{"id":170,"date":"2021-10-25T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/?p=170"},"modified":"2021-10-26T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:48:44","slug":"black-puerto-rican-caucus-demands-state-representative-anne-dauphinais-stop-anti-semitic-comments-and-gop-leaders-address-ongoing-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/bprc\/2021\/10\/25\/black-puerto-rican-caucus-demands-state-representative-anne-dauphinais-stop-anti-semitic-comments-and-gop-leaders-address-ongoing-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Black & Puerto Rican Caucus Demands State Representative Anne Dauphinais Stop Anti-Semitic Comments And GOP Leaders Address Ongoing Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HARTFORD<\/strong>\n– The Black and Puerto Rican Caucus is demanding Connecticut State\nRepresentative Anne Dauphinais <\/strong>(R-Killingly\/Plainfield) refrain from making\nany further hateful remarks and to apologize immediately for her anti-Semitic\nstatements made in response to the vaccine requirement for state employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep.\nDauphinais (R-Killingly\/Plainfield) continued to double down on her\nanti-Semitic rhetoric during an “America First Rally” in Plainfield\non Saturday in which the controversial U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor\nGreene<\/strong> (R-Georgia) was the headline speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We\nknow what happened in the 30’s when that started happening to a community of\npeople. They were taken out of their jobs and they were segregated and\ndiscriminated against,” Rep. Dauphinais said to the crowd. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nit is troubling that Rep. Dauphinais continues to make these types of remarks\nunapologetically, it is even more shocking the degree to which her remarks on\nSaturday not only make an insensitive comparison to one of the worst atrocities\nin modern history, it also makes light of the horror and inhumanity experienced\nby Holocaust victims and survivors.  In other words, it is a slap in the\nface to Holocaust survivors and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis also concerning to see Rep. Dauphinais use terms like “segregated”\nand “discriminated” without a complete understanding of their meaning\nand history. To use this type of language in relation to a public health\nmandate, in which people have options for compliance, is ignorant of and\ninsensitive to the decades of racial discrimination and oppression faced by\nBlack Americans because of the color of their skin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday’s\nremarks in Plainfield follow similar statements by Rep. Dauphinais earlier this\nmonth, comparing the emergency orders by Governor Lamont to actions by Adolf\nHitler, a despot responsible for the genocide of millions of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, Rep. Dauphinais’ hateful speech is\nnot the first time this year that a state legislator has made insensitive\ncomments which demean and belittle the experiences of others. State<\/strong>\nRepresentative<\/strong> Gale Mastrofrancesco<\/strong> (R-Southington\/Wolcott), also\nspeaking on the actions of the\ngovernor, invoked the murder of George Floyd and compared his dying words,\n“I can’t breathe” to children being required to wear a mask in school\nto protect against the spread of COVID-19 in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These\ntypes of remarks inspire hate and cause division. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nBPRC is calling on Reps. Dauphinais and Mastrofrancesco, and any others who\nwould follow their example, to put an end to this insensitive and hateful\nrhetoric. We are also demanding Republican leaders in Connecticut address this\nongoing behavior in their party and help stop any further comments from being\nmade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hateful\nand divisive speech has no place in our state legislature or in the civil\ndiscourse we must have to debate and pass legislation for betterment of our\nstate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, the BPRC membership stands\nready and willing to work with our colleagues in both chambers and parties on\nall matters, legislative and otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Representative\nGeraldo Reyes (D-Waterbury), BPRC Chairman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Representative Bobby Gibson (D-Bloomfield\/Windsor),\nBPRC Vice Chairman<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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