This from a Black Republican?
It was delivered by Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican senator, who spoke to a national television audience about his personal story of escaping poverty and his fervent belief in the power of free enterprise.
Scott slammed Democrats for not moving more swiftly to reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, praised former president Donald Trump’s efforts to develop a vaccine, declaring that Biden “inherited a tide that had already turned,” criticized their approach to race relations as fighting “discrimination with different discrimination,” and defended the GOP’s effort to restrict voting in numerous states after Biden’s victory….
image…Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) walks through the Senate subway to vote on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
Ted Cruz says he won’t take any moreCorporate money in his campaign .
Wonder how he’ll vote on corporate tax increases.
Let me guess…
No!
“To suggest that there aren’t racial challenges and patterns is for someone to be blind.”
Tim Scott
Time magazine ,June 16 2020,page 6
I wonder if remembers this?
KNEW THIS was coming at Scott….
The phrase “Uncle Tim” trended briefly on Twitter Wednesday night following Scott’s speech, in which he said he’s been called an “Uncle Tom” in the past. The derogatory term comes from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
“You know this stuff is wrong. Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” Scott said in his speech. “It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.”…
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