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.”
That’s exactly what we should do, because it’s exactly what happened.
Whoops, just reread and I see they did!
Jim Crow happened in places governed by Democrats. I don’t know why Republicans do not have a list that they recite like a mantra. Democrats were in power for slavery, for the KKK, for Jim Crow, for segregation. The south was Democrat back in those days.
I listened to the video. His explanation
He doesn’t know to not say Jim Crow when campaigning ritght now as a Trump ally?
He’s a maroon.
I think it was clumsy and politically inept. He failed to realize how this would be received and used against him and Trump.
Our favorite Obama minime, Hakeem Jeffries, couldn’t help himself, he had to go to the well of the House during one-minute speeches and blast Donalds for making the Jim Crow reference.
Remember the Tulsa Race Massacre, on Memorial Day weekend in the 1920s? 39 dead, 26 black, 13 white. Last week in Chicago, 15 dead—and that’s about what happens every week in Chicago and practically every other metropolis, whereas the Race Massacre happened once and in one place. If you are a black man and want to stay alive, you’re better off living 100 years ago in the middle of Jim Crow than you are living today in any American city. That doesn’t make Jim Crow right; it does make Martin Luther King, Jr, right, when he wanted his children judged by the content of their character.
The JFK Assassination was the moment that everything shifted left. Ironically, some on the far right were glad. They would not have been glad if they could have seen what was coming. Reagan stopped it for a while, but then it went full speed.
so basically, we should all cower and walk on egg shells due to the left’s broad list of “offenses” they claim we make...
I say, put on your big boy pants and quit trying to please the enemy. Screw them.
Yeah, that’s right, jump on a great American Firster because of something the Hill said. Step aside junior, us big boys will fight the left.
This conversation has jumped the rails.
You can say that families were weakened by the Great Society and subsequent liberal social engineering without elevating Jim Crow as a golden age for black America.
Equal rights and civil rights are severable from the expanded welfare systems that were contemporaneous. When Donalds spoke of black voters being more conservative back in the day, that’s a cruel joke given the fact black voters were so massively suppressed during that period.
Because they were.
Not because of Jim Crow and I’m sure he wasn’t claiming that was the reason.
The great Thomas Sowell who was raised in segregated North Carolina and Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s has expressed similar views.
oh look, one of the retarded resident leftists has shown up to bask a solid conservative.
go away putz
“We already have a n$$$$r mayor we don’t need another n&&&%r big shot.” - Joe Biden, 1985 on the floor of the senate.
No. - he is staring that the policy that democrats went to after ‘Jim Crowe’ was even more destructive !
No, it hasn’t jumped the rails, you don’t get to thread police.
Countdown to “..Allow me to revise and clarify my statements.
Various parties are deliberately attempting to muddy up my message.”
Donalds won’t do that.
How is he a maroon? How is mentioning an evil Democrat system of injustice a bad reflection on Trump or Donalds?
Once again, we have FReepers falling for the gaslighting tactics of The Hill.
First off, Jim Crow is a wholly owned product of the Democrat Party, along with slavery, the Klan, the internment of Japanese, the blocking of Civil rights, the Vietnam War, the third trimester abortion and the allowing of 10 million illegals to invade the nation.
Not taking their lectures.
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