Between Eli Crane, Tommy Tuberville, and a vote on an NDAA amendment, it was, as stevebenen writes, a rather brutal week for Republicans on race.
A year later, the party that thought its messaging was starting to “resonate” with Black voters appears to be taking fresh steps to push Black voters further away. NBC NewsRep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz. referred to Black people as “colored people” Thursday in floor debate over his proposed amendment to an annual defense policy bill, prompting a stern rebuke from the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
At issue was Crane’s proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act , which would prohibit the Defense Department from considering race, among other factors, as the sole basis for recruitment training, education, promotion or retention decisions. In case his reference to “colored people” and his proposed police were too subtle, the Arizona Republican added, “The military was never intended to be, you know, inclusive. Its strength is not its diversity. Its strength is its standards. ... I’m going to tell you guys this right now: You can keep playing around these games with diversity, equity and inclusion. But there are some real threats out there. And if we keep messing around and we keep lowering our standards, it’s not going to be good.
Or put another way, the freshman congressman apparently believes that to care about diversity in the armed forces is to support"lower" standards.Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio asked that Crane’s derogatory phrase be stricken from the record, and it was. But when it came time to vote on the GOP congressman’s amendment, it passedAll of this unfolded just days after a different congressional Republican, Sen.
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