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Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Rep. Ayanna Pressley And Ibram X. Kendi Part Of ‘Modern KKK’
Vivek Ramaswamy, the multi-millionaire biotech investor seeking the Republican presidential nomination, characterized Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), prominent author Ibram X. Kendi, and other progressive anti-racists as akin to “grand wizards of the modern KKK.”
The remarks came up on Friday afternoon in response to an Iowa resident asking Ramaswamy at a campaign event whether he is likely to be accused by liberals of being a “white supremacist” or some kind of “white adjacent” race traitor.
Ramaswamy responded with a long riff on how he considers those contemporary progressives, who insist that he should have liberal views based on his non-white identity, to be the biggest sources of racial discrimination in contemporary American culture.
He cited as examples two statements made by Pressley and Kendi, who are both Black.
“We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice,” Pressley said at the liberal Netroots Nation conference in 2019. “We don’t need Black faces that don’t want to be a Black voice.”
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