5/8/14, "Rep. Clyburn Complains That GOP Sen. Tim Scott Doesn’t Vote His Color," Daily Caller, Neil Munro
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“If you call progress electing a person with the pigmentation that he has, who votes against the interest and aspirations of 95 percent of the black people in South Carolina, then I guess that’s progress,” he told the Post.
Clyburn’s argument was featured in a generally favorable article about Scott’s practice of briefly working alongside his constituents in South Carolina without revealing his identity.
The comment from Clyburn, age 73, stands in contrast to a comment from James Copeland, who recently worked alongside Scott at a Goodwill store in Greenville, S.C. When Copeland — an African-American — was told of Scott’s identity, he responded positively.
“Oh, wow, I thought he was just some guy off the street,” he said, according to the Post. “He was really speaking on my level. I felt like I can relate to him. I’d vote for him. Absolutely,” said Copeland.
The Daily Caller asked Clyburn’s press aide, Amanda Loveday, for a comment. She did not respond.
Clyburn is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. The DC asked press aides for House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi if she would demand an apology from Clyburn. The aides did not respond....
Clyburn’s comment follows his refusal to condemn racial comments from another Democratic legislator, Rep. Bennie Thompson, who described Justice Clarence Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.”
The judge “doesn’t like being black,” Thompson said during an interview on a Mississippi radio station. The judge is also an “Uncle Tom,” said Thompson, using a derisive term for slaves who whipped other slaves at the behest of white masters.
“The people that I represent, for the most part, have a real issue with those decisions — voter ID, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act — all those issues are very important and for someone in the court who’s African-American and not sensitive to that is a real problem,” Thompson told CNN about Thomas’s legal decisions."...
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5/6/14, "The undercover senator: Tim Scott goes anecdote-shopping in South Carolina," Washington Post, Ben Terris
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A racist USA Today columnist thinks it's fine that Sen. Tim Scott (R) wasn't invited to speak at 2013 MLK Day event:
8/28/13, "CNN Guest: Why Should ‘Appointed’ Sen. Tim Scott Have Been Invited to MLK Anniversary?" MediaIte, Noah Rothman
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| DeWayne Wickham |
A discussion about the impact of the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech anniversary event veered into politics when the guests began to wonder why so few Republicans attended the event and none spoke....
When asked why the only sitting black senator in the upper chamber of Congress was also not in attendance, USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham said there was no real reason for him to be there in the first place.
“And he should have been invited why?” Wickham asked. “He should have been invited to speak for what reason?”
“He’s one of 50 Senators,” Wickham said. “And he’s appointed not elected.”
Scott said that he was not invited to speak, but added that the day should be about remembering MLK and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). And there are 100 U.S. Senators."...
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Senator Tim Scott was elected twice to the US House of Representatives from a former slave state and is descended from slaves. He grew up poor, was raised by a black single mother, didn't attend an elite private school in Hawaii thanks to his white grandparents pulling strings, and as an adult started his own business and employed people. As Senator Scott said, the day was for Dr. King, Rep. John Lewis, and many others.
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8/28/13, "Sen. Tim Scott wasn’t invited to event commemorating MLK march on Washington," Washington Examiner, Joel Gehrke
"Sen. Tim Scott, R.-S.C., the only African American serving in the United States Senate, wasn't invited to the event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's march on Washington, though a host of Democratic luminaries spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
“Senator Scott was not invited to speak at the event,” Greg Blair, a spokesman for the South Carolina lawmaker, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “The senator believes today is a day to remember the extraordinary accomplishments and sacrifices of Dr. King, Congressman John Lewis, and an entire generation of black leaders. Today’s anniversary should simply serve as an opportunity to reflect upon how their actions moved our country forward in a remarkable way.”
The event organizers didn't completely exclude Republicans from the event — former President George W. Bush, for instance, received an invitation, but he couldn't attend as he is recovering from surgery — but the slate of speakers was filled with names such as former President Clinton, Gov. Martin O'Malley, D-Md., Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx and others.
President Obama was the keynote speaker of the event, of course, which is held in honor of the achievements of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders. Wouldn't it have made sense to have the first black president joined by the first black senator from South Carolina, which was a Jim Crow state when the original march on Washington took place?
