Rep Crockett Uses Confirmation Hearing to Rattle off Her Own Accomplishments

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CROCKETT: “there are some things indicated in Project 2025 that are quite concerning to me. And I want to talk about a few of those topics, because this hearing almost feels like a Project 2025. One of those topics is diversity in the workplace. The agenda includes making sure that the next conservative administration dismantles DEI apparatus by eliminating various chief diversity officer positions, et cetera. And you engage in an exchange earlier with one of my colleagues, and I don't know if you recall, but it was hitting me a little differently as a black woman sitting here, because it almost seemed as if you either get diversity or you get qualifications, it did not seem as if my colleague understood that someone can be diverse and qualified. And it is why you have people like me, they get very frustrated, not just in the halls of Congress, but in general in this country. Because as I'm sitting here, and there seem to be this question of you're either diverse or you're qualified, all I could think about was the fact that I currently hold an honorary doctorate, I also hold a juris doctorate. I also hold a bachelor's. I also technically hold the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol. And I actually practice law for almost two decades, in addition to serving on various boards, in addition to being a prior state lawmaker. And there are those that would make some people believe that because I happen to be black and/or a woman, that somehow even though I can rattle off all the qualifications in the world, my blackness makes me unqualified.”