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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) takes a stance against a proposal from Republicans by giving what she notes as a “vocabulary lesson” to her political peers. According to TheWrap, the speech being shared across social media combats a GOP bill that would potentially fire all workers that work in offices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion” because DEI “oppresses white men.”
“As I sit here as a Black woman who practices civil rights, let me tell you that 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’ — there has been no oppression for the white man in this country,” explained the Texas representative.
The 43-year-old continued, “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 and work. We are going to steal your wives, we are going to rape your wives’ — that didn’t happen [to the white community]. That is oppression.”
She concluded her speech by directly responding to President-elect Donald Trump’s aversion to diversity. Per The Wrap, the pending POTUS plans to have the Department Of Justice take action against colleges and universities that support DEI efforts.
“The final thing that I will say: diversity works, and until you can show me data that says otherwise, I think that we need to go back to being a country that listens to experts and gets out of our feelings and recognizes again that racism is real in this country. And until we stop pretending that it’s not, we will not solve the problems that we are consistently facing. And that will bring real unity we seek when we’re looking for a more perfect union.”
Watch a clip of Rep. Jasmine Crockett speaking on Capitol Hill below.
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