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‘Guam guy’ Hank Johnson says blacks aren’t ‘intellectually suited’ for field work but Hispanics are

Hank Johnson, a Democratic congressman from Georgia’s 4th District, recently made a comment that was, stupidity-wise, on par with his 2010 statement about the island of Guam potentially capsizing if too many Marines were placed on one side.

During a virtual event hosted by the progressive group Our Future First on March 4, Johnson told Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), and others that President Trump’s education policies, specifically his plans to “defund” public schools and funnel money to private, “for-profit setups,” would harm the black community — a ridiculous idea from the get-go when you consider how fundamentally flawed our current education system is.

However, Johnson then took his grievances to a very weird place.

“It’s a recipe to make education unavailable to black people. And where does that then leave us? It puts us back to when America was great, and we were picking cotton and…

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