Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York delivered a dire warning Friday about the damage of whitewashing the bigotry of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was murdered last week.

Her speech came on the same day the House passed a GOP-backed resolution to honor Kirk as a “courageous American patriot.”

“We can deeply disagree and come together as a country to denounce the horror of this killing, and it is not a license for the abuse of power and whitewashing of American history,” she said. “Today's resolution only underscores the majority's recklessness.”

“We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “A man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted Black Americans the right to vote was a mistake. Who, after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi, clai

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