*Shortly after Rep. Mark Meadows defended himself against allegations of racism during a House committee meeting Wednesday, video surfaced from 2012 of him saying that then-President Barack Obama should be sent “back home to Kenya or wherever.”
As reported by CNN, Meadows, a congressional candidate at the time, was asked at an event, “If the President is not a natural-born citizen, then he does not control the military. And so the question I have, if you’re sent to Congress, will you pursue some kind of an investigation to find out whether or not this guy is really a citizen and entitled to (that) authority?”
“Yes,” Meadows responded. “If we do our job from a grassroots standpoint, we won’t have to worry about it. We’ll send (Obama) back home to Kenya or wherever it is.”
Asked about the video on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Meadows said he’s “addressed that a dozen times.”
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Yeah, Mr. Meadows, you’re an effin’ racist. Get it all out of your system bro because a country like ours which is nearly 70% female, people-of-color and/or young adults is taking power—and the day of the angry, racist, white man is soon going to be a thing of the past, farewell. https://t.co/gyi4mHzfhh
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) February 27, 2019
“And candidly it was not the way that I should’ve answered the questions,” he said. “Certainly is not something that I support from a standpoint of any racial overtones.”
He added, “I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body.”
The videos were shared by liberal commentators in response to Meadows introducing Lynne Patton – a Black woman and longtime Trump associate, to a hearing featuring Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen and referencing her to refute allegations that the president is racist.
“Just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them, does not mean they aren’t racist,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. She added that using Patton, the Housing and Urban Development official, as a political “prop” was “racism in itself.”
In related news, I wonder how Rep Meadows rationalizes his “I’m not racist” stance with his questioning the legitimacy of America’s first Black President b/c “he was born in Kenya or wherever he’s from” stance?pic.twitter.com/8B7F591EcB
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) February 27, 2019
Meadows vehemently denied the implication of racism and ask committee Chairman Elijah Cummings that her remarks be “stricken from the record.”
Tlaib maintained that it was a “racist act” but that she was not calling Meadows a racist.
Wow, it’s almost as if Mark Meadows didn’t spend 2012 repeatedly saying he wanted to send America’s last popularly elected president “back to Kenya” https://t.co/MIkBtvyusy
— David Beard (@dabeard) February 28, 2019
Meadows then responded by noting that his nieces and nephews are “people of color.”
“To indicate that I asked someone who is a personal friend of the Trump family, who has worked for him, who knows this particular individual, that she’s coming in to be a prop, it’s racist to suggest that I ask her to come in here for that reason,” he added.
Here he is AGAIN, in 2012, when @RepMarkMeadows was asked if he would confront Obama over not being born in the United States, he said “We will send him (Obama) back home to Kenya or wherever it is.”
Yes @MarkMeadows – you are a racist and have been for a long time. pic.twitter.com/L8w8QXFF7N
— Shaun King (@shaunking) February 28, 2019
In a 2012 interview with Roll Call shortly after he made the remarks about Obama, Meadows said it was “probably a poor choice of words on my part more than anything else.”
“I believe he’s an American citizen,” he added.
So Mark Meadows didn’t just say it once. Here he is another time saying he wants to send President Obama back to Kenya. But he has a black friend, so we all know he can’t be racist. https://t.co/MDcZEj0ZOn
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) February 28, 2019
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