Ocasio-Cortez Implies Pelosi Is Racist For Singling Out ‘Newly Elected Women Of Color’
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implied Wednesday that Nancy Pelosi is racist, saying that the House Speaker has been “disrespectful” towards “newly elected women of color” in Congress.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Ocasio-Cortez addressed the growing rift between Pelosi and the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
Pelosi was quoted in a New York Times article on Saturday taking a thinly veiled shot at Ocasio-Cortez and several other freshmen Democrats who voted against a bill to help migrants at the border.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world, but they didn’t have any following,” Pelosi to The Times’ Maureen Dowd. “They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
Pelosi was referring to Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who are all minority women.
Ocasio-Cortez told The Post that she initially believed that Pelosi was employing a strategy to protect moderate Democrats. But she suggested that she believes there is could be a racial tinge to Pelosi’s repeated rebuke of Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow freshmen.
“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood. But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color,” she told The Post.
Pelosi said earlier on Wednesday she did not regret her initial remarks, saying “I have no regrets about anything.”
She also rebuked progressive Democrats in a private meeting Wednesday about their habit of criticizing moderate members on social media.
“So, again, you got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it,” she told Democrats, according to Politico. “But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK.”
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