{"id":1833123,"date":"2023-02-02T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833123"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:20:03","slug":"ive-been-black-for-a-long-time-wesley-hunt-torches-biden-admin-for-making-everything-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ive-been-black-for-a-long-time-wesley-hunt-torches-biden-admin-for-making-everything-about-race\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve Been Black For A Long Time\u2019: Wesley Hunt Torches Biden Admin For Making Everything About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Five-been-black-for-a-long-time-wesley-hunt-torches-biden-admin-for-making-everything-about-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-TX, made it clear that anyone who tried to make every issue into an issue along racial lines would be unable to have his patience.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt delivered his remarks during Wednesday\u2019s hearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Border security<\/a>, taking particular issue with President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for labeling Republicans as \u201cracists\u201d They objected because <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-shreds-biden-over-bidens-border-crisis-this-is-an-intentional-policy-rooted-in-an-open-borders-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open border policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast time I checked, I\u2019ve been black for a long time. I\u2019ve been a minority for a long time,\u201d Hunt tweeted along with a clip from his remarks. \u201cAm I racist for calling what\u2019s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I\u2019m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last time I checked, I\u2019ve been black for a long time. I\u2019ve been a minority for a long time. Am I racist for calling what\u2019s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I\u2019m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything. -WPH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HbTkEMw5Ks\">pic.twitter.com\/HbTkEMw5Ks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWesleyHunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepWesleyHunt\/status\/1620885287189762050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is actually not about race. This is an issue on public safety,\u201d Hunt stated that his concern about deadly fentanyl crossing the southern border was not racially motivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFentanyl doesn\u2019t care where you\u2019re from,\u201d He went on. \u201cFentanyl doesn\u2019t care about race. Fentanyl kills indiscriminately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunt then turned to address how <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/migrant-tsunami-will-worsen-due-to-title-42-rollback-former-trump-and-biden-border-patrol-chief-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Border policies<\/a> had changed since Biden had taken office \u2014 conceding first that there had been problems prior to Biden\u2019s arrival but then pointing out how much worse the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border had become under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem, he explained, was the Biden administration\u2019s penchant for using race \u201cas a scapegoat for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs somebody that wants to make sure that we do attack racist issues when they do occur, we can\u2019t be the boy who cried wolf and blame racism all the time,\u201d Hunt was added. \u201cI am here to hold this administration accountable to understand that there are issues of race that need to be addressed \u2014 and sir, this ain\u2019t one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News on Thursday featured Hunt discussing the topic more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) made it clear that he had no patience left for anyone who attempted to make every issue into a divide along racial lines. Hunt delivered his remarks during Wednesday\u2019s hearing on border security, taking particular issue with President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for labeling Republicans as \u201cracists\u201d because they objected to open &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1833126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12253,4496,3620,4212,10223,5069,5073,6865,17419],"class_list":["post-1833123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-ive","tag-admin","tag-biden","tag-black","tag-hunt","tag-race","tag-time","tag-torches","tag-wesley"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}