On Saturday, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) made an appearance on MSNBC to say the impeachment of President Trump is needed “to deal with slavery.”

“We have to deal with slavery. Slavery was the thing that put all of what President Trump has done lately into motion. It’s insidious racism, the President has played on racism and he’s used that as a weapon to galvanize a base of support to mobilize people,” said Green.

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Rep. Al Green (D-TX) wrote a memo to the House members requesting to add President Trump’s “racism” in the impeachment articles. Green reminded them the House passed a resolution last July condemning the president for his “racist comments” about the four Democratic congresswomen of color.

The “racist comments” Green was referring to are President Trump’s tweets when he suggested that the four congresswomen should stop criticizing the government and “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.”

Green wrote in the memo to Congress:

“How will history judge this Congress that passed a resolution indicating President Trump made harmful, racist comments if it does not impeach him for his impeachable racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, transphobic, xenophobic language instigating enmity and inciting violence within our society?”

Green was the first Democrat to call for the president’s impeachment in May 2017, and has formally brought forward impeachment three times.

Green argued that impeachment, as our founders would define it, doesn’t require a crime. Green noted the articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson in 1868 focused on Johnson’s comments that were described as “peculiarly indecent and unbecoming.” Johnson blamed Congress for racial violence in the New Orleans Massacre of 1866 which left 48 people dead and injured 200, all African-Americans.

In Green’s memo to Congress, he also stated President Trump’s remarks encouraged the mass shooting in August in El Paso, Texas.

“President Trump’s incitive climate of hate motivated the white supremacist who committed the El Paso massacre, where he killed some 22 persons and injured some 24 others,” wrote Green. “If the congressional Republicans of 1868 impeached President Johnson for his abusive, incitive, racist comments causing harm, why can’t the Congress of 2019 impeach President Trump for his abusive, incitive, racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, transphobic comments causing harm to society?”

Last week, Green got upset that “not one person of color” was asked to testify during the first day of the impeachment hearings, and expressed his disapproval to House members in a speech before the hearing began.

“What subliminal message are we sending to the world when we have experts but not one person of color? Are we saying that there are no people of color who are experts on this topic of impeachment?” said Green.

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Back in May, Green stated, “If we don’t impeach this president, he will get reelected.”

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Last Thursday, Green told his colleagues in case the Senate does not vote to convict the President, they can impeach Trump again because there is “no limit” to the number of times they can impeach the president.

Green has served as a member of the House of Representatives for 14 years. His term ends in 2021.