Members of Congress spar over radicalism at US History Museum: 'Is Mickey Mouse racist?'
3. Jasmine Crockett denounces hearing as 'white pride rally'
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, opened her questioning by telling the panel, "Welcome to the Republicans' white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing."
"It might be uncomfortable for some people on this committee to hear about the true history of America, and I hate that for them, but facts are facts, and it's a fact that there is a violent, exclusionary, discriminatory, sexist and racist part of American history," Crockett argued.
"So attacks on the Smithsonian or any other institution that's willing to tell the true history of America is not only an attempt to rewrite history, but it's an attempt to erase history," she said.
Citing unverified stats, Crockett also asked Hartig about the museum's workforce demographics, asking her if she only hired "non-white people," claiming that “almost 60 percent of the Smithsonian's total workforce is men and more than 50 percent is white. Ninety percent of Smithsonian employees making senior-level pay are white, and 60 percent of them are men."
Crockett then claimed that her Republican colleagues' complaints were nothing more than a "fetish that these white guys with fragile egos have with trying to feel oppressed."
She also confronted one of the witnesses at the hearing, Yale professor David Blight, asking him why most of the world was "rooting against" Argentina and for Spain in the final match of the World Cup. "Spain had the best team, maybe that's why they were rooting for them," he replied.
Crockett sarcastically laughed at his answer. "There’s also a racist history ... as it relates to Argentina," she insisted.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
