AOC’s Latest Gaffe: ‘White Companies’ Helped Hurricanes Kill ‘Black and Brown Lives’

Wednesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on civil rights and liberties saw congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ruthlessly attacking “predominantly white” companies for their alleged roles in climate change.

“The people that are producing climate change, the folks that are responsible for the largest amount of emissions, or communities, or corporations, they tend to be predominantly white, correct?” the congresswoman asked during her attacks on the companies, blaming them for the losses of “predominantly black and brown lives” in storms and hurricanes.

“My own grandfather died in the aftermath of [2017’s] Hurricane Maria. We can’t act as though the inertia and history of colonization doesn’t play a role in this,” she added.

Although she truly believes her words, many have responded in both a respectful, but what seems to be as well an irritated manner to AOC’s statement, laying out various arguments from pure facts about the calamities to basic human nature:

“Yes, and every study backs that up I know no one is intentionally trying to kill people and hurt people,” National Wildlife Federation’s Mustafa Ali said in response.

“Let’s talk about the massive violation of civil liberties that will occur if we do as Elizabeth Warren has said, and ban fracking. Let’s crush the American economy and crush the jobs not only in Texas but around the United States, and ban fracking in a fit of hysteria, undermining the very civil liberties of the Americans that depend on that affordable and available abundant energy,” Rep. Chip Roy said in response, also previously mentioning that the deadliest hurricane that North America has ever seen still remains the Great Galveston Storm, with estimated losses between 6,000 and 12,000 people in the 1900’s, also adding that this was an event way before climate change was a topic of discussion.

Roy also said that it seems like the Wednesday hearing only happened to “stir up a media frenzy” and “provide a storyline for the current court case in New York.”