Brooks said Democrats appeal to voters based on skin color “on a regular basis.” Brooks: Dems wage 'war on whites'

Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks repeatedly accused Democrats of waging a “war on whites” in a pair of interviews Monday, saying they use the tactic in campaigns and on the issue of immigration.

“What the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant,” Brooks said in an interview with AL.com.


By Democrats soliciting votes of people “based on skin color, they in turn are attacking whites based on skin color and that’s wrong. Nobody should be attacked based on skin color,” the Alabama congressman said.

Brooks’ comments to AL.com echoed those he made during an appearance earlier Monday on Laura Ingraham’s radio program, in which he extended his criticism to the Obama campaigns, saying a strategy to divide was “implemented” by President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

“This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else,” Brooks told Ingraham.

“That characterization’s a little out there,” Ingraham responded. The conservative radio host said Democrats have played the race card as well as waging a war on women, but to Brooks’ comments she added, “I just think that phraseology might not be the best choice.”

However, Brooks said in his interview with AL.com that Democrats appeal to voters based on skin color “on a regular basis,” specifically singling out Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, who defeated his primary challenger, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, in June.

“Rangel made it a fight between blacks and Hispanics,” said the congressman, who is white.

“As best I can in the time limitations I have, I try to make sure people understand what the Democrats are doing by raising race as an issue every chance they get,” Brooks said, when asked if his message would get lost, according to AL.com.

He continued, “It’s high time folks started calling out the Democrats for their racial appeals.”

AL.com is the website of the Alabama Media Group.