Veasey: Things Weren’t Good Under Jim Crow, Regardless of What the Marriage Rate Were During that Time

RUSH EXCERPT:
VEASEY: "I know Donald well, and I’m surprised that he said that, because — and I’ve heard other people say things like that before, but what people forget is that during segregation that black educational attainment rates were much lower than whites. When you look at the black poverty rate during that time period, it was astonishingly high. And all of those things have improved with Jim Crow being erased. And of course, I would never be in Congress were we still under Jim Crow. I think about how I got my start as an elected official in the state legislature, the county that I’m from you had to be elected countywide to be a state legislator. You could not get elected in a single-member district because they were illegal in Texas. And all of those thing disenfranchised us and held us back. And so things weren’t good under Jim Crow, regardless of what the marriage rates may have been during that time, we have excelled, we have gotten ahead, we are doing much better post-Jim Crow. And I need for my Republican colleagues to understand that."