Jasmine Crockett Is Clear: White American Men Aren’t Oppressed

Overview: When an anti-DEI bill came up for discussion, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) pushed back hard, decrying the notion that white men are oppressed as the bill claimed. U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett walks the floor after Day Four of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 22, 2024 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: Itoro N. Umontuen/The Atlanta Voice)Rep. Jasmine Crockett is known for dropping truth bombs on the floor of the House of Representatives. Unafraid to speak truth to power, Crockett is especially on target when her colleagues show ignorance of Black history, or start talking about how white men are oh-so-oppressed in America.So on Wednesday, when her Republican colleagues held a hearing on a GOP-sponsored bill that would dismantle workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs — to, you know, stop the white-man oppression — it was bombs away for Crockett, a two-term Texas Democrat.“There has been no oppression for the white man in this country,” she declared in a fiery, nearly two-minute speech. “You tell me which white men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them was dragged across an ocean and told they were going to work, have their...