Analysis: Having a black friend doesn’t mean you’re not racist.
Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump family aide and an official at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, appeared at the House Oversight Committee hearing for President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen at the request of Rep. Mark Meadows . By Michael Tesler Michael Tesler Email Bio February 28 at 7:00 AM Michael Cohen called President Trump a racist in his congressional testimony on Wednesday.
Meadows’s use of Patton to help insulate the president from charges of racism was repeatedly criticized by his Democratic colleagues through the remainder of the hearing. Rep. Brenda Lawrence argued that “to prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies [racism] is totally insulting.” Rep. Ayanna Pressley also made the point that having a black friend does not absolve you of committing racist acts.
Meadows took great offense to Tlaib’s comments. He cited family members of color and his close personal friendship with the man chairing the hearings, African American Rep. Elijah E. Cummings , in response to what he interpreted as an allegation of racism. Not many whites in the survey took the overtly racist position of saying “most blacks” lacked those positive attributes. The responses ranged from 9 percent of whites who said “most blacks” aren’t intelligent to 20 percent who said most African Americans aren’t law-abiding or generous.
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