Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said Tuesday that the close scrutiny of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general was in part due to a “war on whites.”
Brooks made the comments in an appearance on WBHPs “The Morning Show With Toni & Gary,” which was flagged by CNN’s KFILE. Brooks began his response to a question about Democratic opposition to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and Sessions’ support of voter ID laws, by referencing the Voting Rights Act.
The Alabama congressman argued that the VRA treated certain areas “differently” by requiring federal pre-clearance of changes to voting laws in states where there had been a history of voter suppression, until that provision was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013.
“That’s only a tool that the Democrats are using,” he said of VRA pre-clearance.
“It’s really about political power and racial division and what I’ve referred to on occasion as the ‘war on whites,’” he added. “They are trying to motivate the African-American vote to vote-bloc for Democrats by using every ‘Republican is a racist’ tool that they can envision, even if they have to lie about it.”
Listen below, via CNN:
FOX: There are no white racists in America, only victimized whites perceived by liberals and media as racists. The Colored just have too much power in this country.
“War on Whites”, eh?
I guess the specter of “War on Christmas” does lack urgency in January.
power to the people…
RIGHT ON!!!
Yo yo Mo who’s party has gerrymandered the Congressional districts to resemble So. African townships? Who’s party has disenfranchised more POC since 1965? Yo yo Mo which race is consistently under represented in both Houses, on the Supreme Court and the Executive branch?
If you’re white you must be right.
He’s race-baiting.