PA-10: State HRC, Congress member condemn Perry in joint statement
On Friday, the head of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and a U.S. representative from Philadelphia condemned U.S. Rep. Scott Perry following his denial that systemic racism exists in America.
In a joint statement, PHRC Director Chad Dion Lassiter and Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa., also addressed comments made by the Carroll Township Republican suggesting there was more to the story of George Floyd's death and the deaths of Black people at the hands of police has been sensationalized.
"Public officials have a duty to look beyond their own individual lives to the larger community they are supposed to serve," the statement read. "If you haven’t experienced a troubling police stop, haven’t had to receive ‘the talk’ about police that African American parents still have to have with their children in 2020, and never been followed around in a store because of the color of your skin, those are the types of out-of-touch comments you might make."
On Wednesday, Perry came under intense scrutiny following his comments at a 10th Congressional District forum held by the Rotary Club of York in Spring Garden Township.
"What is systemic? That means there's a system of. If there's a system, someone had to create that system," he said. "Someone is operating and nurturing the system to keep it going. I don't know who in our country is doing that."
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