"My dad was a slave" claims KY Republican at NAACP.
You can't make this stuff up. The 'hits' just keep on coming.
Source: AtAdvocacy News
Hooooooooooooo boy. While pushing for a bill to end college diversity initiatives, Republican state Rep. Jennifer Decker told a room that far from her family owning slaves, her father — who was born in 1933 — was a slave himself! When reporters got wind of this and began prying, Decker tried to brush the questions off as "irrelevant" before eventually admitting that he had actually been born into poverty but she "probably overstated" his plight. "Was I saying that it was kidnapping and abuse the same as the slaves? No." There's a lot of shamelessness in the Republican Party, but telling a room full of Black people that your dad was a slave to justify your efforts to cut young Black youths off from opportunities you've always been afforded really takes the cake.
Source: AtAdvocacy News
Hooooooooooooo boy. While pushing for a bill to end college diversity initiatives, Republican state Rep. Jennifer Decker told a room that far from her family owning slaves, her father — who was born in 1933 — was a slave himself! When reporters got wind of this and began prying, Decker tried to brush the questions off as "irrelevant" before eventually admitting that he had actually been born into poverty but she "probably overstated" his plight. "Was I saying that it was kidnapping and abuse the same as the slaves? No." There's a lot of shamelessness in the Republican Party, but telling a room full of Black people that your dad was a slave to justify your efforts to cut young Black youths off from opportunities you've always been afforded really takes the cake.
