Sen. Tim Scott is running for president of the United States. “Love, unconditional love, binds hearts together,” he declared Monday.
While Democrats, not surprisingly, oppose the South Carolina Republican on most issues, they refuse to acknowledge that his announcement’s warm reception among Republicans shows that black Americans Have Overcome or, at least, Are Overcoming.
Citing “systemic racism,” Joy Behar of ABC’s “The View,” said that Scott “doesn’t get it. Neither does [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas], and that’s why they’re Republicans.”
Duke University professor of African and African American studies Mark Anthony Neal stated ungrammatically via Twitter, “Tim Scott acting like he the only Black person in America who had a parent or grandparent who worked 16-hour days … at minimum wages.”
Self-proclaimed “Progressive, Attorney, Democrat” Ed Hull slimed Scott, via Twitter: “#UncleTimISAnUncleTom.”
Despite the Democratic Left’s racist trivialization of the South Carolina senator’s achievements—which it spares whites—Scott has labored for all that he has achieved, often while breaking barriers.
Tim Scott was no child of privilege. His single, working-class mother reared him and his brother in modest North Charleston. After floundering in high school, a local Chick-fil-A manager mentored him. Scott focused and—after college—flourished in insurance.
After serving on Charleston’s County Council and in the state legislature, Scott ran for Congress in 2010. If the white supremacists—whom Leftists see everywhere—wished to oppress Scott, that was their chance. Instead, Scott won 68% in a GOP primary runoff versus 32% for Paul Thurmond, the white son of the late Dixiecrat governor and U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond.
Then-Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, appointed Scott to the U.S. Senate seat that Jim DeMint vacated to run The Heritage Foundation. That made Scott the first black Southern senator since 1881, when former slave Blanche Kelso Bruce, R-Miss., departed. That happened soon after white supremacists torpedoed the Republican policy of Reconstruction and launched the Democratic Party’s 83-yearlong War on Blacks, aka Jim Crow segregation.
Sen. Scott decisively keeps winning reelection.
In a 2014 special election, Scott defeated Democrat Joyce Dickerson 61% to 37%. In 2016, Scott defeated Democrat Thomas Dixon, also 61% to 37%. In 2022, Scott trounced Democrat Krystie Matthews, 63% to 37%.
In stunning contrast, the “pro-black” Democratic Party had 140 years to appoint or elect a black Southern senator. Alas, it could not be bothered. It did not accomplish that until Georgia’s Raphael Warnock won a January 2021 runoff—11 years after Scott became senator.
Democrats want blacks to shut up and vote for Democrats. They do not want blacks to think for themselves and see that Democrats trap black kids in schools that don’t teach, even as top Democrats hypocritically enroll their own children in private classrooms.
Democrats’ policies impoverish blacks and lionize criminals who prey upon law-abiding blacks.
Democrats also have obliterated the U.S.-Mexico “border” and invited an estimated 5.25 million illegal aliens to invade America. Those low-cost laborers will compete against poor blacks for low-wage jobs.
Thank you, Democrats.
Democrats denounce as race traitors those blacks who condemn these outrages. That rhetoric often is vile.
MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross called Scott a “token,” a “tap dancer,” and someone whom “Harriet Tubman would have left behind.”
Revolting.
The Los Angeles Times called veteran broadcaster and GOP presidential contender Larry Elder “the black face of white supremacy.”
“Several liberal reporters called me for comment when Tim Scott announced his candidacy,” Elder told me. “They asked: ‘You and Tim Scott are both black Republicans. What distinguishes you from him?’ My response? ‘Did you reporters, in 2016, say to Trump, “You and Jeb Bush are both white Republicans. What distinguishes you from him?’” Their silence was deafening.”
The GOP cannot win. When a Republican group, gathering, or government body lacks blacks, then it’s run by white nationalists. If it includes blacks, then they’re tokens. Which is it?
Today’s Republican presidential field features two black men, a woman of Indian descent, and a man of similar background. And yet the GOP is the “Racist Party.”
The Democratic contenders are two white men and zero candidates of color. And yet theirs is the “Diversity Party.”
Please explain.
Scott’s Democratic opponents are rotten people who stir racial division for fun and profit. They deserve maximum scorn and severe social sanction.
The good news is that, slowly but surely, black voters are seeing through the Democrats’ race-mongering, shattered promises, and bald-faced lies.
In 2020, President Donald Trump won 12% of black voters (versus 8% in 2016’s exit polls); specifically, 19% of black men and 9% of black women (up from 13% and 4%, respectively, in 2016).
Amazing: One in five black men voted to reelect Trump.
Meanwhile, according to a recent ABC/Washington Post poll, Joe Biden’s black approval has cratered from 82% in January 2021 to 52% today.
Worse for Democrats: That survey found that 27% of black voters definitely or probably would vote for Trump—more than double his 2020 black support. Never mind 27%. If Trump wins even 20% of the black vote, he will be so reelected! Such a chunk of the Democrat base cannot disappear without the party sliding down a sinkhole of its own failures.
So, rather than change their evil ways, Democrats demonize Scott to put open-minded blacks back in their place.
“Shut up. Stop thinking. Do as we tell you.”
With Democrats like these, who needs white nationalists?
The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation.
Have an opinion about this article? To sound off, please email [email protected] and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the url or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.
