Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Burgess Owens Slams ‘Racist’ San Francisco Reparations Plan That Paints Black Americans as ‘Hopeless, Hapless’

Following the proposal of San Francisco’s reparations committee to pay longtime black residents billions of dollars in reparations, Utah’s Republican 4th District Rep. Burgess Owens slammed the conversation as “condescending,” arguing it “conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”

U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens speaks during a debate with Democrat Darlene McDonald, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in South Jordan, Utah, in their first and only meeting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The first-term Republican elected not to participate in a televised Utah Debate Commission event earlier this month. …

Jackson Lee: Biden Did ‘Right Thing’ by Owning That His Comments ‘Might Not Have Been as Funny’ as He Thought

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden did “the right thing” by owning up to the fact that his comments about black voters “might not have been as funny” as he thought they were. Jackson Lee also stated that Biden knows he can’t take any group of voters for granted, is sensitive to the needs of the African American community, and that his record will beat President Trump’s every single time.

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