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Dem lawmaker Jasmine Crockett rants about ‘the white man’ during a hearing on the Dismantle DEI Act

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, became upset during a House hearing on Wednesday, which led her to rant about how white men were never oppressed in the United States.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing about the “Dismantle DEI Act”, which seeks to weaken diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Crockett responded to a Republican colleague championing the bill as a “strong response to the oppression of our rights, liberties and freedoms.”

Crockett strongly objected to the Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., using the word “oppression.”

“You consistently said over and over the word ‘oppression,’ and every time that you said it, it was almost as if I was hearing nails on a chalkboard, because it seems like you don’t understand the definition of ‘oppression,’ And I’d ask you to just refer to Google to help you out. Oppression is the prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. That is the definition of oppression,” she said. “And so, as I sit here as a black woman who practiced civil rights, let me tell you 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.’”

Crockett argued white men in the United States haven’t faced oppression because they weren’t forced off their lands and sent to a foreign country as slaves.

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