US Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) told Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about hate crimes on Wednesday, to “hide your head in a bag,” according to The Washington Post. The Republican lawmaker spent much of his time questioning whether Berry supports terrorist organizations. In an op-ed published by MSNBC, writer Zeeshan Aleem asserts that while Berry “apprised lawmakers of the need for stronger enforcement of the law to tackle the country’s growing ‘hate crime crisis,” Kennedy used his time “to launch a series of racist attac…
