‘Squad’ Democrat Lashes Out After Vivek Ramaswamy Compares Her To The KKK

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) lashed out at GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy for comparing rhetoric coming from “anti-racism” advocates to the KKK.

During a campaign appearance in Iowa last Friday, Ramaswamy took aim at Pressley and Ibram X. Kendi over their rhetoric on race in America. Kendi — an “anti-racism” consultant — has been promoted in a number of school districts across the nation. His signature book How To Be An Anti-Racist argues that the remedy to “past discrimination is future discrimination” while using a circular definition of “racism.”

When asked how he would respond to leftist media outlets accusing him of catering to “white supremacy,” Ramaswamy quoted both Pressley and Kendi. “Ayanna Pressley, she’s in the Congress today,” Ramaswamy responded. “She’s a member of ‘the squad.’ Her words, not mine: ‘We don’t want any more Black faces that don’t want to be a Black voice. We don’t want any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.’”

“The greatest racism I’ve experienced ― and I have experienced racism ― comes from the modern left at a scale unimaginable,” the GOP hopeful added.  “Because I think they feel a sense of betrayal, saying that, ‘You’re not speaking in the tone that you’re supposed to.’”

“So the other side will gaslight you when you’re saying this stuff, ‘Oh, you’re just making that stuff up.’ These are the words of the modern Grand Wizards of the modern KKK.”

On Sunday, the far-left congresswoman lashed out at Ramaswamy for comparing her rhetoric to that of KKK grand wizards. “The verbal assault lobbied against myself and Dr. Kendi is shameful,” Pressley said during an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC. “It is deeply offensive, and it is dangerous.”

“It is not that long ago that we were besieged by images of white supremacists carrying tiki torches in Charlottesville.  It was not that long ago that a white supremacist mob seized the Capitol, waving Confederate flags and erecting nooses on the West Lawn of the Capitol.”

“So, for me, as deeply shameful and offensive and dangerous as his words are, he is not occupying any real estate in my mind,” she continued. “I remain squarely focused on the work of undoing the centuries of harm that has precisely been done to Black Americans and charting a path of true restorative justice and racial justice forward.”