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Trump Ally Laura Loomer Condemned Over Racist Attacks on Black Officials

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  • Lawmakers and rights advocates condemned Laura Loomer after she used racist and abusive language against Florida state Representative Angie Nixon and other prominent Black women.
  • Loomer repeated her attacks on X after earlier comments drew widespread criticism.
  • The controversy comes after Nixon won an upset victory in Florida’s Democratic primary race for the US Senate.

Laura Loomer’s attacks on Black women in US politics have drawn condemnation from lawmakers and civil rights advocates, but the Trump ally has continued to repeat them.

Angie Nixon is a ghetto, black, communist

— Laura LoomerLoomer made the comment about Florida state Representative Angie Nixon on X.

On Monday, Loomer called Florida state Representative Angie Nixon “a ghetto, black, communist” on X. The remark followed an earlier post in which she described Nixon, Representatives Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, former Representative Cori Bush and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as “ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black BITCHES who are completely unfit for the power they hold.”

You attack and insult Black women because you believe peddling racism is good for your clicks and your business model

— Wes MooreThe Maryland governor condemned Loomer’s attacks.

Nixon recently won an upset victory in Florida’s Democratic primary race for the US Senate. Loomer’s comments also revived scrutiny of her long record of anti-Muslim remarks, including calls to bar Muslims from holding office and to deport “all Muslims from America.”

stone-cold racist

— Hakeem JeffriesThe House Minority Leader described Loomer in response to her comments.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore accused Loomer of attacking Black women to generate attention and support her business model. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called her a “stone-cold racist,” while civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Black women should never face such rhetoric for seeking public office. The Council on American-Islamic Relations described the comments as “the very definition of anti-Black racism.”

The very definition of anti-Black racism

— Council on American-Islamic RelationsThe organization characterized Loomer’s remarks.
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