'Can't Hang Out With the KKK!' Jasmine Crockett Says 'Conservative' Black People Don't Join GOP [View all]

Source: Raw Story

Aug 14th, 2025, 4:05 pm


During a panel discussion at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Crockett made the comments in a clip making the rounds on social media. After slamming President Donald Trump for building a White House ballroom and arguing that his administration knows how to “specifically get at Black folk’s emotional triggers,” Crockett said:

I talk to Black folk all the time as somebody that’s a child of a preacher. Listen, most Black people are not Republicans simply because we just is like, “Y’all racist. I can’t hang out with the KKK and them.” That’s really what it is. But when we think about who we are as Black people, and we think about where we come from, most Black people have very conservative values, right? But the reality is that like, we just can’t side with like the neo-Nazis and them. We like, “We not-, we not dealing with y’all like that, right?

Crockett has made a name for herself as a national figure in recent months by emerging as one of Trump and his party’s most strident critics.

We’ve got a mental health crisis in this country because everyone, no matter how you affiliate yourself, should be against Trump, period. This is not partisan for me,” declared Crockett in an interview earlier this summer.

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Full headline: ‘Can’t Hang Out With the KKK!’ Jasmine Crockett Says ‘Conservative’ Black People Don’t Join GOP Because Republicans Are ‘Racist’