Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) defined on CNN why Marjorie Taylor Greene’s assault on her was racist and the racism of MAGA.
Rep. Crockett mentioned when CNN’s Jake Tapper requested her to clarify why she thought that Greene’s feedback have been racist, “I believe her particularly doing it to me. Sure, that was the intent. As has been said, you understand, ladies put on make-up, we put on lashes, we put on all kinds of issues to beautify ourselves. However MAGA has traditionally been on social media doing the issues the place they’re saying, oh she’s black with um lashes and nails and hair. And so she’s ghetto. And so to me, this was her shopping for into that rhetoric and attempting to amplify this for the MAGA crowd. And so yeah, I completely suppose that she solely did it to be racist in direction of me.”
Tapper requested, “As a result of it was in direction of you or as a result of it was eyelashes. So in that sense, it’s form of like in your view, shopping for right into a racist trope?”
Rep. Crockett responded, “It’s shopping for right into a racist trope. However the actuality is that ladies of all colours put on lashes, proper?”
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s racism, “MAGA has traditionally been on social media saying, oh, she’s black with lashes and nails and hair, and so she’s ghetto. And so to me this was her shopping for into that rhetoric and attempting to amplify this for the MAGA crowd.” pic.twitter.com/RT6wPPrxSx
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) Could 19, 2024
I like the way in which Jake Tapper handed these questions. Tapper is just not black or a girl, so he doesn’t know what racism towards black ladies is like. He mentioned from the start of the interview that he needed to grasp her perspective.
The important thing level that Rep. Crockett raised was one thing that’s infrequently mentioned on cable information, and that’s the racism that the beating coronary heart of MAGA. Trump’s MAGA motion runs on racism. It has achieved so for the reason that day the ex-president got here down that escalator in Trump Tower and gave a speech the place he known as Mexicans murderers and rapists.
MAGA is constructed on racism, and Marjorie Taylor Greene was taking part in into that racism, and extra Democrats have to observe the lead of Rep. Crockett and name it out within the media once they get the prospect to take action.
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