It was, simply put, shameful.
During debate on the floor of the North Carolina House Wednesday, a white legislator interrupted his Black colleague, asking if he would have attended an Ivy League school had he not been “an athlete or a minority.”
Rep. Abe Jones, a Democrat from Raleigh, was debating the controversial private school voucher bill when he was interrupted by Rep. Jeff McNeely, a Iredell County Republican, who rose to ask Jones a question.
