Posted on 07/15/2016 9:08:38 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
Tim Scott of South Carolina is the only black Republican in the United States Senate. This week, moved by police killings of Eric Garner, Walter Scott, and Philando Castile, he rose to the floor to deliver a moving speech about his personal history being stopped by law-enforcement officers for what amounted to driving while black. “While I thank God that I have not endured bodily harm,” he declared, “I have felt the pressure applied by the scales of justice when they are slanted. I have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness, and the humiliation that comes from feeling that you are being targeted for nothing more than being just yourself.
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So you have nothing bad to say about him.
I got hassled by the police...back in my teenage punk days. They pulled me over in my dented red primered ‘66 Mustang with holes in the exhaust and hassled me about the inspection sticker. It was so humiliating to have friends yell and blow the horn as they drove past.
I never said that I did. My comment referred to your blanket assertion that any criticism of him was racist.
Well, I still haven’t seen any criticism of him other than he shouldn’t complain about cops stopping him.
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