Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) characterized a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Smithsonian as "the Republicans' White Pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing," sparking immediate backlash from conservative peers.
Crockett testified before the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee, the first public congressional scrutiny of Smithsonian leadership since President Donald Trump targeted the institution, according to ABC News.
Her comments followed Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) accusations that the Smithsonian pushes "a racial narrative that divides Americans by their skin color and by guilt."
"Welcome to the Republicans' White Pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing," Crockett told the subcommittee.
The Democratic lawmaker defended the institution's historical accuracy, "It might be uncomfortable for some people on this committee… but facts are facts," she continued.
"And it's a fact that there is a violent, exclusionary, discriminatory, sexist, and racist part of American history," she cited indigenous displacement, lynchings, voter suppression, and the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
"Attacks on the Smithsonian or any other institution that's willing to tell the true history of America is not only an attempt to rewrite history," Crockett said.
Conservative commentators, like Fox's Kyle Becker, demanded her censure. Similarly, Fox News personality Joe Concha mocked her on social media.
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