manager Alexandria Ocasio CortezDN.Y. posted a campaign-style video on social media this week, sparking rumors about her political future. However, conservatives quickly attacked another conversation when they insisted that “we are one.” After years of criticism for playing the politics of identity.
“Don’t let them fool us and think we are enemies. Don’t let us fool us and think we can separate ourselves from rural and urban, black and white, Latina. We are one.” Cortez I said it in the video It has received over 7 million views.
Ocasio-Cortez appears to imply that Republicans are trying to divide America based on race, but the four-term New York lawmaker has a long track record of evoking race in politics.
The words highlighted in this week’s Ocasio-Cortez video spotlighted the equipment of her developing stump speeches to document the crowd with Sen. Bernie Sandersi-vt. , on their “Battle Oligarchy” tour. Progressive Democrats often argued that Republicans would use racial responsiveness as a weapon to stop Democrats’ progress.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Dn.Y. sparked rumors that he could consider the president’s run in 2028 after posting a campaign-style video on social media. (Steven Ferdman/GC image)
“The only chance they have to escape on such unpopular and hurtful agendas is to blow out deep divisions along race, identity and culture,” she said at a rally in Boise, Idaho earlier this month.
During the 2024 presidential election, Ocasio-Cortez He said he was independent “As an elected official who is a prominent woman of color, I have seen a lot,” Vice President Kamala Harris added that she has her own experiences with misogyny and racism.
“I think we are embracing ourselves with some of the unfair misogynistic and racial betrayal, overtones, and explicit attacks on the tacit attacks she has received. And it’s important to keep an eye on not only fairness, but also unfairness,” she said.
Since Ocasio-Cortez was elected in 2018, retiring ten incumbents on behalf of Queens and parts of the Bronx in the U.S. House, she has filled her success by shattering barriers to gender and racial justice in the United States.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.Y., arrives to speak during the “Combodia Oligarchy” tour event at Arizona State University on March 20, 2025 in Tempe, Arizona. (AP photo/Ross D. Franklin)
In her November 2018 victory speech at Queens, Ocasio-Cortez noted that she was the 14th Congressional District of New York, “first person of color, ever represented.” She said she’s 70% of the colours.half of them are working class.
Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest MP, said she was mistaken for an intern or a spouse and used the opportunity to spotlight her prejudice. Social media posts, “Next time, when you talk about being a woman or someone of color, try to believe in women + people of color.”
Black and gay actor Jussy Smollett falsely claimed he was attacked by two men on a cold Chicago night in January 2019, and the man screamed that he was in “Maga Land,” using racist and homophobic slurs, wrapping ropes around his neck and pouring “unknown substances” onto him.
Smollet was sentenced in 2022 for forging a hate crime and lying to Chicago police. Smollett received the support of several Democrats before his allegations, including Ocasio-Cortez, were exposed. He urged Americans to work to change what’s going on in our country, saying it was a “racist and homophobic attack.” Ocasio-Cortez Deleted her promolet tweet When he was convicted of staging a crime.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.Y., heard witness testimony during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Trial with the Mayor of Sanctuary at Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2025. (AP)
between “60 minutes” In a 2019 interview, Ocasio-Cortez labeled President Donald Trump as “racist.”
Later that year, Ocasio-Cortez denounced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for unfairness. Selecting new students The progressive “squad” calls it “explicit singles from newly selected women of color.”
She later revealed that she wasn’t calling Pelosi racists, but claimed that women of color are disproportionately targeted.
But Ocasio-Cortez didn’t refrain from her racist claims when Trump said “squad” should “return” to other countries.
“We don’t leave what we love. When we love this country, it means suggesting a solution that fixes it, she said at a press conference. She later said on social media that it was a “characteristic language of white supremacists,” saying, “Trump feels comfortable leading the GOP to utter racism.”
I-Vt. , Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Dn.Y., have confirmed the cheering crowd at the “Olihead of the Battle” event held in Los Angeles on April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
During the 2020 pandemic, Ocasio-Cortez said on social media that “covid deaths are spikeping disproportionately in black and brown communities,” adding that “chronic victims such as environmental racism, wealth gaps underlie health conditions that link health disparities with racism.
On January 6, 2021, after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram Live that he “didn’t even feel safe around the rest of Congress,” adding that he avoided hiding during the attack “we had canon and white supremacist sympathizers and outspoken white supremacist members in that extraction.”
And after being shot at a Buffalo supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood, she told the post, “White hegemony took countless lives from El Paso to her mother Emmanuel and now Buffalo.
in GQ interviews from that yearOcasio-Cortez reiterated that misogyny and racism have shaped her experience as a politician. “I admit that I sometimes believe I live in a country that I will never allow,” the woman becomes president.
In 2023, Ocasio-Cortez’s views on race and gender came to mind during a viral speech on the House floor in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar before the house voted to oust Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. She said Omar’s expulsion had nothing to do with “condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks,” but “inciting racism and violence against women of this body of color.”
“I shouldn’t say this is about objectivity… this is targeting women of color in the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said he was denounced on the notebook on the table.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will speak on stage on August 19, 2024, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago. (Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez faced a pushback from conservatives as he claimed “We Are One” in this week’s video, and claimed that he designated Americans along racial and ethnic lines in the same video.
Colin Lagg, a conservative influencer and co-owner of trend politics; I responded, “This has to be a joke.
“You capitalized “black” and “Latin” but not “white.” You guys were always pounding on lace stuff. Added to x Amidst a flood of furious replies from conservatives, she questioned why “white” was a low case in her post.
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Since 2020, the AP Style, a standard of preference for American journalism styles, capitalizes “black” to represent “black people,” representing “the history, identity and community shared among those who identify as black people.” AP styles do not capitalize “white”. Because white people “do not share experiences that are discriminated against because of the same history and culture or skin color.” According to the Associated Press.
The Ocasio-Cortez campaign did not respond to a request for comment by Fox News Digital’s Deadline.
