Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz. referred to Black people as "colored people" Thursday in floor debate over his proposed amendment to an annual defense policy bill, prompting a stern rebuke from the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Lawmakers were debating a series of GOP-backed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House aims to pass by the end of the week.
A white racist, promoting a bill to make it illegal for the military to acknowledge racism, uses a racist dog whistle. Well, actually it’s more of a racist fog horn.
But such is the world we now live in, when the racists have gone fully mask off.