He's absolutely right.
Posted on 06/05/2024 10:13:32 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) suggested that Black families were better off during the Jim Crow era while speaking at a campaign event for former President Trump.
Donalds, who is on the shortlist for Trump’s potential vice-presidential pick, was campaigning for the former president in Philadelphia at a “Congress, Cognac, and Cigars” event aimed at garnering Black male voters, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
During the conversation, the freshman lawmaker said he is starting to see the “reinvigoration” of Black families, adding that it is “helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.” Donalds also claimed that the nuclear family — or one with a mother, father and children living under the same roof — and its values have been eroded by Democrats and lost among Black voters after they supported the party following the Civil Rights Movement, the outlet reported.
“You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more people voted conservatively,” Donalds said.
The Hill has reached out to Donalds’s office for clarification on his statement.
The Inquirer also noted that the event attendees were majority Black, but about half of those who listed addresses on the event sign-in sheet put down addresses outside of Philadelphia.
The Biden campaign has slammed Trump’s effort to mobilize Black voters.
“Donald Trump spent his adult life, and then his presidency undermining the progress Black communities fought so hard for — so it actually tracks that his campaign’s ‘Black outreach’ is going to a white neighborhood and promising to take America back to Jim Crow,” Biden-Harris spokesperson Sarafina Chitika wrote in a statement.
Chitika said Trump and his campaign are showing Black voters that they will take away freedom and economic opportunities.
“From touting his mugshot to hawking fake sneakers, Trump and his campaign have shown Black Americans how little they think of us,” she said, adding, “Black voters are about to show Trump how little they think of him, his allies, and his racist agenda this November.”
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson asked Donalds in a post on social media platform X whether he would be a member of Congress under the Jim Crow era.
“@ByronDonalds Do you think you would hold your current position under Jim Crow? Asking for the rest of Black America,” Johnson said.
During a speech on the House floor, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also criticized the Florida Republican for his “factually inaccurate statement.”
“That’s an outlandish, outrageous and out of pocket observation,” Jeffries said.
The Democratic leader argued that the Black community was not better off during a time when they could be lynched, “brutally murdered,” sexually assaulted, denied an education or the right to vote without consequences.
“How dare you make such an ignorant observation,” he said. “You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
The Democrats, as expected, are chewing up Donalds out of political expedience, but his attempt to find a silver lining to the dark cloud of segregationism is positively nuts. And segrergation was a tenet of the DEMOCRATS!
As Katie Britt did with her lame SOTU response, as Noem did with publicizing her dog shooting, so Donalds joins the list of self-disqualifying veep nominees.
Not even a question.
Whatever, he is right. Lbj was an evil sob.
He's absolutely right.
The Hill has reached out to Donalds’s office for clarification on his statement.
What could be more clearer that that?
Blacks did dress better back in those good ole days. They also knew their place in society.
He’s “right” but for all the wrong reasons. It was a very poor way to make the point that Black families were more intact in the past. It certainly wasn’t because of ‘Jim Crow’.
Put down the Kool Aid and wise up.
don’t be a loser; it’s not becoming.
Black families were stronger in that era in parts of the USA that didn't have Jim Crow.
Of course they were stronger. I lived through that time, and all the black people I knew had intact families with the father present.
Unfortunately, his message will get lost in the knee-jerk response to Democrat Jim Crow and their KKK.
No one said it was Jim Crow that made black families stronger. Don't jump to conclusions.
The Democratic leader argued that the Black community was not better off during a time when they could be lynched, “brutally murdered,” sexually assaulted, denied an education or the right to vote without consequences.
“How dare you make such an ignorant observation,” he said. “You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
All those transgressions were perpetrated by members of Mr. Jeffries' own party. The Democrat party.
Black families were not breeding armies of feral youth during that time, even though their lives were much more difficult due to actual racism, unlike the faux racism of today.
Don’t be daft like the leftists.
Hes not saying that Jim Crow was better. Hes saying black families were stronger WHILE they were being oppressed. It’d be the same thing as somebody saying that the American spirit was stronger during the depression than they are now. That’s not saying the depression was good - just that people were better during that time frame.
It should be obvious he didn’t mean Jim Crow laws were good. He was talking about the Jim Crow era, as one would refer to say, “ice cream recipes in the WW2 era,”
not attributing Jim Crow laws to aiding black families.
It is a fact that during that time period and despite the racism that black families were stronger than the single woman/ multi-babydaddy situations that are common today... as a child you were more likely to be born in a traditional two parent household then than now, when there is a better chance of being aborted or thrown in a dumpster at birth.
Like I said, lbj was an evil, evil man.
He should have just made the point that the ‘great society’ caused the problem, and left Jim Crow out of it. He set himself up for this by feeling he even had to argue against the stupid democrat statement about going back to Jim Crow.
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