{"id":2260577,"date":"2024-06-05T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hakeem-jeffries-decries-byron-donalds-outlandish-jim-crow-comments-about-black-families\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:36:01","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-decries-byron-donalds-outlandish-jim-crow-comments-about-black-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hakeem-jeffries-decries-byron-donalds-outlandish-jim-crow-comments-about-black-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries criticizes Byron Donalds for &#8220;outlandish&#8221; Jim Crow remarks on black families"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fhakeem-jeffries-decries-byron-donalds-outlandish-jim-crow-comments-about-black-families%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=2260577&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--><p>Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries from New York\u2064 passionately criticized Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida for \u200bsuggesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">black people<\/a> had a better life during the Jim\u2064 Crow era. Jeffries labeled the remarks as &#8220;outlandish&#8221; and highlighted the severe repercussions of\u2062 that period, rejecting any notion of improvement during\u200c a time characterized \u2063by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-whistleblower-accuses-smith-college-of-racially-hostile-environment-in-resignation-letter\/\" title=\"Report: Whistleblower Accuses Smith College Of \u2018Racially Hostile Environment\u2019 In Resignation Letter\">racial segregation<\/a> and injustice. Your summarized text \u200ceffectively captures Minority Leader \u200dHakeem Jeffries&#8217;\u2064 strong opposition to \u2062Rep. Byron Donalds&#8217; \u2064remarks on the Jim Crow era.\u200d Jeffries vehemently refuted the suggestion that black \u200bpeople fared better during \u200dthat \u2063period, emphasizing the harsh realities of racial segregation and \u200binjustice that characterized that time. His stance highlights the importance of recognizing historical injustices and\u2063 striving for \u2064equality.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Hakeem Jeffries\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) took to the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-of-representatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>House<\/a> floor Wednesday to condemn comments made by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/byron-donalds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Byron Donalds\">Byron Donalds<\/a> (R-FL) suggesting black people were better off during the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s an outlandish, outrageous, and out-of-pocket observation,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cWe were not better off when people could be systematically lynched without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when children could be denied a high-quality education without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when people could be denied the right to vote without consequence because of Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou better check yourself before you wreck yourself,\u201d Jeffries added in his House floor speech, a nod to Ice Cube\u2019s hit from the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The House Democratic leader\u2019s comments come in response to a speech Donalds gave during a Trump rally in Philadelphia earlier this week, during which he implied the Jim Crow era was a positive time for black people. The Jim Crow era occurred during the late 19th and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-requiring-id-to-vote-is-not-like-jim-crow\/\" title=\"No, Requiring ID To Vote Is Not Like Jim Crow\">early 20th centuries<\/a>, characterized by laws mandating racial segregation across the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, Donalds argued, the period was also marked by unity among the black population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see, during Jim Crow, the black family was together,\u201d Donalds said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/trump-black-voters-philadelphia-20240604.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/a>. \u201cDuring Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative \u2014 black people have always been conservative-minded \u2014 but more black people voted conservatively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those comments have sparked backlash among Democrats, with the Democratic National Committee highlighting Donalds\u2019s comments in an email titled: \u201cTrump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: Byron Donalds Suggests Black Americans Were Better Off Under Jim Crow.\u201d Donalds is considered a contender to be former President Donald Trump\u2019s running mate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: Jim Crow ripped apart Black families, and it\u2019s absurd to suggest it was anything but a horrific stain on our country\u2019s history,\u201d DNC senior spokesman Marcus W. Robinson said in a statement. \u201cTrump\u2019s MAGA veepstakes gets more extreme by the day \u2014 the American people have seen Trump\u2019s blatant racism for years and will never allow him or his out-of-touch MAGA allies to get anywhere near the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds pushed back on the criticism, accusing Jeffries of misconstruing his words to harm him politically because Democrats are losing support from black voters.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s campaign is lying to you once again, and they\u2019re gaslighting,\u201d Donalds said. \u201cNow they\u2019re trying to say that I said black people were doing better under Jim Crow. I never said that. They are lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said was is that you had more black families under Jim Crow, and it was the Democrat policy under H.E.W., under the welfare state, that did help to destroy the black family,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s what I said. And I also said you\u2019re seeing a reinvigoration of black families today in America, and that is a good thing. So don\u2019t listen to the lies from the Biden administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader from New York, strongly denounced Rep. Byron Donalds from Florida for his alarming remarks implying that black people fared better in the Jim Crow era. Jeffries labeled the comments &#8220;outlandish, outrageous, and out-of-pocket,&#8221; emphasizing the horrific consequences of that historical period<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2260578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24156709091207-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24156709091207-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260577","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\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}