Posted on 08/13/2019 8:08:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Tuesday said the Trump administration should declare racist beliefs a threat to U.S. national security.
During a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, Jackson Lee said that the attack in her home state of Texas last week displayed the danger of ignoring U.S. residents who foster white supremacist views.
"I believe that racism ... should be declared a national security threat," Jackson Lee said.
"Racism is a national security threat. Before, we would say, 'you have a right to your racist views. You have a right to believe that slavery was right. That segregation was right.' We live in an era where that can no longer be allowed," she continued.
Her remarks came after 22 people were killed in an El Paso Walmart last week by a shooter who police say espoused racist and white supremacist views after his capture.
Multiple Democrats have condemned the Trump administration and President Trump himself following the attack and another the week before in Gilroy, Calif., arguing that the president's rhetoric about immigrants and communities of color contributed to the shooters' motives.
Trump has called for the House and Senate to pass bills supporting "intelligent background checks" after the shootings, while adding that he is hopeful for "meaningful" action on gun violence in Congress. "I think with a lot of success that we have, I think I have a greater influence now over the Senate and over the House," he said last week. "I think we can get something really good done. I think we can have some meaningful background checks."
WHY are Democrats soooooooo crazy?????!!!!!!
So is your STUPIDITY dumba$$ Lee.
Yup , let’s roll out those red flag laws.
All leftist democrats are extreme racists who call everyone else racist.
JoMa
More wisdom from the genius who thinks Neil Armstrong planted an American flag on Mars.
You are a national security threat! Arrogant, self serving black women in politics who invite anyone to disagree with them
Black racism against whites is the national security threat.
I agree with her. So she should now never refer to herself as black. (Somehow I don’t think that’s going to work).
I’d say that the over-the-top foaming at the mouth anti-white rhetoric is a national security issue.
The democRATS drifting into communism and dictatorship. They want to get rid of freedom of speech.
Because when people are free to speak, they tell the truth. The democRATS don't like the truth about them held up to the light for all to see.
Besides, Shiela Jackson Lee is not the arbitrator of our constitutional rights. If anybody needs to put the clamps on their speech, it is she.
LOL!
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