NC: House Democrats condemn 'hurtful' GOP remarks about Black colleagues' abortion, education
Democrats issued a statement late Wednesday condemning “hurtful remarks” Rep. Jeff McNeely, a Republican from Iredell County, made questioning whether a Black colleague was only able to attend Harvard University because he was a track athlete and a minority.
House Democratic Leader Robert Reives said lawmakers must conduct themselves appropriately and with respect for other members.
“I feel compelled to speak out when members of our caucus are targeted with unfair, untrue or hurtful remarks — especially when said by members of the majority on the floor of the House,” Reives said in a statement.
McNeely, the House Deputy Majority Whip, made his comments during a floor debate about a bill to expand the state’s school voucher program to allow access to the state’s wealthiest families. The controversial bill was approved on a 65-45 party line vote with Republicans voting in favor of the bill and Democrats against it. The bill is now headed to the Senate for its review.
McNeely asked Rep. Abe Jones, a Wake County Democrat and former Superior Court judge, if he would have been able to attend Harvard and Harvard Law School if “you were not an athlete or a minority or any of these things, but you were a student trapped in a school that the slowest … in the wild we’ll say the slowest gazelle does not survive but yet the herd moves at that pace, so the brightest child is held back.”
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