Rep. Andre Carson: Tea Party wants blacks 'hanging on a tree'
POLITICO - Carson also said the Tea Party is stopping change in Congress, likening it to 'the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow.'...
By JAKE SHERMAN | Politico
A top lawmaker in the Congressional Black Caucus says tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African Americans hanging from trees and accuses the movement of wishing for a return to the Jim Crow era.
Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana who serves as the CBC’s chief vote counter, said at a CBC event in Miami that some in Congress would “love to see us as second-class citizens” and “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me…hanging on a tree.”
Carson also said the tea party is stopping change in Congress, likening it to “the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow.”
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