In a hearing on Thursday, a heated exchange between Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) erupted after Sewell presented Kennedy with a poster featuring his own words.
“Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence,” per the poster, quoting a June 2024 interview Kennedy did with a wellness influencer on YouTube. “And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented ...”
In that same interview, Kennedy went on to suggest that these children should be taken and, per the quote, “re-parented” in screen-free communities — something which, as Sewell pointed out, calls back to the dark history of separating Black children from their families in the United States.
However, in Thursday’s hearing just two years later, Kennedy claimed he never said those words.
With rebuttals ranging from “you’re just makin’ stuff up,” to “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Kennedy confidently insisted that he was “not going to answer something that I didn’t say,” adding that he’d “like to hear the recording,” which, again, is right here — timestamp 1:24:55.
