00:00 Vivek Ramaswamy says racism in America is "manufactured in a way that creates more
00:06 racism in this country."
00:09 That's what the GOP presidential candidate told Meet the Press.
00:13 Is there existing racism in the United States?
00:15 Of course there is.
00:16 But those last burning embers of racism, the last thing I want to do is throw kerosene
00:21 on it.
00:22 He told the NBC News program.
00:24 This, following a hate crime shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, that left three black people killed.
00:29 On Friday, Ramaswamy lashed out at Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley over 2019 remarks in
00:36 which she said the Democratic Party doesn't "need any more brown faces that don't want
00:42 to be a brown voice."
00:44 He compared her to "modern grand wizards of the modern KKK," but later said only that
00:51 Ku Klux Klan leaders would be proud of her comments.
