Democrat's 'grotesque' blanket statement about Latinos sends internet ablaze

Daily Mail ^ | 30 Apr 2025 | Jon Michael Rash

[Rummyfan]

A Democratic congressman from the South is in hot water after claiming he did not defend migrants getting deported, 'because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot.'

'First, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depots trying to get work so that they could feed their families,' Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

'I didn't say anything about it, because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot,' the Democrat continued.

The lawmaker appears to have been making his own version of a poem by a Martin Niemöller.

The work, titled 'First They Came,' talks about how officials in Nazi Germany began persecuting communists, socialists and Jews, before the eventually ending with chilling phrase 'Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.'

Johnson clearly sought to connect President Donald Trump's approach to deportation to being akin to Nazi atrocities.

'Then they came for the Hispanic looking folks wearing hats backwards with tattoos, and they deported them to El Salvador,' Johnson recited.

'I didn't say anything about that because I don't wear my hair backward, and I don't have any tattoos, and I don't look like a Latino,' he added.

[gundog]

Taco Flavored Kisses

[bray]

The cringiest version of that poem evah!

[Libloather]

'I didn't say anything about that because I don't wear my hair backward...

[ronnie raygun]

Eating their own, love it

[Robert DeLong]

I especially liked this one:

'I didn't say anything about that because I don't wear my hair backward

Is he sure about that? 🤣

[dfwgator]

We need to help those countries, so people will want to stay there.

Make Latin America Great Again!

[hanamizu]

Up there with AOC and Jazzy Crockofshit.

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Hank and AOC may be well be on the left side of the IQ Bell curve, but Jazzy Crockofshit is not. She went to the most expensive and exclusive private/parochial high school in St.L. and did her undergraduate work at Rhodes College in Memphis. Her ghetto talk/behavior is an act, not unlike Hillary’s when Hil speaks before a black audience.