U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) joined the Democrats’ fearmongering over the midterm elections, recently claiming that a loss for his party in November will send black Americans “back in the cotton fields.”
The Georgia lawmaker claimed Republicans are waging a war against black people and Democrats need to fight back during an interview on the #RolandMartinUnfiltered broadcast.
“You know, Trump used to talk about how good he had been to black folks in terms of job creation. It was lies then. But now we’re losing jobs under Trump. Instead of him creating jobs or his administration creating jobs, they’re losing jobs, and black folks are disproportionately losing those jobs,” Johnson claimed.
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“It’s a GOP war on black America, and if we don’t stand up and fight back, we’re going to be back in the cotton fields,” Johnson continued, before noting what he meant by “fighting back.”
“And when I talk about fighting back, I’m not talking about taking up arms. I’m talking about taking it to the streets in protest, and also by exercising our precious right to vote,” said the Democrat who once famously suggested Guam might “tip over and capsize.”
“We’re going to have to get out in November and vote, like John Lewis said, like our lives depend on it, because our lives do depend on it this time,” he added.
The claims were similar to those Johnson made earlier this year when he contended that President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement wanted a return to slavery.
“The ways in which they can kill public education, from defunding it from a federal level, and then also enabling state monies and local monies to flow into the private for-profit school setup,” he said at the time, claiming it was a “recipe to make education unavailable to black people.”
Rep Hank Johnson (D) suggests Trump is trying to bring back slavery and have Black people “back to… picking cotton” pic.twitter.com/g0fGB1IPfN
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 6, 2025
“And where does that then leave us? It puts us back to when America was great, and we were picking cotton and all of it…,” Johnson said.
“But they would have us back confined to doing that kind of work,” he claimed. “So we gotta watch out for where we are headed, and it’s the people that will save our democracy, that will stop this movement towards the past that Trump has us hurtling towards.”
Johnson’s latest alarm over slavery was met with mockery on social media.
Democrats put you on the cotton fields, kept you there, fought a civil war to keep you there, created KKK, segregation, Jim Crow, etc. And you want to vote for them????? Sheesh!
— Edwardo Sanchez (@SanchezEdw57506) July 2, 2026
Can’t wait to see white liberal democrats pick cotton! @DNC @RNCResearch pic.twitter.com/yjkg3yFhx7
— Vernon Jones (@VernonForGA) July 4, 2026
The traditional Democrat Plantation election year threat.
— GTA Reagan (@Guestst81199561) July 3, 2026
This guy has the lowest IQ in Congress and that’s saying a lot given who is in Congress
— HollyBelle (@hollybellenoel) July 3, 2026
Hank Johnson has long been known as the dumbest person in Congress. He seems determined to keep his title.
— WillyB46 (@b46_willy4581) July 5, 2026
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