Jaw-Dropping Moment GOP Rep Says: 'Slavery is Over. Jim Crow is Dead.'

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]I'm seeing a lot of talk from my colleagues on the left too as we uh shift toward this reinvigorated talk about Jim Crow and the past of this country. And as someone who is a direct descendant of a slave, as someone whose great great-grandfather was born on a plantation, I can assure you slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Lopez, you're a 16-year-old sophomore at WY High School.

[00:00:27]Did you ever imagine that your high school in Texas, of all places, our great state of Texas, of course, would become a breeding ground for pro-Sharia material and Islamic conversation.

[00:00:38]I would never imagine that we'd have a hearing um questioning the um you know, legitimacy of terror linked organizations going to schools. I would never believe we would have this, but that's the America we live in and it's it's a it's a sad situation. Do you think there's an inongruency in the way you are treated as a Christian in your school and the justosition of that and the way that your school is welcoming um Sharia law and Islamic doctrine?

[00:01:05]>> Yes, there's a clear double standard.

[00:01:07]>> It's a shame that we are here today and I'm sorry that we have failed you, but this is why we have this caucus because we're going to make sure that we get this right and everybody is treated fairly regardless of your race, religion or creed. To some people in this room, what I'm about to say may sound a bit controversial, but it's not controversial because it's true. America is a Christian nation. We were founded upon Christian values. Our founders believe that our rights did not come from government, but they came from God.

[00:01:38]Those ideals shaped our institutions, our culture, our laws, and the very moral foundation and fabric of what I know is the greatest country in the world. Now, America is also a country that welcomes people from all backgrounds of every culture and faith.

[00:01:52]That's actually what is a part of our greatness. And as somebody like me that fought in combat to ensure that anyone could come to this nation and believe what they want to believe and believe in the first and second amendment rights, I welcome that more than you could ever believe because I laid my life down on the line to ensure that that would happen. But let's be clear about something. Assimilation to American values and ideas matter.

[00:02:19]When we begin importing belief systems and cultural values that are fundamentally incompatible with the principles that build this nation, we should not be surprised when the social fabric begins to fray. Let me be clear.

[00:02:34]This is not hateful. This is not racist.

[00:02:38]This is not xenophobic. And I can show I'm not racist. I've been black for like my whole life, for like 44 years.

[00:02:44]I say the Sharia law has no place to to usurp our constitution in these United States of America and especially in our schools and especially in our public institutions.

[00:02:57]America's legal system is rooted in the Constitution and equal justice under the law, not religious extremism or parallel legal systems. We have learned from many of our colleagues on the left that this tends to be how they tack in this general direction. Ten Commandments not allowed, bad. Islamic pamphlets good.

[00:03:17]Ten Commandments bad. Free Qurans in schools good. Ten Commandments bad.

[00:03:24]Understanding Sharia law brochures good.

[00:03:29]This is the hypocrisy that we Christian Americans are quite sick of.

[00:03:35]The same people who mock or marginalize America's founding values suddenly become deeply tolerant when the ideology in question is directed against Western traditions and institutions. Meanwhile, Sharia law is normalized and distributed to children in school while expressions of traditional faith are treated like a threat. Here's how things should work.

[00:03:58]Math? Yeah. Free Qurans? No. History?

[00:04:03]Yeah.

[00:04:04]Tree brochures? No. Science? Yeah.

[00:04:09]Shahada cards? No. This is a very simple idea that should be understood by all Americans. One of my best friends is a Muslim American and he is a fighting Texas Aggie, but he actually sees himself as an American first and has fully embraced our culture and what it means to be an American. That's good.

[00:04:31]That's what we want. That's why we call this place a melting pot. I'm seeing a lot of talk from my colleagues on the left too as we uh shift toward this reinvigorated talk about Jim Crow and the past of this country and as someone who is a direct descendant of a slave.

[00:04:50]As someone whose great great-grandfather was born on a plantation, I can assure you slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead.

[00:04:59]When I go anywhere, I don't see any white only signs. I don't. I promise you, I am a black man that represent a a white majority district in Texas. the great great grandson of a man born on the plantation stands before you today as a proud conservative Republican from Texas as a believer and follower in Christ and as a believer in what this country can be if we allow equality for not just Muslim Americans, not just Buddhist Americans, but also Christian Americans like yourself. God bless you, young man. You give me a lot of hope for the future of this country.