{"id":1035105,"date":"2024-06-10T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1035105"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:14:44","slug":"statement-in-new-interview-rfk-jr-doubles-down-on-racist-rhetoric-and-shows-no-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/statement-in-new-interview-rfk-jr-doubles-down-on-racist-rhetoric-and-shows-no-remorse\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: In New Interview, RFK Jr. Doubles Down on Racist Rhetoric and Shows No Remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As RFK Jr. attempts to lean on his family\u2019s civil rights legacy and pitch himself as the continuation of that record, he is finding it hard to hide from his past. Now, in a new interview with <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-MdnO88bs7I\"><em>Tasha K<\/em><\/a><em>., he doubled down on racist rhetoric, tried to justify his past actions, and showed no remorse when confronted about a story published this week in TheGrio.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reporting on Thursday from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2024\/06\/06\/rfk-jr-blasted-for-continuing-to-accuse-black-and-brown-men-of-murder\/\"><em>TheGrio <\/em><\/a><em>examined how RFK Jr. falsely accused two innocent men of color of the murder of a white woman in order to exonerate his white cousin who was convicted of the crime. Just like Donald Trump and the Central Park Five, RFK Jr. tried to ruin these men\u2019s lives. In the process, RFK Jr. raked in money from book and TV deals while peddling racist stereotypes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only did RFK Jr. falsely accuse two men of color of murder, he\u2019s now doubling down on racist rhetoric in his spoiler campaign for the presidency. His racist rhetoric was wrong when he first used it, and it\u2019s worse now that he continues to lean into racist stereotypes like calling Black men \u2018gangsters.\u2019 RFK Jr. continues to show no remorse for his actions and just like Donald Trump, he is dangerous for the Black community and dangerous for America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CLIP AND TRANSCRIPT<\/strong><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-MdnO88bs7I\">[15:42:00]&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RFK Jr.: <\/strong>\u201cAnd, and these two guys were kind of <strong><em>big, athletic, and they were kind of gangsters<\/em><\/strong>. One of them was white. One of them was Black. And Tony started bringing these kids up to Greenwich on weekends. And he was the one who introduced, um, these boys to Martha Moxley, to the girl. And then on Halloween Eve, he went up with them and they told him on the train on the way up here, \u2018We&#8217;re going to get her and we&#8217;re going to rape her, and we&#8217;re going to we&#8217;re going to<strong><em> take her caveman style<\/em><\/strong>. We&#8217;re going to drag her in the woods and knock her on the head.\u2019&nbsp; And, um, and that&#8217;s what they did.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BACKGROUND: <\/strong>As RFK Jr. attempts to lean on his family\u2019s history of strong civil rights leadership and pitch himself as the continuation of that legacy, he is finding it hard to hide from his past. Reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2024\/06\/06\/rfk-jr-blasted-for-continuing-to-accuse-black-and-brown-men-of-murder\/\">TheGrio<\/a> examines how RFK Jr. falsely accused two innocent men \u2013 one of them Black, and one of them mixed race\u2013 of murdering a white woman to exonerate his white cousin who was convicted of the crime. Just like Donald Trump and the Central Park Five, RFK Jr. tried to ruin these men\u2019s lives. In the process, RFK Jr. raked in money from book and TV deals while peddling racist stereotypes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As RFK Jr. attempts to lean on his family\u2019s civil rights legacy and pitch himself as the continuation of that record, he is finding it hard to hide from his past. Now, in a new interview with Tasha K., he doubled down on racist rhetoric, tried to justify his past actions, and showed no remorse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>STATEMENT: In New Interview, RFK Jr. Doubles Down on Racist Rhetoric and Shows No Remorse - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/statement-in-new-interview-rfk-jr-doubles-down-on-racist-rhetoric-and-shows-no-remorse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-10T17:14:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/statement-in-new-interview-rfk-jr-doubles-down-on-racist-rhetoric-and-shows-no-remorse\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/statement-in-new-interview-rfk-jr-doubles-down-on-racist-rhetoric-and-shows-no-remorse\/\",\"name\":\"STATEMENT: In New Interview, RFK Jr. Doubles Down on Racist Rhetoric and Shows No Remorse - 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