Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a racist tirade against Republicans during a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, saying Black Americans “don't want to be here.”
The House Oversight Committee held a full markup hearing to consider the bill, including the Republican-led bill. HR8706also known as DEI deconstruction. During the hearing, Crockett argued that Republicans misused words like “oppression” and that they didn't understand the meaning of the word because they were white. (Related: Biden-Harris Health Department spent tens of millions of dollars annually on DEI)
“Because words like oppression can be misused. There has never been oppression of white people in this country. Tell me which white men were dragged from their homes. Do you know which of them were dragged out to sea?” He says he was dragged all the way across and told, “You're going to go and work.'' We're going to steal your wife. We're going to rape your wives. 'That didn't happen. It’s oppression,” Crockett said.
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“We did not ask to come here. We are not like the immigrants you always face. We did not run away from our homes. We were stolen.” added Crockett. “So we're going to sit here and be mad at you for trying to sit here and act like white people on this side of the aisle are telling us people of color on this side. , and don't let it get away from you. All of you are being oppressed. It's all of you who are being harmed.”
In June, Republican Texas Congressman Michael Cloud and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance announced that they would dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within government agencies, and that they would proposed a bill that would prohibit “mandatory training”. According to Go to press release. In addition to banning federal grants from funding diversity initiatives, another provision of the bill would “prohibit accrediting agencies from requiring DEI from schools and It also seeks to prohibit national securities associations, such as the United States Securities Association, from imposing diversity requirements on companies. board. ”
Mr. Crockett has previously used racial issues as a talking point in committee hearings, and in September he blasted the testimony of Republican witnesses, calling out “qualified black people'' like Vice President Kamala Harris. She claimed that she was afraid to listen to the opinions of women.
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