Melvin Watt: “I do not want to get emotional about this. But there are some concepts in this country that we cannot wrap in the flag…”

“I do not want to get emotional about this. But there are some concepts in this country that we cannot wrap in the flag and hold up the flag and defend them and say, we are doing something that is uniquely American. This is not uniquely American. I hope that everybody on both sides of the aisle will understand that. This is not an American concept. It is not something that has parallels in other areas of our life. I just hope that my colleagues will not put our country through this.”