Ramaswamy had compared Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), a Black congresswoman, to a KKK grand wizard.
dove headfirst into his controversial comments on Sunday, defending his comparison of Rep. Ayanna Pressley to a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. The entrepreneur, who is running for president in the GOP primary, said he was merely attempting to debate the issue of racism.that Democrats “don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.” He said her words were “the words of the modern grand wizards of the modern KKK.
Host Dana Bash pushed back at the candidate, asking him, “How on earth is she a modern grand wizard of that kind of an organization?” The Ku Klux Klan, a racist organization, has a long history of subjecting Black people to lynchings, murders, and sexual assault. Ramaswamy tried to brush the question off entirely, arguing his inflammatory comment was an attempt at having an “intellectually honest” debate about race relations in the country. Still, Bash said, that ignored how the KKK “lynched people, they raped people, they murdered people, they burned their homes.”Pressley’s team seized on the comments in a fundraising email last week, saying “ a line was crossed” in his remarks.
“I stand by what I said to provoke an open and honest discussion in this country,” Ramaswamy said. “Because there is a gap, Dana, between what people will say in private today and what they will say in public. I think we need to close that gap. We need to have real open, honest, raw conversations as Americans.”
Ramaswamy then complained that Bash, like “what many in the media do,” was pulling a “fringe comment” out of context to attack him, giving Bash an easy retort. “So you just said that your comment was fringe,” she said.
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