Rep. Wesley Hunt Slams D.L. Hughley for Saying You Can't Be Black and MAGA

Rep. Wesley Hunt is torching D.L. Hughley for siding with Don Lemon's hot take ... that Black MAGA supporters can't be rational.

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00:00Well, first of all, according to D.L. Hughley's argument, every single black person should

00:06be a Democrat.

00:07And I think that's utterly ridiculous.

00:08You see, we have a two-party system, and you need people of all walks of life on both sides

00:14of the party, and that's what makes this system the best you could ever imagine and the best

00:18in the entire world.

00:20And the reason why I listed my qualifications is because, quite frankly, no, actually, Kamala

00:24Harris does not have my qualifications.

00:25I'm a West Point graduate.

00:27I served my country in combat as an Apache pilot.

00:30I have three master's degrees from Cornell University.

00:33And I'm the congressman for a white-majority district that President Trump would have won

00:37by almost 20 points, and I won by 26 points, because literally people are not looking at

00:43the color of my skin, they're looking at my qualifications, and our party doesn't play

00:47that game.

00:48So if you could say something to D.L. Hughley right now, what would you say?

00:51Oh, actually, I was actually a big fan of his growing up and a big fan of his comedy.

00:55And I would love to actually have a conversation with him, a substantive conversation about

01:00this, because that's how we learn, that's how we grow, based on dialogue.

01:04And this whole thing started because Don Lemon made a carte blanche statement about all Black

01:08people, which is utterly ridiculous.

01:09And you're saying that Black people cannot choose the politics that they want to follow

01:15or choose the political party that they want to be a part of because you want to silo them

01:19into thinking that we all have to be the exact same and think alike.

01:23We are not monolithic.

01:26We all have different backgrounds, we all come from different places.

01:29My military background is my father is a colonel, my sister is a West Point graduate, my brother

01:34is a West Point graduate, I grew up in a very conservative home.

01:37The left has nothing to offer someone like me based on the way that I grew up.

01:42And I'm smart enough to understand that and realize that, and I'm not going to continue

01:45to support the left if it doesn't coincide with the way I believe.

01:50We now have the right to choose whatever we want, and that's what I would tell D.L.