C-SPAN took calls during its usual programming on Monday and received a… perplexing phone call from a Republican woman in Ohio who shared her mistrust in 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris before quickly pivoting to her complaints about racism, and blaming Black people for Jim Crow laws.
When asked about Harris’ candidacy for president on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the caller who identified herself as 63-year-old “Mary” described the Vice President as “a sheep in wolf’s clothing” before complaining about House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) linking Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign with white supremacy.
“I don’t have time to be racist. I’ve been too busy working and trying to put a roof over my head and take care of my family.”
“Mary” also told C-SPAN she is a grandmother who has told her grandchildren “not to be guilty for anything they haven’t done, slash slavery, Jim Crow laws. And the Black people, the Black men voted in for the Jim Crow laws back in 1872,” she said.
“That’s a history that Black people don’t want out there. They actually helped vote those people in that made those laws,” she added.
Black Americans, in fact, were not allowed to vote before the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
“Mary” then turned the discussion to immigration and Haitians who she said were “living in Brazil, [and] in Chile” before September of 2021, and complained about MS-13 gang members during the phone call which lasted less than two minutes.
The host cut “Mary” off before she could finish sharing her thoughts and moved along to the next caller named “Jane.”
Listen to “Mary’s” full phone call to C-SPAN.
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