Senator Tommy Tuberville’s White Nationalist Comments Distorted By His Predecessor Indicting KKK Members
Before the 2017 special election to the Senate in Alabama, in which he defeated the alleged child molester Roy Moore, Doug Jones best known for the prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members who bombed Birmingham’s 16th Baptist Church in 1963, killing four girls. On Sunday morning, Jones delivered harsh words for his successor, the former Auburn team coach. Tommy Tubervillefor spending the past week pranking white nationalism.
In an interview last Monday with a public radio station in Birmingham, Tuberville, a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, was asked if he believed “populists.” white race” can serve in the military. The Biden administration has made countering extremism in the military a top priority in the country after the January 6 attacks; nearly one-fifth of the rioters who have been charged are ex-soldiers. “That’s what they call them,” Tuberville replied, referring to the Biden administration’s criticism of white nationalists. “I call them Americans.”
“He has a history of saying these things,” Jones said during his Sunday morning appearance on MSNBC. “This is a man running for the Senate who didn’t even know what the Voting Rights Act was.” Jones was referring to a moment during the 2020 campaign in which Tuberville was asked about expanding the Voting Rights Act and had difficulty explaining the basics of the law.
Tuberville’s office attempted to clarify the comments on Wednesday, telling Alabama-based news agency AL.com that Tuberville was “sceptical to the notion that there are skin nationalists.” white in the army, not that he believes they should join the army.” Speaking at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Tuberville said, “There are so many good people who are Trump supporters that for some reason my Democratic colleagues like to portray them as followers. white nationalism. Measure is not true.”
Jones considers himself skeptical of Tuberville’s attempt to retract the comment: “It’s hard to get someone to step back and clarify when they really don’t know what they’re talking about,” he said on Sunday morning. Jones added that white nationalism “has been on the radar of the country” since the deadly 2017 Charlottesville march. Multiple reports have demonstrated that the US military is struggling with the problem. white nationalism theme.
Tuberville’s remarks last week were also criticized by the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who called them “totally rebellious” on Thursday. “I can’t believe this needs to be said,” Schumer said, “but white nationalism has no place in our armed forces and no place in any corner of our country. American society, the period, the complete end, the end of the story.
On Saturday afternoon, Jones quoted a video shows the Patriotic Front of the white supremacist gang marching towards the US Capitol: “Damn it, I hope they haven’t heard of Tuberville and will try to enlist!”