The Washington Examiner contacted MLK Dream 50 to ask why Scott wasn’t invited, but didn’t hear back in time for publication."
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Senator Tim Scott began in elective office in 1995, was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2010 and re-elected in 2012:
12/21/12, "Tim Scott: Meet the New Senator From South Carolina," Stephen Moore, member of Wall St. Journal editorial board
"Growing up in North Charleston, he attended a mostly white but desegregated high school and was elected president of the senior class. After graduating from Charleston Southern University in 1988, he went into the insurance business and shortly thereafter hung out his own shingle as Tim Scott Allstate, which grew to 3,000 customers. He was elected to state offices beginning in 1995, then in 2010—the year of the tea party—he ran for Congress and defeated Strom Thurmond's son. In the House, his first act was to sponsor a bill to overturn ObamaCare.
Despite his storybook rise—"I never even imagined being in the United States Senate, it was never part of the plan"—Mr. Scott has felt the personal sting of racism and has had doors shut on him. In high school and college he was bullied and "sometimes I got hate-filled notes with racial slurs attached to my locker."
It was made worse, he recalls, because "I was a kind of an oddball. Had three pair of pants and two pair of shoes. And you know, you rotate them and you got made fun of. I had buck teeth, they were going in two different directions. It was a challenging time." The barriers, he is convinced, "only made my will to succeed even stronger."
The two guiding influences of his life have been his mother, who always worked two jobs ("I'm living her American dream," he says proudly) and the man he calls "my mentor," John Moniz, a white Christian and one of the first franchise owners of Chick-fil-A restaurants. "He took me under his wing and for three or four years he was telling me that as a poor kid in North Charleston, that I could think my way out of poverty. I didn't have to play football. I didn't have to become an entertainer."...
Then he tells a story: "I put together a group of mostly black pastors and thinkers in the new part of my district, near Hilton Head. I told them, 'I don't expect you to vote for me in November. I don't know that you will vote for me ever. But we're going to start a relationship today. And it's not about the election. It's about life. It's about changing the course of history for kids who are coming behind us.' " He notes that one of the pastors in the meeting called him after his appointment to the Senate to celebrate the news."...
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In 2010 then Rep. Tim Scott condemned NAACP for labeling the Tea Party racist. Scott's original link is inactive but the statement remains elsewhere on the internet. Below, NAACP attempts to deny its statements but Politico says they really did claim TP was racist:
7/13/2010, "Tim Scott Statement on NAACP Resolution Condemning Tea Party as “Racist”"
"Tim Scott, Republican candidate for Congress in South Carolina’s First Congressional District, issued the following statement today:
“I understand that the NAACP, at its annual conference in Kansas City, will vote today on a resolution condemning the Tea Party movement as “racist”. I believe that the NAACP is making a grave mistake in stereotyping a diverse group of Americans who care deeply about their country and who contribute their time, energy and resources to make a difference.”
“As I campaign in South Carolina, I participate in numerous events sponsored by the Tea Party, 9/12, Patriot, and other like-minded groups, and I have had the opportunity to get to know many of the men and women who make up these energetic grassroots organizations.
Americans need to know that the Tea Party is a color-blind movement that has principled differences with many of the leaders in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans. Their aim is to support the strongest candidates – regardless of color or background – who will fight to return our country to its Constitutional roots of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets.”"
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7/15/10, "NAACP: Never called tea party 'racist'," Politico, Andy Barr
"NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party "racist."
The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City, Mo., alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.
A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as “racist,” but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.
“We aren’t saying that the tea party is racist,” Jealous said. “What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly ... and to call out when they see those things on those signs.”...
Asked about (then Rep. Tim) Scott’s criticism, Jealous said that “Tim was making a false argument.”
“We weren’t calling anyone racist,” he said. “We’ve just got to speak up and say something.”
“If there are not violent elements in the tea party, then why are we getting death threats?” he asked. “I’d ask the tea party to get rid of them.”"
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Obama also said TP was racist. In 2010 Obama said "race was probably a key" motivation in the Tea Party movement:
3/2/2011, "Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests," USNews.com, Kenneth T. Walsh
page 3, "But Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent "Tea Party" movement that was then surging across the country....
A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to "take back" their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn't dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a "subterranean agenda" in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it."...
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