This is really amazing, for lack of a stronger word. It was people speaking Spanish and Portuguese who first introduced enslaved Africans to the New World, and people speaking English who liberated them, and now we are told that English is racist, and Spanish is not.
True, and this continued for decades later, look at the movie Amistad (the name of the slave ship in the movie "La Amistad", is ironically Spanish for friendship) about the real life case before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1830s. Pretty clear what side the spanish-speaking Cubans were on and the English speaking Americans were on. What's more, England abolished slavery in the 1830s, while it continued for decades later in much of Latin America.
And if you really wanted to annoy this Congressman, the Spanish word for black people is "Negros". Now, isn't that considered racist when English speaking people use that word?