Recently, Congressman Steve King stood on the steps of the U.S. capital and accused a group of African American farmers of being frauds and drug addicts. He called their class-action lawsuits – which showed that black farmers were denied federal loans that were given to white farmers – “slavery reparations.” And he blamed it all on President Obama, for being so “very, very urban.”
But since the election of Barack Obama as our country’s first African American President, his racism has become more blatant, more public, more specific, and very personal:
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During the 2008 election campaign;
“I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name – whatever their religion their father might have been. I’ll just say this: When you think about the option of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States — I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?”
Commenting on the aftermath of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr in his own home;
“It seems the President has an inclination to engage in these kinds of things. When he had an Irish cop and a black professor, who did he side with?”
Commenting on President Obama’s direction to Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate Arizona’s anti-immigrant law;
”But the President has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race – on the side that favors the black person.”
Steve King on black farmers: “They’re just filing a claim because they think they can get away with it.”
In the House of Representatives, the way that members formally condemn the behavior of one of their own is through censure. Censure consists of the offending member standing in the well of the House while the speaker reads a resolution rebuking them. That sounds like a fitting punishment for a U.S. Congressman who has used racist statements to attack the character of black farmers and the President. Steve King should be censured.
Janice Mowrey is a Navy veteran, a mother, and a proud liberal. She has lived in many places but most significantly Washington DC, Augusta GA, Karlsruhe Germany, Pasadena CA, and Tidewater VA. She now resides in Chicago IL, where she works to save the homes of working families facing foreclosure. Janice is an unabashed supporter of President Barack Obama. She blogs about race relations and racial justice at worldwithoutracism.org.
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