Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett went on an insane rant on Wednesday, Nov. 20, claiming that white people should not be allowed to use the word “oppression.”
Rep. Crockett said that Black people “didn’t ask to be here” in a reference to slavery – while neglecting the fact that not a single person living in the U.S. right now was forcefully brought here – unless you exclude the migrants smuggled into this country by sex traffickers. Naturally, Crockett is against the sort of hardline immigration policies (which she also thinks are racist) that would prevent that.
“There has been no oppression for the white man in this country!” she exclaimed in a heated exchange about DEI policy in the United States. “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 were gonna go and work.”
The debate was around fellow Texas Rep. Michael Cloud’s “Dismantle DEI Act,” which would close all federal DEI offices and programs.
“It is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y’all are the ones being oppressed, that y’all are the ones being harmed,” Crockett continued, visibly animated. “That is not the definition of oppression.”
To find examples of white people being oppressed isn’t that difficult; Just under 400,000 slaves were brought to the U.S. from Africa, while over 1 million white Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates over the same time period. And to make a more obvious point, DEI policies that make it harder for white people to attain employment should count as “oppression.” Crockett would certainly consider affirmative action or DEI oppression it was at the expense of black people.
During another negative-IQ part of the hearing, Rep. Summer Lee attempted to attack Pete Hegseth as unqualified, and tie this to conservatives calling Ketanji Brown-Jackson was qualified. Biden literally said his criteria for a SCOTUS justice was “black” and “female,” so if anyone deserves blame for the characterization of Brown-Jackson as a “DEI hire,” it’s Biden.
“When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD,” she said – apparently unaware that Hegseth also went to Harvard, and has decades of experience.
Many were unimpressed by Crockett’s comments.
Others believed her comments were racist and divisive.
