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A Call for Healing

A Call for Healing
Democrats Call for Healing the Country

Oct 8, 2020

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.

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