Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) known as Rep. Byron Donalds’s feedback ignorant after he urged black individuals had been higher off throughout Jim Crow.
Rep. Donalds mentioned, “Throughout Jim Crow the Black household was collectively. Throughout Jim Crow, extra Black individuals had been — not simply conservative, as a result of Black individuals at all times have at all times been conservative-minded — however extra Black individuals voted conservatively.”
Video of Jeffries:
Prime Home Dem Hakeem Jeffries blasted GOP Rep. Byron Donalds’ suggestion that Black households had been higher off in the course of the Jim Crow period than they’re underneath Biden.
“That is an outlandish, outrageous and out-of-pocket statement,” Jeffries mentioned right this moment.
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Jeffries mentioned:
It has come to my consideration {that a} so known as chief has made the factually inaccurate assertion that black of us had been higher off throughout Jim Crow. That’s an outlandish, outrageous, and out of pocket statement. We weren’t higher off when a younger boy named Emmett Until might be brutally murdered with out consequence due to Jim Crow.
We weren’t higher off. When black girls might be sexually assaulted with out consequence due to Jim Crow. We weren’t higher off when individuals might be systematically lynched with out consequence due to Jim Crow. We weren’t higher off when kids might be denied. A top quality training with out consequence due to Jim Crow.
We weren’t higher off when individuals might be denied the correct to vote with out consequence due to Jim Crow. How dare you make such an ignorant statement. You higher examine your self earlier than you wreck your self.
Donalds made these remarks whereas attempting to sway black voters in Philadelphia to help Donald Trump. Republicans are at all times attempting to painting slavery or Jim Crow as a good time for black individuals in the US.
No American is best off being disadvantaged of their rights.
The message couldn’t be extra clear. Republicans consider in an America the place white persons are in cost. Trump and his allies don’t appear to be they are going to be happy till the clock is turned all the best way again to Jim Crow.
