Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reflected on the Civil Rights Movement in an interview on the “Outlaws with TS Madison” podcast.

REP. JASMINE CROCKETT (D-TX): I just think about and I wonder what did the struggles look like back in the day when we had not enjoyed things such as the passing of the Civil Rights Act when we did not enjoy some of the freedoms where we acknowledge things like Jim Crow was wrong and I think about the fact that when they justified not treating us as a whole person when they justified us being somebody else’s property when they justified, you know separate but equal and not allowing us to learn together not allowing us to eat in the same places or drink out of the same facilities when I think about those things. I think about the fact that they justified it number one through the Bible. Yeah, and then I think about the fact that they also had this justification as if we were different as if we didn’t all believe the same and we weren’t the same and so as the attacks seem new they really are tired and old and we’ve been through them before and I can recognize the hate no matter if we’re talking about in the 50s or if we’re talking about in 2025. And so with me, I know that we’ve persevered past them. We have still been able to accomplish so much despite them and I truly believe that as we walk into this next season this losing season for the haters. I think that we will again be able to transgress and show that like we are great. We are normal. We are actually if anything we got a super powers as far as I’m concerned. So it is easier in my opinion to do what’s right every single day that I go in and serve and do right for everyone because at the end of the day, I know that there was a time and a place and if they could they would throw me back in chains. Yeah, somehow those that came before us managed to break loose of the physical chains, even though we still have a bunch of systemic chains that we are still kind of wrangling with.

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