March 1, 2019
Rep. Tlaib doubles down on calling a black woman working for Republicans a ‘prop’
By Thomas Lifson
The is a lot of competition for the title, but Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Jihad) is making a strong case for herself as the most disgusting member of Congress. During the public testimony by Michael Cohen, she dehumanized a black woman who was sitting behind Rep. Mark meadows, calling her a “prop†– an infamy that denies the possibility of human agency to a black woman who disagrees with her. You see, in this worldview, black people are so stupid that they can’t come to their own political conclusions, and must be pawns of white people if they disagree with her.
It looks to me as though the black chair of the committee, Elijah Cummings (D-Md) was startled and quite possible offended by this sterotype of black people:
When asked by Chairman Elijah Cummings to clarify her position, she said:
"I am not calling the gentleman, Mr. Meadows, a racist for doing so. I'm saying that in itself, it is a racist act."
Meadows responded: "There's nothing more personal to me than my relationship – my nieces and nephews are people of color. Not many people know that. You know that, Mr Chairman. And to indicate that I asked someone who is a personal friend of the Trump family, who has worked for him, who knows this particular individual (pointing to Cohen), that she's coming in to be a prop, it's racist to suggest that I asked her to come in here for that reason."
Cummings, trying to diffuse the situation, thanked Meadows and called him one of his best friends on the committee. "I know that shocks a lot of people," he added. He also said that he did not think Tlaib meant to call Meadows racist.
"I can see and feel your pain. I feel it. And I don't think Ms. Tlaib intended to cause you that, that kind of pain and that kind of frustration," Cummings said.
Tlaib then apologized "if that's what it sounded like. But I said 'someone' in general," she said.
"I'm pretty direct so if I wanted to say that, I would have," she said. "Again, I said 'someone' and again was not referring to you at all as a racist."
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