Hakeem Jeffries decries Byron Donalds 'outlandish' Jim Crow comments about black families

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took to the House floor Wednesday to condemn comments made by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) suggesting black people were better off during the Jim Crow era.

“That’s an outlandish, outrageous, and out-of-pocket observation,” Jeffries said. “We were not better off when people could be systematically lynched without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when children could be denied a high-quality education without consequence because of Jim Crow. We were not better off when people could be denied the right to vote without consequence because of Jim Crow.”