FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE,
ROBERT ME NENNENDEZ.
WHAT DO YOU THINK HIS CHANCES
ARE NOW?
>> I WAS STRUCK BY SO MANY
POINTS THAT CONGRESSWOMAN
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ MADE
AND SO POWERFULLY THANKING TED
YOHO FOR PROVING, PROVING, WHO
DOES THIS KIND OF THING, THAT
MEN WHO DO THIS KIND OF THING
ARE MEN OF POWER, THEY ARE
HUSBANDS, THEY ARE FATHERS OF
DAUGHTERS.
THERE IS NOW THE PROOF THAT NONE
OF THOSE THINGS, NONE OF THOSE
FACTORS IN A MAN’S LIFE ARE
DEFENSES AGAINST THESE KINDS OF
ACCUSATIONS, WHICH HAVE BEEN
PROVEN IN THIS CASE.
>> WELL, NOT ONLY IS IT NOT A
DEFENSE, BUT IT’S ALSO NOT
SOMETHING YOU SHOULD SAY, THAT
WOMEN ARE DESERVING OF A LIST OF
RIGHTS BECAUSE THEY’RE OUR
DAUGHTERS AND OUR WIVES AND OUR
SISTERS.
WOMEN ARE DESERVING OF EQUAL
RIGHTS AND DIGNITY BECAUSE THEY
ARE PEOPLE.
I THINK WHAT ALEXANDRIA
OCASIO-CORTEZ DID TODAY BY
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER IN THIS
MOMENT IS SHE SPOKE FOR SO MANY
WOMEN WHO HAVE WALKED AROUND NEW
YORK CITY OR OTHER PLACES IN
AMERICA AND BEEN CALLED THESE
NAMES FOR NOT SMILING, SMILING
BUT NOT FOR LONG ENOUGH,
RESPONDING BUT NOT THE
APPROPRIATE WAY, NOT STANDING
LONG ENOUGH, BASICALLY NOT
RESPONDING THE WAY THE MAN --
THAT PARTICULAR MAN WHO IS A
STRANGER TO YOU WANTS YOU TO
RESPOND.
AND THAT IS THE DAILY IG
DIGNITIES, THOSE ARE THE DAILY
INDIGNITIES THAT WOMEN HAVE TO
OVERCOME EVERY SINGLE DAY TO
REACH POSITIONS OF POWER.
I THINK WHAT ALEXANDRIA
OCASIO-CORTEZ REPRESENTS IN THIS
MOMENT IS SPEAKING TO THAT
TRUTH, THAT IT DOESN’T ACTUALLY
MATTER HOW HIGH YOU RISE.
YOU STILL CAN BE DEHUMANIZED IN
THIS SOCIETY, AND THAT’S THE
CULTURE SHIFT THAT WE NEED.
