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WATCH: Wesley Hunt flips script on Dems' 'Jim Crow 2.0' attacks amid heated SPLC racism hearing

A Black Republican congressman excoriated Democrats and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for allegedly perpetuating racist tropes he said had long faded while recounting how his father endured true bigotry in ways far worse than what Americans experience today.Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, joined a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday examining the role the SPLC allegedly played in "distorting civil rights policy" by funneling money to racist and extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and whether that funding elevated extremist threats in America.Hunt began his remarks by noting t...