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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken aim at Rep. Jasmine Crockett again, this time questioning her connection to the Black American experience, per HuffPost.
During a recent appearance on "The Megyn Kelly Show," Greene suggested that Crockett doesn't understand "the Black American struggle" because of her educational background.
“She claims to be, you know, from her people. She puts on this image that she understands the Black American struggle,” Greene said. “But let’s face it, the girl went to private school, she went on to ... I don’t know what college ... and law school — she’s a complete fake. She’s as fake as her eyelashes, she’s as fake as her hair, she’s as fake as her fingernails, and she is such a massive fraud.”
Greene's comments came amid a discussion about a New York Post article that accused Crockett of “diva” behavior, which the Democratic lawmaker has slammed as “lies” and “nonsense.”
In an X post, Crockett appeared to respond to Greene's remarks without naming the Republican.
“It is funny that MAGA cultist want to challenge my blackness because of my education… Remember how they challenged Barack Obama & his roots? Remember how they claimed Kamala ‘turned’ black,” Crockett wrote. “Y’all are a joke. Walk a day in my shoes where your white supremacist friends send me hateful emails, death threats, DMs, & posts, and then you can tell me if I’m truly living the black experience in this country, UNTIL then mind your business.”
“Being Black has nothing to do with education," she added.
Greene faced backlash from other scholars and activists, including Portia Allen-Kyle of Color Of Change, who called her remarks “macroaggressions."
“She reduces the Black experience to some caricature of poverty and struggle… Greene thinks struggle is the only stamp of Blackness," she said. “When Greene fixates on a Black woman’s appearance instead of her words, she’s playing an old, racist playbook meant to demean, belittle and distract.”
“Suggesting that Crockett’s success makes her a fraud implies that being ‘real’ means being impoverished and a failure," Deepak Sarma, a humanities scholar at Case Western Reserve University, said.
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