PoliticsTuesday 02.04.25

“I am tired of the white tears”: Rep. Crockett reacts to white supremacist getting a top job at the State Department.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Monday ripped into a white supremacist — now with the Trump administration — who complained about women and minorities getting jobs.

“I am tired of the white tears,” Crockett said. “Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned.”

Speaking to CNN’s Laura Coates, the Texas Democrat reacted to the news that former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie — who was fired in 2018 after CNN reported he spoke at a white nationalist conference — has gotten a top job at the State Department. Beattie has made a series of racist and misogynistic comments, such as last year saying, “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” Beattie also lauded a scientist who suggested Black people were less intelligent than white people, and had frequently said Black lawmakers and groups need to “learn” their place.

Crockett directly rejected that notion, saying she had to “work 10 times as hard” to get where she is today.

“The only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder,” Crockett said.

“When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene, or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison,” Crockett added.

Recount Wire

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