In a House Judiciary Hearing regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) held on Tuesday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that “white men are lecturing people of color,” and criticized a witness in the hearing, Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr, and read out of context quotes from the late Charlie Kirk.

“So, just to be clear, y’all don’t seem like y’all even understand what a hate organization is. So, I went to Google to help you out. A hate group is an organized group whose beliefs, practices, and primary purpose are centered on advocating malice, hostility, or violence towards people based on their immutable race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.”

She moved on to talking about the late Charlie Kirk, telling members of the committee, “I know some of y’all are, you know, capping for Charlie Kirk, because I done heard y’all talk about his organization over and over and over.” She went on to read out comments from Charlie Kirk that have been taken out of context.

“If I see a black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified,” Crockett quoted Kirk as saying. She continued, asking witness Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy Protection, “does that sound like a hater or not.” McCord replied, “That sounds like a racial stereotype.” That quote from Kirk came at a time when United Airlines’ CEO said he wanted to increase the number of pilots who are women or not white, with Kirk raising concerns about whether these pilots would be hired because they are qualified, or because they meet the quota.

Crockett continued to the next quote: “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.” McCord replied, “Sounds like someone who still adheres to racist views.” Crockett also quoted Kirk as saying, “America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank, large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.” McCord replied, “that is someone who can’t accept that America is a multiracial, multireligious place.”

Crockett continued, “these all just happen to be comments from the fearless leader of Turning Point USA, so I could see where SPLC was going.”

Crockett was taken to task on the Charlie Kirk show, where the out-of-context quotes were debunked. Going one by one, TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said, “Black pilots, that’s a bastardized out of context clip where Charlie was reflecting on the fact that the CEO of United was going to mandate racial quotas and gender quotas on the new pilot classes.” He added, “Charlie, responding to that says, I don’t do this now, but if you’re going to enforce it, I’m going to say hey, I hope he’s qualified, because guess what, that is an actual logical and rational reaction.”

On Crockett’s second quote regarding the Civil Rights Act, Kolvet said, “Did you know that the Supreme Court agreed with Charlie Kirk, because they just gutted the VRA, right? Okay, so the Voting Rights Act, it’s something different, but it’s the same era, and Charlie was sort of making that comment about all of that. It created racial gerrymandered lines. Guess what else the Civil Rights Act has been used to do? Civil Rights Act has been used to reinforce trans dudes, dudes that think they’re women, to go into women’s locker rooms. Those laws have been bastardized and used to corrupt women’s sports. That actually is totally a fair critique that you could agree. Charlie also said, I agree with the intent of the Civil Rights Act, but it went too far. It became extra-constitutional. It became the new constitution.”

Regarding the Islamic areas comment, Kolvet said, “So, Charlie said, ‘Listen, it’s not good to have whole neighborhoods that are established on like Sharia law.’ Whoa, that’s super controversial.” He added, “It’s called common sense. We don’t want people that are subjugating other people, taxing them, creating streets named after Islamic conquerors.”

“White men are lecturing people of color, because the vast majority, actually, any semblance of diversity, comes from this side of the aisle,” Crockett said, referring to “white men” in the Republican Party in comparison to members of the Democrat Party. “You want to tell people of color who is fighting for who? People of color do not feel comfortable or welcomed within your party, that’s why you have to parade someone who has the name Dr King attached to them so that people can be confused.”

She said she had read comments from people online being confused as to who Dr. Alveda King is “because you want them to believe that somehow she espouses who Dr. King was, yet you’ve yet to have MLK III come in here, you’ve yet to have Dr. Bernice King, the ones that were actually raised by Dr. King, the ones that actually probably understand the teachings of Dr. King.”