{"id":588858,"date":"2023-08-28T05:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pressley-fires-back-on-ramaswamys-comments-it-is-deeply-offensive\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T05:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:53:56","slug":"pressley-fires-back-on-ramaswamys-comments-it-is-deeply-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pressley-fires-back-on-ramaswamys-comments-it-is-deeply-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pressley fires back on Ramaswamy\u2019s comments: \u2018It is deeply offensive\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/pressleyayanna_041923ag02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) hit back at GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s remarks toward her last week, when he compared the congresswoman to \u201cgrand wizards in the KKK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressley responded to Ramaswamy\u2019s comments about her and progressive author\u00a0Ibram X. Kendi on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cPoliticsNation\u201d with host Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cReverend Al, the verbal assault lobbied against myself and Dr. Kendi is shameful. It is deeply offensive. And it is dangerous,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is not that long ago that we were besieged by images of white supremacists carrying tiki torches in Charlottesville.\u00a0 It was not that long ago that a white supremacist mob seized the Capitol, waving Confederate flags and erecting nooses on the West Lawn of the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy doubled down on his remarks toward Pressley on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday, claiming that his assessment of her comments should spark an \u201copen and honest\u201d discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all agree that the KKK was an awful organization. That is a toxic stain in our national history. So given that, we can start from that point of agreement. Now that allows us to say, well, who actually sounds more like that organization today? The people who are calling for more racial discrimination on the basis of skin color,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In her response, Pressley, who is Black, said she remains focused on pursuing racial justice in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one of my childhood memories that is deeply embedded in that my own ancestors and living family members have been brutalized, lynched, raped by the Ku Klux Klan,\u201d she told Sharpton. \u201cI recall when my family member had moved into a predominantly white cul-de-sac in the \u201980s when I was a child.\u00a0 And we had a cross burned in our lawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, for me, as deeply shameful and offensive and dangerous as his words are, he is not occupying any real estate in my mind,\u201d she continued. \u201cI remain squarely focused on the work of undoing the centuries of harm that has precisely been done to Black Americans and charting a path of true restorative justice and racial justice forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The remarks at the center of the issue came from a campaign event of Ramaswamy\u2019s on Friday when he was responding to comments made by Pressley in 2019 in which she said: \u201cWe don\u2019t want any more Black faces that don\u2019t want to be a Black voice. We don\u2019t want any more brown faces that don\u2019t want to be a brown voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) hit back at GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy\u2019s remarks toward her last week, when he compared the congresswoman to \u201cgrand wizards in the KKK.\u201d Pressley responded to Ramaswamy\u2019s comments about her and progressive author\u00a0Ibram X. Kendi on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cPoliticsNation\u201d with host Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday. \u201cReverend Al, the verbal assault&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/pressleyayanna_041923ag02_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[142752,134343,134353,134661,90482,133498,124783,134345,140925],"class_list":["post-588858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ayanna-pressley","tag-campaign","tag-court-battles","tag-energy-environment","tag-house","tag-in-the-know","tag-international","tag-state-watch","tag-vivek-ramaswamy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}