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Rep. Jasmine Crockett blasted "mediocre white boys" in President Donald Trump's administration, saying they wouldn't be attacking DEI policies if they were "competent."
During Monday's (February 3) edition of "Laura Coates Live" on CNN, Crockett called out the "coddling" of white men while discussing the State Department hiring of Darren Beattie, who was fired from Trump's first administration after speaking at a white nationalist conference.
“He needs to go. I mean, this is very simple. We right now have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House. He is backed up by other white supremacists,” Crockett said.
Beattie is set to serve as the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department.
Crockett noted that “the people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists. Yet, for whatever reason, they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president.”
The Democratic lawmaker also called attention to Beattie's previous comments that “Competent white men must be in charge" and the "entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
“I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned,” Crockett said Monday. “I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived.”
“So, the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder,” she continued.
The Texas congresswoman said that type of mentality is behind the administration's attacks on affirmative action and funding cuts for HBCUs.
“This is why they don’t want us to have education. This is why they are trying to literally say we won’t fund the HBCUs, because they know that if they’ve already gone after affirmative action and they’re saying, you know what, don’t allow them to come in to say these [predominantly white institutions], as we call them, don’t allow them to come into these institutions,” Crockett said.
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