White People Love Tim Scott For Downplaying Racism: Polls

U.S. Senator and Republican 2024 presidential hopeful Tim Scott speaks throughout his Truthful Facet Chat on the Iowa State Truthful in Des Moines, Iowa, on August 15, 2023. | Supply: STEFANI REYNOLDS / Getty

Here’s a easy reality: White conservatives love Black conservatives as a result of Black conservatives say all white people-friendly issues. There’s actually no different motive. There’s by no means any sort of coverage or ideological viewpoint Black Republican officers and candidates maintain that units them aside from the remainder of the GOP. They’re all the time very generic by way of that. As a lot as they love to think about themselves “free thinkers” as a result of they vote and look at racism in a different way than most Black folks, there’s by no means something authentic about how they suppose.

Not way back, “free thinkers” Jason Whitlock and Larry Elder sat down collectively so Whitlock might discuss how he’s “not a conservative” however a “MAGA man”—which suggests he’s a so-called non-conservative who simply occurs to share each single widespread right-wing viewpoint—whereas Elder erroneously claimed he was blackballed from the primary GOP main debate for, effectively, sharing actually each widespread GOP speaking level.

THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT SPECIAL OR EVEN REMOTELY UNIQUE!! However white folks positive love them.

Anyway, let’s discuss Tim Scott.

Lately, the one Black Republican presidential hopeful, and South Carolina’s solely Black senator, spoke in Iowa and informed a crowd of Black friend-needy Caucasians that he primarily doesn’t see colour—a closeted racist’s favourite affirmation.

From the Related Press:

“We don’t have Black poverty or white poverty. Now we have poverty,” he informed an all-white viewers Thursday in Oskaloosa after being requested about race. He earlier had spoken about his poor Southern upbringing and his late grandfather, born into Jim Crow-era South Carolina.

“The brilliance of this nation is that we maintain shifting ahead, although there are many forces who need us to suppose the issue is that somebody doesn’t seem like you,” Scott stated.

It’s superb the way in which a Black conservative can invoke Jim Crow America out of 1 facet of his face whereas repeatedly claiming “America shouldn’t be a racist nation” out of the opposite. However what else ought to one count on from the man who doesn’t suppose racism in America is actual however has in contrast the remedy of Republicans to racism? However, once more, his message isn’t for us, it’s for the white conservatives who love to listen to white nationalism come from Black mouths. They usually’re receiving that message loud and clear.

Extra from AP:

Scott has been criticized by students who say his rejection of systemic racism, particularly in mild of the latest racist killings in Florida, performs down bigger social and political obstacles going through African Individuals.

However dozens of Iowa Republicans interviewed over the previous a number of months say his place, widespread in the 2024 GOP area, resonates extra coming from Scott than from others.

“It undoubtedly means extra from him,” stated Mary Rozenboom, a 77-year-old retired hospital worker from Oskaloosa who’s white. “He’s saying, ‘That is me. I’m Black. However I succeeded as a result of I labored laborious, and people alternatives stay in America.’”

You see what I’m speaking about? Right here’s a 77-year-old white lady—sufficiently old to recollect Jim Crow as clearly as she remembers what highschool she went to—and it’s nonetheless necessary to her to have a Black individual validate her delusions about her beloved America not being based and maintained on a tradition of racism.

Additionally, right here’s a reality: There are many profitable Black individuals who know that racism continues to be alive and effectively in America. The truth is, most Black folks aren’t arguing that systemic racism fully prevents Black folks from changing into profitable. We merely argue that it’s a hindrance and a roadblock white folks don’t encounter.

Right here’s one other reality: Nearly each research, ballot and survey on what Individuals take into consideration race exhibits that the overwhelming majority of Black folks—no matter class, schooling and stage of success—imagine racism continues to be a significant downside in America. This implies white conservatives like Rozenboom are dismissing the testimonies and lived experiences of thousands and thousands of Black folks throughout America in favor of the comparatively few who’re saying the issues they wish to be stated.

Extra from AP:

Amongst voters for Republican candidates within the 2022 midterm elections, simply 18% stated racism is a really major problem in U.S. society, in contrast with 61% of voters for Democratic candidates, in line with AP VoteCast knowledge.

“He’s a Black man who rejects the concept of systemic racism, which may be very widespread in Republican circles,” stated Christine Matthews, a nationwide political pollster who has labored for Republican candidates. “It completely resonates extra.”

The GOP wants folks like Tim Scott as a result of Republicans are uninterested in being often called the “outdated white celebration” whereas refusing to let go of their outdated white ideology. They wish to have their cake and eat it too, and for that, they want the Black conservatives to serve the desk they so desperately desire a seat at.

It truly is that easy.