GOP Sen. Tim Scott: "Stop bringing candidates with questionable track records on race before the full Senate"
Republicans have a bad reputation on race, attacking Tim Scott for opposing Thomas Farr only makes it worse
Read Senator Tim Scott’s Candid Account of Getting Stopped by Police
Only black Republican senator clobbers Iowa congressman Steve King over white-supremacy row
- South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott blasted fellow Republican Steve King, an Iowa congressman, in a Washington Post op-ed on Friday
- King mused in a New York Times article about how terms such as 'white supremacist' and 'white nationalist' came to be considered offensive
- Scott fired back, urging Republicans to condemn King lest they be accused of racism by association
- 'Some in our party wonder why Republicans are constantly accused of racism – it is because of our silence when things like this are said,' Scott wrote
Hilarious. Tim Scott is the only black Republican member of the senate.
Black Republicans Are the Only GOP Officials Who Seem Bothered by Racism
What we see here, and what we’ve seen since
Shelby County v. Holder unleashed modern voter suppression techniques, is a complete lack of Republican opposition to the ongoing drive to discourage and disenfranchise Democratic constituencies, and black Americans in particular. Moderate Republicans are just as indifferent as their most conservative colleagues. Even
supporters of criminal justice reform like Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul or Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley have little to say about dedicated efforts from co-partisans across the country to keep black people from voting.
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Cracks me up that the only black Republican in the Senate is bothered that Republicans disrespect him and other African Americans simply because they are black.
Poor Scott. Scared when he is stopped again and again by the police.
Upset that the GOP engages in voter suppression against other African Americans.
He feels he is laughed at and disrespected by Racist Republicans and called a Tom by other African Americans because he belongs to a party that wants blacks destroyed.
He's having a terrible time.
And he's right, Republicans do disrespect him. King has been in congress for 16 years saying the same racist crap. And Republicans are trying to tell Scott it's "new" and he's not having it.