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这位得克萨斯州共和党议员在周三的听证会上展示了一张对比图，一边是种族隔离时代的场景，另一边是现代投票场景
作者：查尔斯·克赖茨 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年5月21日 美国东部时间下午4:00
韦斯利·亨特痛批南方贫困法律中心资助三K党，抨击民主党“吉姆·克劳2.0”言论
得克萨斯州共和党众议员韦斯利·亨特在周三的一场听证会上痛斥南方贫困法律中心（SPLC），称该左翼团体被指向白人至上主义组织提供资金。与此同时，这位议员还抨击了民主党人的种族言论。
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这位非裔共和党国会议员痛批民主党和南方贫困法律中心，称他们一直在宣扬早已被摒弃的种族主义陈词滥调，并讲述了自己的父亲如何经历了远比当下美国人所经历的更严重的真正偏见。
得克萨斯州共和党众议员韦斯利·亨特周三出席了众议院司法委员会的一场听证会，会上审议了南方贫困法律中心是否通过向三K党等种族主义和极端组织提供资金，从而“扭曲民权政策”，以及此类资助是否加剧了美国的极端主义威胁。
亨特在发言伊始指出，“民主党阵营”当下的主流论调是“吉姆·克劳2.0在美国依然盛行”，当时他身旁正展示着一张对比图：一边是一名黑人男子站在“有色人种专用”标识旁，另一边是一名选民向投票工作人员出示身份证件。
“我相信南方贫困法律中心的一些行径确实帮助他们提出了这一论调，”他说道，随后转向退休的范德堡大学法律与政治学教授卡罗尔·斯韦恩——她同样是非裔美国人——并询问她上次在田纳西州投票时是否遭遇过真正的“吉姆·克劳”待遇。
帕特尔与民权活动家痛批南方贫困法律中心，此前司法部指控该团体资助其宣称要打击的“恶棍”
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“你是否曾被棒球棒、消防水带或狗威胁过？”亨特问道。斯韦恩回答说，她唯一感到紧张的时刻是在民主党占多数的选区索要共和党选票时。
亨特感谢斯韦恩的证词，随后转向身旁的对比图片。
“对于我所有的民主党同僚，以及所有无休止地叫嚷‘吉姆·克劳2.0’的左翼人士——让我们花点时间回顾一下真正的吉姆·克劳是什么。吉姆·克劳时代，美国黑人不能和白人同教室上课；有色人种专用饮水 fountain；街头遭殴打；私刑。”
亨特表示，真正的吉姆·克劳时代，他的父亲在新奥尔良长大时，因为不能像白人一样从正门进入餐厅，只能走后门去买三明治。
“这正是将那个合法化歧视和种族恐怖的时代与在投票站出示身份证件相提并论，是如此令人反感的原因。”
“而且更令人反感的是……像这类团体制造虚假仇恨，”亨特在谈及南方贫困法律中心时说道。
白宫抨击查克·舒默的吉姆·克劳言论：“专业的误导者”
在这场没有南方贫困法律中心代表参与的听证会上，民权与人类权利领导会议首席执行官玛雅·威利为该团体辩护，称共和党人的攻击“不过是针对民权组织的更大规模、有组织攻击的一部分”。
南方贫困法律中心付钱给种族主义者让他们当种族主义者：众议员吉姆·乔丹
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轮到亨特发言时，他声称那些宣扬“吉姆·克劳2.0”来谴责他们不同意的政治政策的民主党人，这么做是因为这是他们保持存在感的唯一途径。
“民主党靠制造不满生存。民主党人援引过去的痛苦，因为他们对当下毫无建树。他们不想进行诚实的辩论。他们想要情感操纵。他们想要愤怒。他们想要分裂，正如我们今天在这场听证会上的讨论所证明的那样。”
亨特表示，他和众议院其他现任非裔共和党议员——犹他州众议员伯吉斯·欧文斯、密歇根州众议员约翰·詹姆斯和佛罗里达州众议员拜伦·唐纳兹——都代表白人占多数的选区，他称这一点驳斥了左翼在这一问题上的论调。
“没人在乎我们的外貌。我们不是以肤色，而是以品格的优劣来被评判，因为我们已经远离了那个时代，”他指着另一张对比图说道，一边是种族隔离时代的场景，另一边是投票场景。
“我想继续沿着美国以耶稣基督之名开辟的道路前进，”他说道。
“现在不是1960年，而是2026年。而像这样的团体竟然愿意通过资助三K党来煽动仇恨的火焰。”
随后他将发言权交还给众议院司法委员会主席、俄亥俄州共和党人吉姆·乔丹。
共和党在州和联邦层面通过的几项最新选举诚信相关政策被指责为少数族裔投票设置了新的吉姆·克劳式障碍。
查克·舒默此前相关指控落空后再称《拯救法案》为“吉姆·克劳”引反弹
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最引人注目的当属佐治亚州的《选举诚信法案》，民主党人和美国职业棒球大联盟曾因该州议会通过此类法案而呼吁抵制亚特兰大。
在所谓的1960年代种族隔离主义基调并未出现后，包括密西西比州参议员罗杰·威克在内的此类政策的支持者指出，民主党人的喧嚣声突然消失了。
“这些声音现在奇怪地沉默了，因为他们的可怕预测已被证明是错误的。两周前，佐治亚州举行了新选举法生效后的首次初选，非但没有‘压制’投票，反而出现了创纪录的投票率，”威克在2022年的一份声明中说道。
尽管民主党选民支持，查克·舒默仍坚称共和党投票法案是“吉姆·克劳2.0”
“提前投票人数较2018年增长近三倍，较2020年总统大选年增长逾一倍。少数族裔提前投票人数也大幅攀升，非裔选民提前投票人数较2018年增加了10万多张。所有这些想必让那些被灌输错误信息的选民感到意外，”威克补充道。
