House Judiciary Committee member Burgess Owens, R-Utah, reacts to Stacey Abrams comparing Georgia’s voting law to Jim Crow
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For someone who has actually
experienced Jim Crow laws, I
would like to set the record
straight on the myth of the
recently passed Georgia State
LAW and why any comparison
between this law and Jim Crow is
absolutely outrageous.
President Biden said of the
Georgia law. This is Jim Crow on
steroids.
It is disgusting and offensive
to compare the actual voter
suppression and violence of that
era that we grew up in with a
state law that only asks that
people show their. I dot D
Ainsley a house hearing on
voting rights takes impassioned
turn as congressman Burgess
Owens calls out Joe Biden for
his comparison of the voting
reforms in Georgia to Jim Crow
PETE Utah G dot. Op Congressman
Burgess Owens joins us with
more
congressman thanks for being
here.
The name of the hearing which
was established by Democrats is
Jim Crow, two thousand and twenty one.
You took issue with that
characterization.
What was the response?
Well, I took issue because,
first of all, this is an insult.
Actually, when you start looking
at what this comes down to,
keep in mind Brian, you know
the american dream getting to
the middle class depends on
having I dot d
depend on being able to travel
and getting on airplane and go
to school all those kind of
things,
and we have a party that is
really. This is true bigotry.
The soft bigotry of low
expectations, where all of a
sudden black people cannot do
what every other race or culture
does the Hispanics, the
italian german jewish.
Everybody knows how to get an
I dot d, but obviously we dont
and thats. Why we have to we
are now looking at asking for
I dot d is therefore racist.
By the way it was Jim Crow, the
Democrats who started and pushed
the Jim Crow law us
the Democrats, who did all those
nasty things that we are hearing
about, keep in mind. It was a
party that they are now pointing
to the american people
theyre the party that did all
of that at the turn of the
century,
Ainsley Lindsey Graham had an
exchange with Stacey Abe
Bramtion.
Listen to this.
Do you support voter
identification laws?
Yes,
but I would restrictive voter
identification laws that narrow
a set of permissible materials.
The answer is, yes: is a
concept
Ainsley us what your response?
The answer should be. Yes, if
you want to live the american
dream,
it is interesting and by the
way, the greatest threat for
Democrats is american people, no
matter what color thats part
of the middle class, those folks
who are no longer dependent on
government,
they have faith,
they have a vision for their
family,
they look for it because they
understand and experience the
american dream
the greatest threat
thats. Why do not want black
people to experience that they
tear down and burn down their
businesses every single year in
urban community,
trying to reach that middle
class
to say that black people cannot
get? I dot d is an insult.
We are as smart and tenacious as
desirous of the independent of
anybody else,
and if anyone who says that is
not the truth is again just pure
racist,
Brian Stacey, Abrams comes outs
and accepts its Jim Crow. Two
Lindsey Graham asks this
question. Listen is voter. I dot d
racist.
No,
what do you want to use
so far? Can you use in Georgia a
utility bill, the last four
digits of your social security
number? Obviously, a drivers
license
and they offer free. I dot d.
You have eighteen months to get a free,
I dot d,
but that is saying you dont
have an I dot d to get on a plane
to get a vaccine to get a covid
test to walk into a building. I
dont know to get your mail.
I mean its just unbelievable
that people put race into I dot d
and they got rid of voter
authentication because they
thought it was so varied. Today,
at the end of the day, we have
a party that is using everything
they can to divide us.
Everybody who understands the
Georgia law knows its fair
and anyone who is trying to
change the narrative is trying
to divide us as a people
lets not let them get away with
that for sure
PETE Congressman, you saw the
verdict yesterday in the Chauvin
trial,
the New York Post Editorial
Board had a headline and
reaction to it.
After the Chauvin trial,
politicians must turn down the
temperature,
so the verdict is in
guilty.
Do you anticipate that
politicians will turn the
temperature down like what we
saw say from Maxine waters in
the middle of the trial?
No, I dont expect it because
you have to understand what
these politicians are doing.
There is a great book, Brian
called the Naked Communist one thousand nine hundred and fifty nine
based on the facts that Marxists
love chaos
thats. What they did this Russia,
Stalin and Lenin,
trying to do what doing now.
Everything we have is crazy.
No one can make any sense of it.
At the same time, at the border
we have three thousand five hundred people came in last
night.
We have five hundred young kids,
unaccompanied kids that came in
yesterday,
thats the average. We have right
now,
its all about chaos
and our country is a place of
rule of law.
We have come here.
We feel comfortable and safe
thats what we are up against
its a very evil leftist
ideology.
Brian, do you know who loves to
see this? China,
Russia, the Europeans, taking
advantage of it? The chaos here
at home makes us take our eyes
off what is happening abroad,
a guy like you who lived through
the Jim Crow Laws. I can only
imagine how outraged you feel
when people are saying thats
what it is like in twenty twenty one.
We have come a long ways,
Brian Long Long ways.
Transcript generated on 2021-04-22.