Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) defined on CNN why Marjorie Taylor Greene’s assault on her was once racist and the racism of MAGA.
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Rep. Crockett stated when CNN’s Jake Tapper requested her to provide an explanation for why she concept that Greene’s feedback have been racist, “I think her specifically doing it to me. Yes, that was the intent. As has been stated, you know, women wear makeup, we wear lashes, we wear all types of things to beautify ourselves. But MAGA has historically been on social media doing the things where 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 buying into that rhetoric and trying to amplify this for the MAGA crowd. And so yeah, I absolutely think that she only did it to be racist towards me.”
Tapper requested, “Because it was towards you or because it was eyelashes. So in that sense, it’s kind of like in your view, buying into a racist trope?”
Rep. Crockett answered, “It is buying into a racist trope. But the reality is that women of all colors wear lashes, right?”
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s racism, “MAGA has historically 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 buying into that rhetoric and trying to amplify this for the MAGA crowd.” percent.twitter.com/RT6wPPrxSx
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I love the way in which Jake Tapper passed the ones questions. Tapper isn’t dark or a lady, so he doesn’t know what racism towards dark girls is like. He stated from the start of the interview that he sought after to know her viewpoint.
The important thing level that Rep. Crockett raised was once one thing this is rarely mentioned on cable information, and that’s the racism that the thrashing middle of MAGA. Trump’s MAGA motion runs on racism. It has carried out so for the reason that year the ex-president got here ill that escalator in Trump Tower and gave a pronunciation the place he known as Mexicans murderers and rapists.
MAGA is constructed on racism, and Marjorie Taylor Greene was once taking part in into that racism, and extra Democrats wish to apply the supremacy of Rep. Crockett and speak to it out within the media once they get the anticipation to take action.
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Jason is the managing scribbler. He’s additionally a White Area Press Lake and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelorâs Stage in Political Science. His graduate paintings thinking about crowd coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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