Former U.S. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) in 2011. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Former Rep. Allen West and Tea Party favorite who once said President Obama wants Americans to be his slaves, invoked D.C. in his speech at today’s Faith and Freedom Coalition conference to make an offensive point about progressive social policies. How fun!

When discussing President Obama’s social policies, West, a Republican who represented Florida for one term, told the predominately white crowd, according to the National Journal:

Some of you maybe will leave this beautiful hotel where you’re having this conference and go into some of the black neighborhoods here in Washington, D.C., and see the decimation of progressive socialist policies that have broken down the family unit in what used to be the strongest family community that this great country ever knew.

Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon has more details from the speech:

Since leaving Congress, West has focused on revitalizing the black community through a conservative agenda of family promotion and smaller government.

He blamed most of the the troubles that have befallen African Americans on the legacy of Lyndon Johnson’s administration. Pointing to a man who had 22 children with 17 women, West said it was an example of “the unintended consequences and second and third order effects” of LBJ’s Great Society and War on Poverty. Johnson also signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts into law.

West previously used D.C. as an example of an area not hard hit by the recession, as compared to his state of Florida. He told David Gregory, “You walk around here in Washington, D.C., you don’t see people getting laid off, you don’t see, you know, anyone suffering, you don’t see the foreclosures.”

You can’t have it both ways, Allen West!

Request for comment from Mayor Vince Gray’s office has not been returned.