The Republican congresswoman who drew attention at a congressional hearing for saying Hunter Biden is the “epitome of white privilege” was immediately called out for her apparent duplicity regarding her work in civil rights and for invoking the phrase “white privilege” in bad taste.
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina was the one Republican congressional member who called for President Joe Biden‘s son’s immediate arrest after he made a surprise appearance at a House Oversight and Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday where Republicans planned to hold him in contempt of Congress. This was after Biden skipped out on a closed-door deposition intended to be part of an impeachment inquiry into his father.
Not only did Mace demand his arrest, but he pointedly called Biden the “epitome of white privilege” for ignoring the summons to the deposition.
As the hearing went on, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas ended up circling back to Mace’s “white privilege” comments, saying, “It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a Black woman, for you to talk about what white privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle. Y’all don’t know what white privilege looks like,” the two-term Democrat added.
Mace worked to defend herself against Crockett’s comments by touting her former position as the ranking member of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee while talking about Black-White relations in her district.
“I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country. I come from a district where rich and poor is literally Black and white, Black versus white on most days,” Mace remarked.
She went on to talk about the number of inmate deaths in the largest jail in her district, how Black men are killed by police, the financial standing of white voters in her district, and prominent Black figures like Joseph Rainey and Harriet Tubman.
However, Democratic Rep.
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