在听证会上，众议院司法委员会排名成员、马里兰州民主党人杰米·拉斯金却为南方贫困法律中心涉案的“线人项目”辩护，称该项目与执法部门分享了涉及种族仇恨恐怖阴谋的信息，并补充说他没有看到证据表明该团体的捐助者被欺骗。
“欺诈在哪里？他们的诉讼在哪里？”他问道。
“吉姆·克劳2.0”这一说法仍被频繁使用，这表明亨特所指出的分歧在某些政治阵营中仍然存在，预示着未来在这一问题上的不确定性。
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WATCH: Wesley Hunt flips script on Dems’ ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ attacks amid heated SPLC racism hearing
2026-05-21 4:00pm EDT / Fox News
The Texas Republican pointed to a split image of segregation-era scenes alongside modern voting at a Wednesday hearing
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published May 21, 2026 4:00pm EDT
Wesley Hunt excoriates SPLC for funding KKK, blasting Democrats for Jim Crow 2.0 claims
Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, excoriated the Southern Poverty Law Center during a Wednesday hearing focused on the left-wing group’s alleged funding of White supremacist organizations, while the lawmaker also targeted Democrats’ racial rhetoric.
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A Black Republican congressman excoriated Democrats and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for allegedly perpetuating racist tropes he said had long faded while recounting how his father endured true bigotry in ways far worse than what Americans experience today.
Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, joined a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday examining the role the SPLC allegedly played in “distorting civil rights policy” by funneling money to racist and extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and whether that funding elevated extremist threats in America.
Hunt began his remarks by noting the idea du jour in the “Democrat hive” is that “Jim Crow 2.0 is alive and well in America” as he sat beside a split image of a Black man standing near a “Colored” sign and a person handing over identification to poll workers.
“I’m sure some of the SPLC’s actions have helped them make this argument,” he said before turning to retired Vanderbilt law and political science professor Carol Swain — who is also Black — and asking her if she experienced any true “Jim Crow” treatment when she last voted in Tennessee.
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“Were you intimidated in any way with baseball bats, fire hoses or dogs?” Hunt asked, as Swain replied that the only nervousness she felt was when asking for a Republican ballot in a Democrat-heavy precinct.
