Mark Meadows: Republican claims ‘there is not a racial bone’ in his body after ‘birther’ comments unearthed
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Mark Meadows: Republican claims ‘there is not a racial bone’ in his body after ‘birther’ comments unearthed
Republican representative Mark Meadows defended himself from allegations of racism this week, one day after his testy argument over race erupted during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing for former Trump campaign fixer Michael Cohen .
The day after Mr Meadows was accused of committing a “racist act” during Cohen’s testimony, an unearthed video from 2012 features the North Carolina Republican saying he wanted then-President Barack Obama to go back “home to Kenya.”
“Anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body,” Mr Meadows told CNN, in defence of the documented racist remarks.“It was early on in a primary and certainly didn’t indicate any personal malice that I would have toward any president.”
In the resurfaced video, Mr Meadows is seen speaking to a crowd while campaigning for his congressional seat. He told his supporters he wanted to “take back our country.”
“What we’re going to do is take back our country; 2012 is the time that we’re going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is,” Mr Meadows said in the video.
President Donald Trump was one of the most vocal and prominent proponents of the “ birther movement,” which falsely accused Mr Obama, a natural born citizen from Hawaii, is not an an American citizen.
The video was widely-circulated on social media after Mr Meadows’ heated exchange with Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib during Cohen’s bombshell congressional testimony.
In the hearing, Mr Meadows argued the president is not a racist since he has an African-American woman, Lynne Patton, a high-ranking official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, supporting and working in his administration.
Ms Tlaib said the GOP lawmaker’s use of Ms Patton, a woman of colour, as proof— or prop—that the president is not racist “is alone racist in itself.”
“Just because someone has a person of colour, a black person working for them does not mean that they aren’t racist,” Ms Tlaib said at the hearing. “And it is insensitive [...] the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee, is alone racist in itself.”
The Michigan Democrat’s comments struck a nerve with Mr Meadows, who had asked her statement be stricken from the record.
“To indicate that I asked someone who is a personal friend of the Trump family, who has worked for him, who has worked for this particulate individual … that’s she’s coming in to be a prop, it’s racist to suggest that I asked her to come in for that reason,” Mr Meadows said.
It should be noted that having friends or family members who identify as a person of colour does not prevent anyone from being racist or committing racist acts.
Mark Meadows: Republican claims ‘there is not a racial bone’ in his body after ‘birther’ comments unearthed
Republican representative Mark Meadows defended himself from allegations of racism this week, one day after his testy argument over race erupted during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing for former Trump campaign fixer Michael Cohen .
The day after Mr Meadows was accused of committing a “racist act” during Cohen’s testimony, an unearthed video from 2012 features the North Carolina Republican saying he wanted then-President Barack Obama to go back “home to Kenya.”
“Anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body,” Mr Meadows told CNN, in defence of the documented racist remarks.“It was early on in a primary and certainly didn’t indicate any personal malice that I would have toward any president.”
In the resurfaced video, Mr Meadows is seen speaking to a crowd while campaigning for his congressional seat. He told his supporters he wanted to “take back our country.”
“What we’re going to do is take back our country; 2012 is the time that we’re going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is,” Mr Meadows said in the video.
President Donald Trump was one of the most vocal and prominent proponents of the “ birther movement,” which falsely accused Mr Obama, a natural born citizen from Hawaii, is not an an American citizen.
I'm SO sure he's not a racist.
It sure looks like he is using 'this personal friend of the Rump family, who has worked for him, who has worked for this particular individual' . . .as a prop to me. Why did he bring her to the hearings in the first place? What did it have to do with Cohen's testimony?
Hmmmm, seems that old Mark may be full of shit.
I seeded that campaign/birther video on this forum at the time it happened, but I had forgotten it was Mark Meadows, or didnt really know who he was at the time. He was just another yahoo.
I am not sure it proves he is a racist though. He was pandering to his racist birther audience in his congressional district hoping they would vote him into congress.
So he's not a 'real' racist, he just plays one when he's campaigning.
I'm pretty sure that is a distinction without a difference.
Considering Obama is only 1/2 black it must be only a 1/2 racist comment. We all know there is no such thing as racism against whites according to the left.
Also, accusing Obama of not being born in the US has nothing to do with racism.
I am sure when the left tried to call out McCain for not being born the US (on a US overseas military base), that was racist as well right?
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Learn the difference between partisan attacks and racism.
We knew for sure that McCain wasn't born in the US (same for Ted Cruz), and we knew for sure Obama was, but only one of those "birther" battles has persisted to this day. I wonder why that is?
That all they have left and Even that is getting very weak.
There was not even a fraction of "attention" paid to the McCain "controversy" as there was to Obama's birthplace. Not a fraction of a fraction. Even though Trump is an idiot, he is still smart enough to know he can rise in right wing politics by pandering to racism. That is the entire reason he became king birther in 2011. He wanted to run for president in 2012 and he needed to create a political base.
Birtherism is racism. Obama was the first non white president and that fact drove the racists nuts. It still does. Polling in 2019 still shows the majority of republicans are birthers. Sounds like insanity to me.
Let's see THAT polling Wally.
Does anyone know what a "racist bone" is?
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I'm tired of the off topic comments. I'm locking this until I can get a moderator or Perrie to remove them
[deleted] If you're going to contend asking for a birth certificate is racist you should be prepared to prove it.
I never made that contention. It is racist though.
Move along Rmando. Shoo