Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is back in the headlines this week after recently losing her primary race for the U.S. Senate and announcing she will not seek re-election to her seat in the U.S. House.
During a podcast interview, Crockett is already trying to run away from another round of highly controversial and incendiary comments. This time, Crockett mocked Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s disability for the second time this year.
“When it was a tree that ended up making him part of the DEI class, just so y’all know. He is DEI. Um hm. Uh yes, because he is uniquely abled, or, actually, he ain’t abled child because, anyway, whole other issue,” Crockett shockingly said.
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Crockett faced criticism earlier this month for her comments on reparations during an appearance on REVOLT News’ “The People’s Brief.”
Crocket previously said on “The Black Lawyers Podcast” in April 2024 that she was open to exempting black Americans from paying taxes as a form of reparations.
During the REVOLT News interview, host Lynae Vanee said there was “some misinformation” about Crockett’s stance, but Crockett did not clearly restate or clarify her position.
“I think that anybody that knows me knows that I’m a fan of, you know, making sure that people understand our contributions as well as acknowledging the harm that has happened as it relates to our people,” Crockett said. “And so for me, it’s always been about what is it that we can actually get passed?”
“Because I feel like what we do is we constantly have the conversation and we’re like ‘Reparations, reparations.’ But it’s like, all right, so if we were to move forward in any way, what does that look like?” she continued. “And so, you know, I look at it like I think it takes kind of some bold, unapologetic people to move the needle.”
No American alive today was ever a slave or born into slavery in the U.S.
Crockett then shifted her focus to criticizing President Donald Trump for suggesting that those prosecuted for their involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot should be compensated, as well as for his proposal to make the tax cuts from 2017 permanent.
“We know that Donald Trump advocated for reparations for January 6ers, right?” she said, as though compensation for wrongful prosecution and payments to former slaves is the same thing. “And so it’s like, why is that not a big controversy, right? Like, I mean, that’s a bit more controversial in my mind, right?”
“So why is it that we can sit here and be okay with the fact that billionaires are going to get historic tax cuts that are permanent and we’re not talking about like really evaluating what could move the needle as it relates to how far behind we got because of our contributions basically just from slave labor and yeah,” she added.
Crockett also said she was working on “truth and reconciliation” in the House. She introduced the “United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Concurrent Resolution” in June to create a congressional commission examining the effects of alleged “systemic racism” against black Americans, along with continuing “racial inequities” that she never named.
Per the Daily Caller, just over one-third of Americans even support paying reparations to descendants of slaves. It’s not clear if there is any similar data showing support for or against paying white immigrants to the U.S. ‘reparations’ for being discriminated against when they arrived from Europe.