How Far We Have Come: Sen. Tim Scott

 

Senator Tim Scott (R, South Carolina) sums up how far we have come.  As a Black man, Senator Scott would probably have had trouble even registering to vote in South Carolina before 1964.  Senator Scott has won two general elections for Senator against white opponents in South Carolina, the Cradle of the Confederacy, where the electorate is over 60% white.  Senator Scott was one of the main authors of the Republican tax bill that President Trump signed into law at the beginning of his presidential term.  Senator Scott was also the author of the Republican police reform bill, which Democrats filibustered in order to prevent a Republican victory on police reform.

It's ridiculous to pretend that Republicans in the South are all, or even largely, racists.  The places Democrats are complaining about are all big cities with Democrats in charge.  Many of these cities have had Democrats in charge for at least 50 years.  It's time to stop the divide and conquer strategies of identity politics.

Liberals Working Towards Identity Justice, Find Trump's Comments Casablaca "Shocking"

It’s fashionable to condemn Trump’s remarks attacking Judge Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel as racist, and they are.  Trump's remarks were rude, distasteful and self-serving.  That said, liberals professing "shock" at Trump's racism have as much credibility as Claude Rains did in Casablanca when he said he was "shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"  Liberals have been using identity politics for years.  Their political control of a lot of major cities, like Detroit, Chicago, New York City and Baltimore for example, is all based on identity politics, because it certainly isn't based on low crime and good schools in those cities.

At this point, liberals are very close to identity justice.  Liberals presumed Officer Michael Wilson was guilty of the murder of Freddy Gray immediately because Officer Wilson was white and Mr. Gray was black.  This assumption persisted even after the grand jury found justifiable homicide, and even after black witnesses' testimony that the shooting was justified became public.  That's racism too, but it's politically correct racism, so it's OK?

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