AOC Senate Jim Crow flub

    by Flint: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting roasted for this awkward flub. While discussing the US Senate, she said it was "founded on, on, uhh, on, Jim Crow." But Jim Crow came nearly a century after the Senate was created. #AlexandriaOcasioCortez

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    call to abolish the U.S. Senate. The New York Democrat repeatedly declined to reject the plan. And when I pressed her on whether she supports the institution, Ocasio-Cortez suggested elements of the Senate were racist. I don't support the filibuster. I don't support elements of this institution that we know, you know, were founded on Jim Crow. Those comments here in the Senate drawing sharp criticism.