Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said she was hurt that only two white House representatives voted against a resolution honoring far-right activist Charlie Kirk.
“The rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color,” Crockett said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was, specifically to [people of color].”
On Friday, the House passed a resolution honoring the “life and legacy” of Kirk, a podcaster and the founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit aimed at spreading conservatism among college students. Fifty-eight Democrats voted against the resolution. The two white representatives who voted against the resolution were Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.).
Crockett said about a month before Kirk’s death, Kirk was speaking negatively about Crockett on his podcast, calling her a “circus act” who was a part of the “great replacement of white people.”
“If there was any way I was gonna honor somebody who decided that they were going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement,” Crockett said on CNN. “Yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff, especially as a civil rights attorney.”
