Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett rambled about race for over three minutes during a Tuesday podcast, ultimately claiming her opponents would “throw [her] back in chains” if they had the chance.
Crockett, who is campaigning to become the next ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, vowed on “Inside Texas Politics” Sunday to conduct an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump if she becomes chair. On “Outlaws,” host TS Madison said she was “so afraid as a black trans woman” and asked Crockett for her opinion of the current state of the country, prompting a racially charged tirade.
“I like to say they hate you because they can’t be you. So every little hate that they spew your way, my way, it is because they know that they see how beautiful we are inside and out, and we walk in that greatness every single day,” Crockett said. “And there is nothing that they can do that will diminish us or make us feel less than, even though that’s what they want us to believe we are. So let me just say thank you for living your truth, because that really takes courage.”
“And the sad part is that it should never be courageous to be who you are — that should just be what is the norm, right? And the reason I say it’s courageous is because you know that the attacks are coming. Like you listed it off, right?” she continued. “Like, you started with the blackness that you were born into — like, that that is a situation. Being trans, right? Like, that is a situation. It’s a situation for attack in this country and it’s coming from the people that we have elected to protect us — the people that have been entrusted to protect us.”
Crockett then said she reflects on the history of racism in the U.S. whenever individuals are outraged at people who aren’t wealthy elderly white men, drawing a comparison to modern times.
“And the idea that, you know, when people get all riled up about anybody, right, that is not old, white, male and rich — anytime they get very riled up, I just think about and I wonder: what did the struggles look like back in the day? When we had not enjoyed things such as the passing of the Civil Rights Act, when we did not enjoy some of the freedoms, where we acknowledged things like Jim Crow was wrong,” she said. “And I think about the fact that when they justified not treating us as a whole person, when they justified us being somebody else’s property, when they justified, you know, separate but equal, and not allowing us to learn together, not allowing us to eat in the same places or drink out of the same facilities — when I think about those things, I think about the fact that they justified it, number one, through the Bible.”
She is so pissed off because she is black!