Steve King on Complaints About ‘White People’: What Other Group Has Contributed More to Western Civilization?

On MSNBC today, Congressman Steve King reacted to a fellow panelist’s comment about white people by saying something kind of unbelievable.

Esquire‘s Charles Pierce talked about “old white people” commanding the GOP and said that the halls of the RNC convention are filled with “loud, unhappy, dissatisfied white people.”

And this is what King proceeded to say:

“This whole ‘white people’ business, though, does get a little tired, Charlie. I mean, I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about? Where did any other sub-group of people contribute to civilization?”

Chris Hayes jumped in to ask, “Than white people?” King peddled back a bit and spoke about just “Western civilization itself” and places where Christianity has had a foothold.

You can watch the panel’s reaction to that in the video above, via MSNBC.

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