Rep.Jasmine Crockett erupted at Republicans, calling them a "majority… White" party and accusing them of using a member of Martin Luther King Jr.’s family as a prop to shield themselves from allegations of racism while interrogating the Southern Poverty Law Center's funding of hate groups.Crockett, who is leaving office next year after a failed Senate bid, lambasted Republicans for expressing outrage at the SPLC while not addressing the "literal elephant in the room" — a reference to Martin Luther King Jr.’s more conservative niece, Alveda King.Crockett disparaged civil rights activist Alveda King as a right-wing prop while accusing Republicans of trying to trick the public into thinking a "Doctor King" was criticizing the SPLC’s work.
King later questioned whether Crockett was calling her a "bastard" of the King name."The vast majority on that side of the aisle… are White men.White men are lecturing people of color because the vast majority, actually any semblance of diversity comes from this [Democratic] side of the aisle," Crockett said.FIRST ON FOX: SPLC'S TAX-EXEMPT STATUS UNDER THREAT AFTER FIERY CAPITOL HILL HEARINGShe said people of color don’t feel welcome in the GOP and "that’s why you have to parade someone who has the name ‘Doctor King’ attached to them so people can be confused."Notably, GOP Rep.
Wesley Hunt, a fellow Black Texan, was on the committee’s dais and pointedly questioned SPLC leader Bryan Fair earlier in the day.Hunt often rebukes talk of race-based partisanship by quipping that he has been "Black my entire life."Crockett said Republicans were hypocritical in accusing the SPLC of funding hate groups, citing a debunked assertion about President Donald Trump’s comments following the 2017 White supremacist rally in Charlottesville.She noted Trump had said there were "fine people on both sides," but omitted that he later clarified he was referring to a community group opposing the removal of Gen.
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