[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CONDEMNING DOMESTIC TERRORISM

  (Ms. PLASKETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PLASKETT. Mr. Speaker, this Sunday, in the State in which I was 
born and raised, New York, a man drove 3 hours and 200 miles to 
terrorize members of a local Black community. This man shot 13 people, 
11 of which were Black.
  This was not a random act of violence. This was a domestic terrorist 
attack, an act of hate ignited by replacement theory rhetoric that is 
fueled by white supremacists, FOX News, and, indeed, some of my 
Republican colleagues.
  This false, ignorant, race-baiting theory, called the great 
replacement, has been used in multiple race-based domestic terrorist 
acts, including the synagogue attack in Pittsburgh and the El Paso 
shooting attack in 2019.
  There are a number of my Republican colleagues who spew this vile and 
venomous rhetoric. The silence of Republican leadership and their ranks 
in condemning this rhetoric that is not just ripping our country apart 
but contributing to the death of Americans shows that they are no 
longer the party of Lincoln or even the party of Ronald Reagan.

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