Booker: Founders Wrote ‘Bigotries’ Into the Constitution
Accused President Donald Trump of using 'rank racist rhetoric'
BY: Elizabeth Harrington Follow @LizWFB
March 7, 2019 5:00 pm
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said the Founding Fathers wrote "bigotries" into the United States Constitution.
Speaking to NPR's Morning Edition, Booker called for "creating consensus," by leveling criticism at America's founding.
"The founders were imperfect geniuses," Booker said. "They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]."
"If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coalitions," he said.
"We are a nation of conscience, and I found partners on the other side of the aisle who agree with me on these issues," Booker said. "And we can build from there."
It is unclear what "bigotries" Booker is specifically referencing. Request for comment was not immediately returned.
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