Everyone “has some kind of racist inside of them,” the Alabama lawmaker said in a debate with his Republican opponent Wednesday night.
Congressman Jerry Carl made this comment during the Republican primary debate against fellow Congressman Barry Moore. Both senators are vying to become the Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in the state's March 5 primary after Alabama's congressional maps were redrawn.
During the debate, the moderator reminded both men of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who said in an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade earlier this month that the United States “has never been a racist country.” I asked him if he agreed.
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Alabama Representative Jerry Carl is running for a new seat after the state's congressional maps were redrawn. (Reuters)
“I work a lot with ministers and I've had some very private conversations with them. We all have some kind of racists,” Mr Karl said. “Who is my mother? [after] Pearl Harbor – She couldn't stand the Japanese military. she couldn't stand them. And it was eating her up from the inside out. That's why it's there. ”
Kahl's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
“What I said was that racism exists in America and we need to do everything we can to eradicate it and unite regardless of the color of our skin,” Carl said. he said in a follow-up statement to The Hill. “The far left wants to divide us in competition with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and Barry Moore is doing that by voting to remain.” [critical race theory] In our military. ”
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“This district is being drawn along racial lines, and I disagree with that because we need to see people for who they are, regardless of the color of their skin. Barry Moore Kahl added that he likened the races to ants thrown together, but we must stand together as Americans, regardless of race, to do what's best for our country. .
In response to questions, Moore suggested that the Black Lives Matter movement and the far-left Antifa group were responsible for causing “division” in the country, The Hill reported.
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“So I think as a nation, we obviously have some issues, but what the civil rights movement and what Martin Luther King Jr. brought to our country, through that process we The way we've recovered is quite remarkable. I actually think we've been able to gain.” “We've seen very little racism in this country. Tifa has begun to divide us,” Moore said in his response.
“Race needs to be a thing of the past. Healing needs to be a thing of the future,” he added.
