Tim Scott loves to blame Black people for their own racial, social and economic plightβdespite Americaβs racist history being the reason for what we have endured. Tuesday night, during the second Republican debate hosted by Fox Business Network, he doubled down and said even more asinine things.
The two-hour debate was pretty painful to watch and became even more unbearable when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was asked to explain his stateβs new Black history curriculum which says Black people benefitted from slavery because they were able to βdevelop skills.β
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βOur countryβs education system is in decline because itβs focused on indoctrination,β DeSantis said. βWe eliminated critical race theory, and we now have American civics and the Constitution in our schools in a really big way.β
He also claimed that the new curriculum was βwritten by descendants of slavesβ βmeaning the two conservative Black men who serve on the state board that approved it saw nothing wrong. Thatβs when Scott chimed in.
βThere is not a redeeming quality in slavery,β Scott stated. He then said America overcame it and that βwe are the greatest nation on Earth because we faced our demons in the mirror and made a decision.β
He continued: βBlack families survived slavery. We survived poll taxes and literacy tests. We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country.β
Scottβs seemingly changed rhetoric was put back on course when he said βAmerica is not a racist countryβ and then decided to disparage Black families and insist that welfare was more damning to Black folks than slavery.
βWhat was hard to survive was Johnsonβs βGreat Society,β where they decided to put moneyβ where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail.β
Not only is that factually inaccurate, itβs continues to show how far Scott will go to win over conservative voters. Heβs at 2 percent in the national polling average and clearly will do whatever it takes to change thisβeven if it means once again disrespecting the hell out of Black folks.
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