Congressman Steve King (R-IA) added his voice to the growing chorus of white nationalists around the world when he tweeted: “culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.” This is a well-known white nationalist phrase touting white civilization as a “superior civilization.”

Rather than walk back his outrageous comments he doubled down in a radio interview by promoting Steve Bannon’s favorite book, The Camp of the Saints - a breathtakingly vile anti-immigration book meant to justify lethal violence against non-white people.

As a Black woman, it terrifies me to imagine that someone who promotes the mass extermination of any community could control the destiny of our country and be allowed to create a more hostile place for my or anyone’s babies. Steve King is incapable of representing all Americans, and he has no right to oversee the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. It’s more than time for Paul Ryan to put the wellbeing of our country ahead of his party and remove Steve King now.