Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her “dangerous and incredibly reckless” claims about his demeanor.
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00:00What concerns me about Jamal Bowman is he has a history of aggression, not just towards
00:07others but towards me.
00:08Shouting at the top of his lungs, cursing, calling me a white supremacist, which I take
00:15great offense to, that is like calling a person of color the N-word, which should never happen.
00:22Calling me a white supremacist is equal to that, and that is wrong.
00:25Majority Taylor Greene at her press conference this morning said something incredibly dangerous
00:30and incredibly reckless about me, talking about my demeanor as being aggressive and
00:36saying that she feels intimidated by me.
00:39Unfortunately, this country has a history of characterizing black men who are outspoken,
00:45who stand their ground, and who push back as being threatening or intimidating.
00:50So she's not even using a dog whistle.
00:53She's using a bullhorn to put a target on my back to the people that she refers to as
00:58MAGA people out there who might want to cause harm.
01:01This is the same reason why Mike Brown was killed.
01:04This is one of the reasons why Emmett Till was killed.
01:06And throughout history, black men have continued to be characterized as aggressive because
01:12one, because of our skin color, but two, because we happen to be outspoken and passionate about
01:17certain issues.
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