NY Congressman Rangel: I Thought White Cracker Was a ‘Term of Endearment’
Monday on “HuffPost Live,'” Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) told host Marc Lamont Hill when he used the racial slur cracker against the Tea Party he “thought that was a term of endearment.”
When confronted about comparing the Tea Party to southern “white crackers” of the Jim Crow era in a 2013 interview Rangel said, “I thought [cracker] was a term of endearment you know.”
