South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn has insited that President Trump’s cleanup of Washington D.C. amounts to Jim Crow 2.0.
Trump deployed the National Guard to the streets of Washington D.C. in order to crack down on soaring crime and homelessness.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez, Clyburn explained why this move represents a return to racial segregation of the past.
He explained:
You may recall, at the Democratic Convention, I spoke one evening and I said that Project 2025 is Jim Crow 2.0. Now, Jim Crow 1.0 came out of a [thesis] written by a Confederate General, Martin Gary.
If you look at Project 2025, look at that 1876 document, you will see why I said what I did at the Democratic Convention, because whoever wrote Project 2025, they used those edicts out of 1876.
I can tell you, right now, exactly what is going to happen in so many of these instances, because it’s all right there.
If you look in the history books, you see it. And so, that’s why the Mayor said what she said.
In fact, I was with one of her top aides over the weekend, and we had some discussions on this.
No, they’re not surprised, because we’ve been talking about this for a while. We were just hoping it would not come to pass.
Watch the clip below:
Jim Clyburn: “You may recall at the Democratic Convention I spoke one evening and I said that Project 2025 is Jim Crow 2.0. Now Jim Crow 1.0 came out of a thesis written by a confederate general, Martin Garrett.” pic.twitter.com/gsKZbvVHnk
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Meanwhile, the city’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser was slightly more diplomatic, describing the move as “unsettling and unprecedented.”
“While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised,” Bowser said during a press conference on Monday.
“I can say to D.C. residents that we will continue to operate our government in a way that makes you proud.”
The chair of the Washington police union, Greg Pemberton, has praised the intervention as a “a critical stopgap.”
“We stand with the President in recognizing that Washington, DC, cannot continue on this trajectory,” he said in a statement.
”Crime is out of control, and our officers are stretched beyond their limits.”
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