{"id":35729,"date":"2019-02-28T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35729"},"modified":"2019-02-28T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:02:27","slug":"rep-meadows-says-hes-no-racist-however","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35729","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Meadows says he’s no racist, however . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There goes that dadgum social media again, producing evidence that people in public life say things they ought to regret.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, bristled badly Wednesday when fellow House Oversight and Reform Committee member Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, criticized him for bringing out an African-American staffer to prove he is “not a racist.” She thought that was a “racist” thing to do.<\/p>\n

Meadows, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus wing of the GOP conference in the House, demanded that Tlaib’s comments be “stricken from the record.” Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, who is African-American, defended Meadows, calling him his “best friend.” Tlaib apologized for any incorrect inference that might have been drawn from her comments.<\/p>\n

But then . . .<\/p>\n

A video showed up. It is of Meadows campaigning for Congress in 2012. He talks about the “wrong direction” the country is headed under President Obama, the nation’s first African-American president.<\/p>\n

Then he said it is time to send Obama “home<\/em>, to Kenya or wherever it is . . . ”<\/p>\n

Birtherism, anyone? Hmm?<\/p>\n

Well, take a look at the link I am attaching to this post. The video is in there. Yep, it’s Rep. Meadows making the Kenya reference.<\/p>\n

Check it out<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m not going to call Meadows a racist. Just listen. You can make your own decision.<\/p>\n\n

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There goes that dadgum social media again, producing evidence that people in public life say things they ought to regret. U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, bristled badly Wednesday when fellow House Oversight and Reform Committee member Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, criticized him for bringing out an African-American staffer to prove he is … Continue reading Rep. Meadows says he’s no racist, however . . .<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6986,1941,2175,8427,3808,8268],"class_list":["post-35729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-freedom-caucus","tag-gop","tag-house-democrats","tag-mark-meadows","tag-racism","tag-rashida-tlaib"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35730,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35729\/revisions\/35730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}