Rep. Cummings: Blacks Worried Secret Service Is Racist

‘Eighty-five percent of all African-Americans that come to me mention [this fear], and I don’t agree with it’

Rep. Cummings: African Americans Worried Secret Service Is Racist (Mediaite)

Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told Face the Nation that an overwhelming majority of African Americans he’s spoken to fear the Secret Service has fallen down on protecting President Barack Obama because of his race, something Cummings said he didn’t personally believe.

“Eighty-five percent of all African-Americans that come to me mention [this fear], and I don’t agree with it,” said Cummings, who was vocal about the need for former Director Julia Pierson to resign.

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