By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 11:50:41 | Updated at 2024-11-23 21:12:58
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Democratic lawmaker Jasmine Crockett rants about ‘the white man’ during a hearing on the Dismantle DEI Act
NY Post ^ | 11/21/2024 | Alexander Hall
Posted on 11/21/2024 3:29:09 AM PST by DFG
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, became upset during a House hearing on Wednesday, which led her to rant about how white men were never oppressed in the United States.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing about the “Dismantle DEI Act”, which seeks to weaken diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Crockett responded to a Republican colleague championing the bill as a “strong response to the oppression of our rights, liberties and freedoms.”
Crockett strongly objected to the Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., using the word “oppression.”
“You consistently said over and over the word ‘oppression,’ and every time that you said it, it was almost as if I was hearing nails on a chalkboard, because it seems like you don’t understand the definition of ‘oppression,’ And I’d ask you to just refer to Google to help you out. Oppression is the prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. That is the definition of oppression,” she said. “And so, as I sit here as a black woman who practiced civil rights, let me tell you the reason that my colleagues wanted to make sure you understood the same black history that your side of the aisle wants to delete out of classrooms is because you can then misuse words like ‘oppression.’”
Crockett argued white men in the United States haven’t faced oppression because they weren’t forced off their lands and sent to a foreign country as slaves.
“There has been no oppression for the white man in this country. You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them got dragged all the way across an ocean and told that ‘You are going to go to work.
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1 posted on 11/21/2024 3:29:09 AM PST by DFG
To: DFG
I sit here as a black woman who practiced civil rights
She needs to practice harder because so far her performance is substandard. I don't think she really knows the material.
2 posted on 11/21/2024 3:36:00 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GF)
To: DFG
“You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes.”
I heard that idiot yesterday. It amazes me the level of stupidity that gets admitted to represent people in the American congress. My thought at the time was “oh, well I bet that there were a few J6 political prisoners who could fit into that subset.”
3 posted on 11/21/2024 3:36:22 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
To: DFG
I’m of mostly Irish extraction. My ancestors came here because they wanted a better life. As Irish peasants they most certainly oppressed. The same can be said for the part of my family that were German peasants. Nobody has a solitary claim on suffering lady so STHU.
CC
4 posted on 11/21/2024 3:36:51 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: DFG
> rant about how white men were never oppressed in the United States <
5 posted on 11/21/2024 3:37:07 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
To: DFG
6 posted on 11/21/2024 3:37:49 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Sirius Lee
Does this DEI hire understand that HER PEOPLE, the DEMOCRAPS, were the VERY ones who OWNED slaves, CREATED THE KKK and voted ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.
Or is she genuinely that stupid.
To: DFG
What color were the African slavers?
What about the WHITE Irish, Italian, Polish and Jewish immigrants who were indentured servants, worked as slop maids and worked as child laborers in sweat shops? The Scots-Irish who died by the thousands in the coal mines?
History is hard i guess.
8 posted on 11/21/2024 3:39:37 AM PST by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: DFG
Does Davy know about this one ???
9 posted on 11/21/2024 3:40:04 AM PST by Tennessee Nana (I Voted 4 Trump)
To: DFG
The mask drops and the deep seeded hate and revenge are revealed .
Obama and Moocheles disciples .
10 posted on 11/21/2024 3:41:15 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
To: Diogenesis
11 posted on 11/21/2024 3:41:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: DFG
Said the idiotic oppressed bxtch that’s sitting in a Congressional Hearing as a black representative from Texas.
Yeah..she’s oppressed.
12 posted on 11/21/2024 3:42:09 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: DFG
Old woman yells at clouds
13 posted on 11/21/2024 3:46:06 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
To: DFG
14 posted on 11/21/2024 3:46:26 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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