Al Green Plays Race Card While Complaining About Being Censured For Disrupting Trump’s Speech

Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green suggested on Friday that the House of Representatives censuring him for disrupting President Donald Trump’s congressional address was rooted in racial “discrimination.”

Green was removed from the House chamber after refusing to stop interrupting Trump during the Tuesday speech, prompting the House of Representatives to vote to censure him in a resolution that described his behavior as a “breach of proper conduct” for creating “numerous disruptions.” On “The Breakfast Club,” Green argued that he was treated unfairly compared to white representatives who have interrupted congressional addresses in the past without facing consequences.

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“There is invidious discrimination in the House of Representatives. I’m a son of the segregated South. The rights that the Constitution recognized for me, my friends and neighbors denied,” Green said. “I had to sit in the back of the bus, the balcony of the movie, drink from a colored water fountain and my relatives who committed some crimes were locked up in the bottom of the jail. I know what invidious discrimination looks like. The Klan burned a cross in my yard. I know what it smells like.”

“I was in filthy waiting rooms and I’ve been in places where I didn’t want to be. And I know what it sounds like. I’ve been called all kinds of ugly names. So I know invidious discrimination,” he continued. “And when the speaker decided that I would be removed, and then there was this motion, this resolution to censure me, it became obvious to me that I was not being treated as others were. And candidly speaking, it is invidious discrimination, harmful discrimination.”