Roy S. Johnson: Running scared from students supporting DEI, Republicans choke on their red-meat bill [Video]

They ducked, dived, and dodged the mosaic of students waiting patiently in the hall outside Room 200 where legislators were lunching. When they were done, “They ran out the back door to avoid us,” said University of Alabama-Birmingham sophomore Sydney Testman.

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Added Atchison: “They are so afraid of students showing our voices and being heard on SB129 because they know the damage they are trying to do to this state and to students, and they are running scared from us.”

They were, quite simply, an embarrassment.

SB129 is the prime cut in the Alabama Republicans’ 2024 red-meat legislative session—and they choked on it.

They gagged on an opportunity to define and defend the unnecessary bill to voters whom it will most affect—because they cannot accurately define or defend it without resorting to empty catch-phrasey “talking points.”

I’ll give Alabama GOP chair John Wahl a …