Hunt thanked Swain for her testimony and turned to the contrasting image beside him.
“For all my Democrat colleagues, everyone on the left screaming ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ ad infinitum — let’s take a moment to revisit what actual Jim Crow was. Jim Crow was a time when Black Americans could not sit in classrooms with White Americans. It was colored-only water fountains; it was beatings in the streets; it was lynchings.”
Hunt said true Jim Crow was when his father had to go to the back door of restaurants growing up in New Orleans in order to get a sandwich because he could not go in the front like Whites.
“That is precisely why it is so offensive to compare that era of legalized discrimination and racial terror to showing a photo ID at the voting booth.”
“And it is offensive that… groups like these manufacture faux hate,” Hunt said of the SPLC.
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During the hearing, which did not feature the SPLC itself, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights CEO Maya Wiley defended the group, saying attacks from Republicans are “nothing more than part of a larger, broader, coordinated attack on civil rights organizations.”
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When it was his turn to speak, Hunt alleged that Democrats who tout the phrase “Jim Crow 2.0” to condemn political policies they disagree with do so because it is the only way they can stay relevant.
“The Democrat Party survives on manufacturing grievance. Democrats invoke the pain of the past because they have nothing to offer for the present. They don’t want an honest debate. They want emotional manipulation. They want outrage. They want division, as evidenced by our discussion in this very hearing today.”
Hunt said that he and the other sitting Black Republicans in the House — Reps. Burgess Owens of Utah, John James of Michigan and Byron Donalds of Florida — all represent White-majority districts, which he said disproves notions from the left on the matter.
“Nobody cares about what we look like. We are being judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character because we’ve come a long way from this,” he said, pointing to another split image of a segregation-era scene transposed next to a voting scene.
“I want to continue on the path that America has set forth in the name of Jesus Christ,” he said.
“This is not 1960 anymore, it’s 2026. And the fact that groups like these are willing to stroke the flames of hate by funding the KKK.”
He then yielded back to Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Several recent election integrity and related policies enacted by Republicans at the state and federal level have been accused of being newfound Jim Crow roadblocks for minorities.
SCHUMER FACES BACKLASH AFTER CALLING SAVE ACT ‘JIM CROW’ DESPITE PREVIOUS ALLEGATION FALLING FLAT
Chuck Schumer calls voter ID bill ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ vows to fight ‘tooth and nail’ to block ithttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6389402318112
The most memorable is likely Georgia’s Election Integrity Act, in which Democrats and Major League Baseball sought boycotts of Atlanta for the legislature passing such a bill.
After a 1960s-era segregationist tenor failed to materialize, proponents of such policies, including Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, noted the Democratic din suddenly dissipated.
“These voices have gone strangely silent now that their dire predictions have proved false. Two weeks ago, Georgia held its first election primaries since the new election law took effect, and far from ‘suppressing’ the vote, there was record turnout,” Wicker said in a 2022 statement.
SCHUMER DOUBLES DOWN ON GOP VOTING BILL ‘JIM CROW 2.0’ DESPITE DEMOCRATIC VOTER SUPPORT
Rep. Wesley Hunt, right, shows a poster contrasting true “Jim Crow” and what some Democrats call “Jim Crow 2.0” – showing an ID to vote.(Fox News)
“Early voting increased nearly threefold from 2018 and more than doubled from 2020, a presidential election year. Minority early voting soared as well, with African American voters casting over 100,000 more early ballots than in 2018. All of this must have come as a surprise to voters who had been fed misinformation,” Wicker added.
At the hearing, ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., however, defended SPLC’s “informant program” at issue, which he said shared information about racially charged terror plots with law enforcement and added that he has seen no proof the group’s donors were being deceived.
“Where is the fraud? Where are their lawsuits?” he asked.
The fact the phrase Jim Crow 2.0 continues to be bandied about shows that the divisions cited by Hunt still resonate in some political corners, portending uncertainty into the future on the matter.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
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Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.
