Congressman: Whites ‘contribute more to civilization’
Iowa Congressman Steve King showed his white bona fides on MSNBC.
Click here for reuse options!King, a former supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), said he believes Trump has “modified” himself in this way.But Esquire’s Charles Pierce, who was also on the panel, noted the GOP convention didn’t have much diversity.
“If you’re really optimistic, you can say that this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican Party’s attention, its platform, its public face,” Pierce said.
“That hall is wired by loud, unhappy, dissatisfied white people,” he added.
But King pushed back: “I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about?
“Where did any other sub-group of people contribute more to civilization?”
When MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes pressed King, asking if he meant “white people,” King said: “Than, than Western civilization itself.
“It’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”
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Larry Schmitt July 21st, 2016 at 10:19
Make America White Again.
whatthe46 July 21st, 2016 at 10:21
These people have serious.
mea_mark July 21st, 2016 at 10:26
” “It’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.” ” — White Christian people keeping ‘others’ beaten down. – I don’t call that contributing to civilization, that’s more like a hindrance. Just think where we could be now if we had been cooperating and promoting equality instead.
Mensa Member July 21st, 2016 at 11:57
He’s preaching a theology I’ve heard in Evangelical circles for decades. It’s a highly-spiritualized version of Manifest Destiny. I think I first heard it from Francis Schaeffer.
It’s the most shallow kind of history revisionism: they argue that democracy came from the Bible rather than Greece and Rome.
Red Mann July 21st, 2016 at 14:05
Francis’ son Frank on WND. http://www.wnd.com/2008/03/59599/
Of course the commentators hated it, it contained too much truth.
labman57 July 21st, 2016 at 10:41
This statement could easily be a plank of the Republican platform.
Clearly, world history is not King’s strong suit, as he is clueless about the importance and positive impact of ancient Egypt, China, and the Muslim world on modern civilization.
Mensa Member July 21st, 2016 at 11:48
Everybody contributes — some just do it better.
Blacks: BB King
Whites: Pat Boone
Blacks: Martin Luther King.
Whites: Ted Cruz
Blacks: Jazz
Whites: Hair Metal
Blacks: jambalaya
Whites: hot dish
Blacks: Maya Angelou
Whites: Ann Coulter
I could go on…
Seriously: this is such a ridiculous debate. Yes, of course, Europeans have contributed the most to their own culture – some very bad and a lot very good. (Most of us — not so much)
But to interpret this as white supremacy is just idiotic.
If we lived in sane times, this congressman would resign in shame.
StoneyCurtisll July 21st, 2016 at 12:31
Steven King can get away with this type of racist crap in his state, Iowa is as Lilly white of a state as you are gonna find..
Mensa Member July 21st, 2016 at 12:42
It’s a laughable rewrite of history that I have heard for decades in Evangelical circles.
They claim that democracy originated in the bible, not Greece and Rome.
Don’t get me wrong — I love the bible. I’ve literally spent years studying it.
But it’s not democratic! It’s theocratic.
Suzanne McFly July 21st, 2016 at 12:58
Sad that such an uneducated fool can be accountable for so many citizens well being.
William July 21st, 2016 at 13:49
Well of course they do
jybarz July 21st, 2016 at 16:05
China was already civilised when most, if not all, other human beings on earth were still living in the caves over a thousand years before.
amersham1046 July 21st, 2016 at 16:27
Islam scholars saved most the the ancient Greek writing
bpollen July 22nd, 2016 at 03:50
But just think how far we could have come if not for the Steve Kings of the world.