[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 52 (Friday, March 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       RECOGNIZING LATRICE POWELL

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I take this brief moment to salute 
Latrice Powell. We are humbled by her service. I wear on my jacket Lady 
Freedom. I would argue that Latrice Powell is our Sojourner Truth 
because she is a pioneer and has made an enormous difference in this 
House, that is the people's House. She truly is a representative of the 
people. With that in mind, I thank her so very much for all that she 
has done.
  Madam Speaker, I must take this separate moment again, as she knows, 
to honor those who died in Atlanta, to honor them for the vile way in 
which they lost their lives; to say that those women, Asian-American 
women, really were the victims of hate crimes. Why? Because women 
gender can be a hate crime.
  Madam Speaker, and I would only say to my colleague--a friend of 
mine, yes, from Texas--in the midst of pain, to talk about a rope and 
an oak tree as a tradition of Texas, lynching, is absurd, unacceptable, 
and I denounce.
  I apologize for any hurt that was given to the Asian-American 
community, and I ask my colleague to apologize.
  Madam Speaker, I ask us to join together against hate crimes.

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