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Jasmine Crockett: “You don't want them to understand why the 14th Amendment…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

Jasmine Crockett Goes Nuclear On Republicans: GOP 'Wants To Drag Us Back To The Jim Crow Era'

Published May 21, 2026 | Video Starts at 05:31

Because you are afraid that it's going to hurt people's feelings to know that their ancestors were were so savage that they would enslave black folk. You don't want them to understand why the 14th Amendment mattered then and it matters today. You don't want them to understand that when they draw these racist lines and tell black folk that they shouldn't have representation in this country that it is against the Constitution. (05:31–05:37)

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Asserts that there is resistance to understanding the significance of the 14th Amendment.

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