REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY CLAIMS AMERICA "LIBERATED THE SLAVES" DURING CPAC SPEECH

[Judi Lynn]

by Keka Araújo
February 28, 2021

A Republican senator claimed that the United States “liberated slaves” during a speech that touched on systemic racism in Orlando on Friday.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) made the shocking claim as he addressed his fellow conservative colleagues at the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC convention, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported.

The asinine analysis came after Hawley propped himself as the leader of a new nationalistic movement. He criticized the nation’s recent “acknowledgment” of white supremacy and systemic racism in the wake of death cases by police, including George Floyd in Minnesota.

“We heard that we are systemically racist. You heard that once or twice? We heard that the real founding of the country wasn’t in 1776. It was in 1619 or whatever. We heard that America is founded in lies and evil. That’s what we’ve been told. All of that is false. All of that is a lie,” Hawley told an enthusiastic crowd who cheered on his foolish rhetoric.

Hawley’s incorrect reference was to The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project, which examined the legacy of slavery and takes its name from the year the first slave arrived on American soil.

More:
https://www.blackenterprise.com/republican-senator-josh-hawley-claims-america-liberated-the-slaves-during-cpac-speech/

[NJCher]

1. It's bad enough

That he expresses such ignorance, but that he is cheered on for it?

[mdohoney]

2. An alternative view

America has enslaved a portion of its population to poverty and debt by refusing to pay its workers a living wage.

[raccoon]

3. Josh Hawley should be severely punished for such stupity, and either ignorance

Or rewriting history. Probably the latter.

[CTyankee]

6. both Stanford and Yale should rescind their degrees...

[tanyev]

4. A significant chunk of the country declared war to 'stop the steal' of their slaves, Josh.

And no doubt Josh would have been one of their leaders.

[BlueStater]

5. We don't get credit for righting our own wrong. 🙄

This douchebag, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz keep swapping the number one spot on my list of most hated senators.

[badboy67]

7. This was the dude flashing the White Power sign at the Capitol Hill Insurrection?