Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) weren’t having it with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) after she criticized Hunter Biden for his “white privilege” on Wednesday.
Mace took intention on the president’s son after his shock look at a House Oversight Committee listening to the place the GOP-led committee voted to approve a decision to carry him in contempt of Congress.
“My first question is who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That’s my first question. Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege,” she stated.
“Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here.”
Crockett later remarked on Mace’s feedback, calling them a “spit in the face” to her as a Black lady.
“Especially from that side of the aisle,” stated Crockett, who famous Republicans’ “lack of diversity” and cited ousted ex-House speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) description of the GOP as trying like “the most restrictive country club in America.”
“So let me tell you something – y’all don’t know what white privilege looks like … You see, you want to talk about a two-tier justice system and this is the only time that y’all have ever referenced it when this country has a history when it comes to Black and brown folk, of having two separate sets of rules.”
Mace, in response, pointed to her work as a former rating member of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee.
“I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country. I come from a district where rich and poor is literally Black and white, Black versus white on most days,” she stated.
Ocasio-Cortez swiped again at Mace’s “very beautiful speech,” acknowledging the Republican’s work earlier than including extra about her historical past with the subcommittee.
“But I think it’s so exemplary of the point that she also oversaw the elimination of Civil Rights Subcommittee on this committee, which really kind of gives the whole game away,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
“We show up, we give speeches, we give flowery words. But at the end of the day participate in the structural erosion of the rights and representation of people that are marginalized. Women, people of color, people that just need to see their due process and civil liberties protected in this country.”
