GOP Rep: ‘Some Americans’ Think The GOP ‘Condones Racism’

UNITED STATES - APRIL 18: Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, speaks during a news conference on the use of the "queen-of-the-hill" rule for DACA legislation in the House on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) wrote in an USA Today op-ed published Sunday that “some Americans” think the Republican Party “condones racism.”

Hurd, the son of a black father and a white mother, wrote in the op-ed that “it is unfortunate that more than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the House of Representatives, a body that I have the honor of serving in, had to have a vote condemning white supremacy in response to the idiotic comments of one of our own.”

Those “idiotic comments” came from Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who wondered aloud to the New York Times in an article published earlier this month: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”

The resolution condemning white supremacy passed in response to King’s comments was approved 424-1, with Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) voting against the measure because he believed King deserved to be censured, a harsher penalty.

“As a Republican, I believe it’s unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism,” Hurd wrote. “Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality. Sadly, some people affiliated with our party have made racist comments that give legitimacy to hateful ideologies.”

Citing Martin Luther King Jr., the federal holiday honoring whom will be observed Monday, Hurd wrote: “When people start believing that the average Republican holds these [loud and unconscionable beliefs of a few], then every Republican suffers by association.”

Read the full op-ed here.

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  1. I hate to break it to you, Willy, but ….

    Like you, I’m shocked — Shocked! — to discover ….

  2. Avatar for ajm ajm says:

    Um, Rep Hurd, have you noticed the way your party has been making it harder for minorities to vote?

  3. I think the sniggers about political correctness, making it harder for minorities to vote, people getting run over with cars at rallies, screamed at, and your party supporting racists, sexists, criminals and pedophiles in all their races for office is more than a ‘perception’.

  4. I am kind of on the stupid side but I don’t think,I know the GOP condones racism.

  5. I don’t get why you would say this. Voter laws are just to make sure that only the right people vote. Voters who support Republican candidates and aren’t Americans who live in shithole neighborhoods. That’s not racist. Just patriotic. You can’t be against that, can you???

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