House Republicans have introduced a bill that would eliminate all federal DEI offices. Government workers would be hired on their ability instead of their skin color or gender or whether or not they represent a letter in the Alphabet Activist community.
And that set off Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett – the Democrat from Texas.
“There has been no oppression for the white man in this country,” she declared. “You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them was dragged across an ocean and told they were going to work, have their wives stolen, and have their wives raped. That didn’t happen. That is oppression.”
For the record – there are no slaves in modern-day America. Tens of thousands of white men literally fought a war to set them free. And it was white Republican men who passed the Civil Rights Act. It was white Republican men who paved the way for black women like Jasmine Crockett to win a seat in Congress.
Congresswoman Crockett is correct that she did not ask to be in America. But she is more than free to resign from Congress, pack her bags and relocate to Baghdad or Tehran or whatever Third World country she so chooses. Don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, ma’am.
The truth is that for the past two decades white men in America have been subjected to discrimination. And I’d like to think that we could agree as a nation that all discrimination is wrong.
Congressman Clay Higgins – the Republican from Louisiana – was making that point by referencing the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. And that set off Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley – the Democrat from Massachusetts.
“Please keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name out of your mouths,” Pressley said. “Your perversion of his words, and his mission, when his children have asked you to stop invoking his name and perverting his work, when he was a proud and unapologetic black man fighting for equality for black Americans and all marginalized people.”
It’s worth reminding black members of Congress that it was Martin Luther King, Jr. who told his fellow countrymen that he dreamed of a day when his children would not be judged by the color of their skin, but rather the content of their character. If Dr. King were alive today, he would be one of the fiercest opponents of DEI policies.
