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Representative Pushes Back On Jim Crow References In Committee Hearing
A member of Congress stated during a Tuesday committee hearing that slavery and Jim Crow are over. The representative, identifying as a direct descendant of a slave, pushed back against what was described as reinvigorated talk of Jim Crow. The remarks were reported by the Daily Caller.
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A representative pushed back against references to Jim Crow during a committee hearing on Tuesday. The representative said, "As someone who is a direct descendant of a slave… I can assure you, slavery is over. The remarks reflect a direct rebuttal to invocations of the Jim Crow era in the hearing.
The representative drew on personal family history to underscore the position that those periods of American history have ended.
Committee hearings regularly address issues of race, history and policy. References to Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South from the late 19th century until the 1960s, have appeared in recent congressional discussions on voting rights, education and social policy.
The representative's intervention sought to challenge the relevance of such historical analogies to current debates. No further details on the specific bill or topic under discussion were provided in initial reports.
