[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6279]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SAD WEEK IN AMERICA

  (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. Mr. Speaker, over the last week there was an 
unseemly, sad connection between a Supreme Court decision, the comments 
of Mr. Bundy, and the comments of the Los Angeles owner in the NBA. 
Justice Sonia Sotomayer had it right with respect to the affirmative 
action decision: the Court's decision perpetrated harm to African 
American, Hispanic, and Native American students, but it also provided 
a harm to Michigan's public schools when they were trying to ensure the 
next generation of diverse persons who could in fact be part of a new 
America.
  Mr. Bundy's comments about government subsidies and wouldn't we be 
better off as slaves and picking cotton were outrageous, disgraceful, 
and disgusting.
  Sadly, sports groups, the National Basketball Association that brings 
people together, the owner decided to talk about not putting Black 
people and others together in a public setting. America must move 
beyond that, and we as Members of Congress and others must stand 
against it and denounce it. This was a sad week. I hope we will move 
beyond it. I hope we will get better, and I hope we will denounce those 
ugly, racist, outrageous comments.

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