Jasmine Crockett Obliterates GOP Charlie Kirk Worship During During Hearing On SPLC
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) used a Republican led House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center to use Charlie Kirk's own words to illustrate right-wing hate.
The Jim Jordan-chaired House Judiciary Committee parroted and platformed the bogus allegations that the Trump administration has tried to hang on the Southern Poverty Law Center, but the hearing took a turn when Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) used part of her time to talk about hate and Charlie Kirk.
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Crockett talked about the white male Republicans at the hearing lecturing everyone else about racism:
I hate that we have spent this much time, you know, on SPLC and we’ve not addressed the elephant in the room, the literal elephant in the room. The vast majority of the people on that side of the aisle, and for those of you that are at home, let me tell you, when I say that side of the aisle, I’m talking about the Republicans, the ones that brought this hearing, and again, you’ve heard that this is not the first hearing, but the vast majority of them are are white men. White men are lecturing people of color because the vast majority actually any semblance of diversity comes from this side of the aisle.
You want to tell people of color who is fighting for who. People of color do not feel comfortable or welcomed within your party. That’s why you have to parade someone who has the name Dr.King attached to them so that people can be confused. Because I have been reading the comments online and people are like who is this Dr. King? because you want them to believe that somehow she espouses who Dr. King was. Yet you’ve yet to have MLK III come in here. You’ve yet to have Dr. Bernice King.
The ones that were actually raised by Dr. King, the ones that actually probably understand the teachings of Dr. King. And I I just want to be clear because I want to I want to talk to y’all about what the Dr. King had to say about racism so that y’all don’t get it twisted and don’t get it confused just because you see the name sitting in this room. Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. That was from his 1963 book, Why We Can’t Wait.
He also said in the final analysis, racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide. If one says that I am not good enough to live next door to him or to have a good decent job or to go to school with him merely because of my race, he is saying consciously or unconsciously that I do not deserve to exist. This was from his 1967 speech, The Other America. So, just to be clear, y’all don’t seem like y’all even understand what a hate organization is.
So, I went to Google to help you out. A hate group is an organized group whose beliefs, practices, and primary purpose are centered on advocating malice, hostility, or violence towards people based on their immittable race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified connections between Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and far-right extremist white supremacists.
