It appears to be like just like the GOP remains to be reeling over Texas Rep. Al Inexperienced’s demonstration in opposition to President Donald Trump. And in newest information, one Tennessee republican is catching warmth after her current remarks in regards to the 77-year-old congressman took a racial flip.
Tenn. Rep. Diana Harshbarger had loads to say about Rep. Inexperienced throughout an interview with the Christian F.A.M.E. Ministries podcast. Harshbarger’s smoke for Inexperienced got here nearly two months after he was bodily faraway from Capitol chambers for interrupting the president throughout his first congressional deal with, as The Root beforehand.
“I wished to go over there and seize a number of of ‘em,” Harshbarger stated of democrats current for Inexperienced’s demonstration. However what ought to’ve been a typical conservative jab at democrats took a flip when the Tenn. native used a time period which civil rights consultants contemplate a racial slur, in line with the Harvard Regulation and Coverage Evaluate.
“Al Inexperienced was over right here along with his cane, and I’m like ‘Gosh dang it, boy,’” she shockingly stated. But when the “boy” remark wasn’t fireplace sufficient, Harshbarger fueled her personal flames with the suggestion that Inexperienced’s cane is pretend. “He doesn’t want that cane. That cane is a prop,” she alleged. “I swear it’s not actual.”
The consultant added, “one in every of my colleagues stated, ‘Unscrew the gold half off of it, and see if there’s a gun in there.’” She continued saying, “I’m, like, ‘I don’t find out about that man. He’s simply Bizarre Al.’”
In response to the “jokes” Harshbarger made, Rep. Inexperienced got here out saying “It’s not a joke.” The Texan continued, “This isn’t one thing individuals of African ancestry— understanding our historical past— that we are able to obtain with any diploma of notion that it’s humorous. It isn’t humorous to us.”
The congressman continued throughout the information convention in Houston saying, “I’d hope that she would discover it in her coronary heart to let individuals know that she made a mistake.” He even clarified he’s not even on the lookout for an apology. “I by no means ask individuals to apologize. I ask individuals to inform the reality. The reality is these slurs are nothing to joke about.”
It appears Harshbarger listened to a minimum of one a part of Inexperienced’s response, as she stated she has no plans to apologize. The truth is, Harshbarger took to X doubling down on her “boy” remark.“The climate is warming up, so naturally, the snowflakes are beginning to soften,” she wrote earlier than including how Inexperienced “together with the remainder of the Radical Left—is blowing it out of proportion in a determined try to get consideration.” The Tenn. politician then added the cherry on high saying, “BOY oh boy, you simply can’t catch a break between the FAKE NEWS and younger males wielding canes!”
Different political leaders like Ga. Dem. Jerrold Dagen, who known as on House Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to “demand censorship” of Harshbarger. No political actions have been taken in opposition to the Tenn. consultant.