text:  There was another unceremonious fall for yet another path-breaking black civil servant. Talking, of course, about Jamal Bowman, who famously pretended not to understand how fire alarms work. And the other woman, it was the panic button, so there seems to be some sort of, I don't know, something going on here. But he did that, of course, so that he could delay a House vote. Bowman just lost his primary, as you might have heard. According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote a teary-eyed tweet to mark the occasion, Bowman was, quote, elected as the first black congressman for New York 16.