Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests Ronald Reagan's policies towards black people and minorities were 'racist'
The New York lawmaker, while speaking about her Green New Deal and Medicare for All, also called the country's current state as "garbage"
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday argued that former President Ronald Reagan's policies were racist because they "pitted" the white working class against African-Americans and Hispanics, the Daily Mail reported.
The youngest congresswoman however did not call Reagan a racist explicitly.
AOC, during a one-hour interview at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, also slammed former President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, calling it a "racist policy" that benefited whites over minorities.
FDR's New Deal, which was introduced in 1933, during the Great Depression, created varying public work projects, financial reforms and regulation to assist the country's economy.