Iowa Congressman: 'Diversity is not our strength'

THERE'S NOT MUCH more I can say about this tweet from Congressman Steve King of Iowa. It speaks for itself.

King's tweet this morning (Dec. 9) is frightenly similar to the views held by Adolf Hitler as he writes in Mein Kamph:

The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racialfoundations of a subjugated people. In his systematic efforts to ruingirls and women he strives to break down the last barriers ofdiscrimination between him and other peoples. The Jews were responsiblefor bringing negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea ofbastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering itscultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate.

What can you expect from a man who regularly makes outlandish statements about people of color.

Last July, King was on Chris Hayes’s MSNBC show, and he objected to the journalist Charlie Pierce’s emphasis on Donald Trump’s reliance on white support.

“This whole white-people business, though, does get a little tired, Charlie,” King said. “I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about. Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”


“Than white people?” Hayes asked, taken aback. “Than Western Civilization itself,” King said.

People of Iowa ... really? This is 2017, not 1939.
________________________________________________________________________________