the Breonna Taylor case.

Every single decision maker in Georgia was a Republican.

In Louisville, Kentucky where Breonna Taylor was killed, we have a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Mayor in Louisville, and a Democratic District Attorney.

And they have each done a half step above nothing, crumbs really, for Breonna Taylor and her family.

It’s infuriating.

Not a single Democrat in power right now in Kentucky would be there without the near unanimous support of Black voters.

And yet the Democratic Mayor, Governor, and DA have been pretty much all talk for months on Breonna Taylor. And they’ve hardly even talked, to be honest.

Guess who made the single strongest statement on the ludicrous no-knock warrant used to murder Breonna Taylor from a national politician?

It was RAND PAUL.

The Republican Senator from Kentucky. Not a Democrat.

He said they should be banned altogether. Nationwide.

Painful.

I’m not about to become a Republican, but I’m also not going to have Democrats slap us in the face and pretend I like it.

Democrats think they can half ass, or flat out ignore the needs and demands of Black folk, and that we will take it silently.

I refuse. They must step up.