WATCH: Jasmine Crockett tells grads to ‘know how to use a chair’ – and she didn’t mean for sitting
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas appeared to hint that college graduates should be ready to “use a chair” as a weapon during a Sunday commencement address.
Crockett gave the advice to seniors graduating from Tougaloo College, a historically black college located in Jackson, Mississippi, during a roughly 20-minute speech posted on her YouTube page, according to WTJV.com. Crockett told the graduates that they should be ready to use the chairs on people who tell them they “don’t belong.”
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“There are going to be people that tell you that you don’t belong, and I am here to tell you over and over and over that you absolutely belong,” Crockett said. “There are people that are gonna tell you that there is not a table in which there is a seat for you, but I am here to remind you of Montgomery and those folding chairs. Let me tell you that we know how to use a chair, whether we’re pulling it up or we’re doing something else with it. Let me be the first one to tell you that I know that y’all are ready to put your boots on the ground.”
Crockett appeared to reference a 2023 brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, where some white private boaters brawled with a number of black men, including a dock worker, with at least one of the black men using a folding chair as a weapon during the incident.
Since a clash with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia during a May 2024 House Oversight Committee hearing, Crockett has become a prominent House Democrat, making numerous media appearances. She has used profanity and unleashed racially-charged rants during congressional hearings and called Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas “Governor Hot Wheels” in reference to Abbott’s use of a wheelchair after he was paralyzed following a back injury.
Since Crockett’s clash with Greene, many Democrats have increased their use of profanity and combativeness, calling the confrontational approach “dark woke,” according to The New York Times.
Ryan Wesley Routh was charged with the September 15 attempted assassination of President Donald Trump that was thwarted when a Secret Service agent fired shots at the would-be assassin. Routh, who was lying in wait at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, declared his intent for Trump’s death in a letter while parroting left-wing talking points, according to legal filings.
During the address, Crockett also claimed that using the phrase “DEI hire” was akin to using a racial slur for black people.
“Instead of publicly calling us the N-word, they use racist epithets and suggest that we’re ghetto or unqualified or diversity hires, even though we’re all more, oftentimes than not, more educated and qualified than they are,” Crockett said. “I have news for you: These attacks are not new, because Jim Crow never died. He just lied in wait.”
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