“They said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.”

— J. C. Watts

On declining to join the Congressional Black Caucus. Hannity & Colmes (1997)

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