Via The Hill:
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday charged that a handful of House members have a sense of “racial superiority.”
Rangel appeared to double down on comments he made last week that some Republicans think “slavery isn’t over.”
Rangel, in an interview Wednesday afternoon on CNN, said that despite the country having a black president and an “explosive number” of African-American and other minority members of Congress, race remains an issue among a “handful” of Republicans.
“We all know who they are and where they’re from. So maybe ‘slavery’ was the wrong word, but racial superiority, unfortunately, is the disease that a handful of people have, and they were holding back the Republican majority in the House of Representatives,” Rangel said.