[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7082]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         CALLING ON THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE TO DENOUNCE RACISM

  (Mr. FLAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, it is rare that I come to this well with news 
that is unpleasant. My tendency is to be very positive about most 
things all the time. However, I will share several events that I would 
like to call to Members' attention.
  On Thursday, as I was in the elevator 5B in the Rayburn House Office 
Building, on the very elevator door was written these words: ``Niggers 
equal crime.'' As if that was not enough, the problem for me was 
exacerbated when about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning I was awakened by a 
telephone call. That telephone call said to me, in a prank call, ``We 
are going to join Newt Gingrich in killing all niggers.''
  Mr. Speaker, I urge you this morning to mount this well as Speaker of 
the House of Representatives, as a leader in this Nation, to let this 
country know that these epithets do not represent you. In the depths of 
my heart I would hope that you would help us to make all Americans 
believe that.


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