[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 5, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H3670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         WE WERE NOT BETTER OFF

  (Mr. JEFFRIES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, it has come to my attention that a so-
called leader has made the factually inaccurate statement that Black 
folks were better off during Jim Crow. That is an outlandish, 
outrageous, and out-of-pocket observation.
  We were not better off when a young boy named Emmett Till could be 
brutally murdered without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not 
better off when Black women could be sexually assaulted without 
consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when people 
could be systematically lynched without consequence because of Jim 
Crow. We were not better off when children could be denied a high-
quality education without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not 
better off when people could be denied the right to vote without 
consequence because of Jim Crow.
  How dare you make such an ignorant observation. You better check 
yourself before you wreck yourself.

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