Charlie Rangel: GOP and civil rights foes have the same Confederate heroes
theGrio REPORT - Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said on Friday that Loretta Lynch’s nomination for the position of Attorney General has been blocked because of racial bias.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said on Friday that Loretta Lynch’s nomination for the position of Attorney General has been blocked because of racial bias.
“They come from the same communities. They fight the same liberal ways of allowing people to vote,” Rangel said in comments that compared current Republicans to “Dixiecrats” in the Civil Rights Era. “They have the same way. They have the same Confederate heroes on their wall.”
“You know if this woman was white we wouldn’t be going through this,” Rangel argued. “As a matter of fact it has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with Eric Holder and everything to do with the president.” He noted that it would take “a generation of change” before conservatives would let go of hatred for Holder and the president.
“They’ve probably mentioned Eric Holder’s name in the Judiciary Committee hearings more than they mention her name,” radio host Joe Madison agreed.
“Those people holding those picket signs with the president out there looking like Adolf Hitler,” Rangel said. “The calls they were calling with John Lewis and me outside is the same type of voices, the same type of southern accents the same states when I was marching with Doctor Martin Luther King. I mean the hatred is still there.”
Lynch’s nomination has been backed by the Senate Judiciary Committee but still has not come up for a vote.
