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Tim Scott had the chance to address the systemic racism he has admitted on the senate floor that exists but he played the punk role.
The republicans play the white victimhood card at every chance. The white victimhood card is when you whine about people saying all whites are racist when a person of color talks about systemic or institutional racism. It is the same victimhood that makes conservatives whine about how America is not a racist country.
Right wing whites want to deny that racism exists and try bullying anyone who disputes them. I am black, racism exists in America. Individual and systemic. Biden is not going to say this is a racist country, he's a politician and knows he will lose white voters if he does, but he does not deny the fact that systemic racism IS a problem in this country and that makes him a better man than Tim Scott. Because Biden is a 78 year old white man, he could do as trump, William Barr and Lndsay Graham, rest on his advantage and do nothing while declaring that systemic racism does not exist. But he didn't.
But Tim Scott.
Scott had the opportunity to stand before the nation and express his experience as a black man, instead he was the puppet. He had the chance to grab leadership, he had the chance to make blacks look seriously at the republican party, he had the chance to put his name in the hat with the great black republicans like Frederick Douglass, but he failed.
And miserably.
The republicans play the white victimhood card at every chance. The white victimhood card is when you whine about people saying all whites are racist when a person of color talks about systemic or institutional racism. It is the same victimhood that makes conservatives whine about how America is not a racist country.
Right wing whites want to deny that racism exists and try bullying anyone who disputes them. I am black, racism exists in America. Individual and systemic. Biden is not going to say this is a racist country, he's a politician and knows he will lose white voters if he does, but he does not deny the fact that systemic racism IS a problem in this country and that makes him a better man than Tim Scott. Because Biden is a 78 year old white man, he could do as trump, William Barr and Lndsay Graham, rest on his advantage and do nothing while declaring that systemic racism does not exist. But he didn't.
But Tim Scott.
Scott had the opportunity to stand before the nation and express his experience as a black man, instead he was the puppet. He had the chance to grab leadership, he had the chance to make blacks look seriously at the republican party, he had the chance to put his name in the hat with the great black republicans like Frederick Douglass, but he failed.
And miserably.