Steve King: ‘I Don't Know’ If It Was a Mistake for GOP Leaders to Skip Selma
The lawmaker cites his feeling of being unwelcome by the Congressional Black Caucus as an example of “cultural frictions.”
Rep. Steve King on Selma and the Congressional Black Caucus
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Representative Steve King declined to say whether it was a mistake for leading Republicans to skip Saturday’s commemoration of the Selma march, but said that “cultural friction” lingers in the country.
“I don’t know if it’s a mistake, but there is still that bit of cultural friction that’s there,” the Iowa Republican said Saturday during an interview with Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin at the Iowa Agricultural Summit in Des Moines. He suggested that the friction makes some people feel unwelcome in certain situtations.