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.”
Again, your only solution is to just let it work itself out.
THAT is what I call immoral and uncaring. You can’t even suggest another kind of movement - just ‘let it work itself out’.
Good grief. I suspect you wouldn’t have liked *any* Civil Rights movement.
Its theatrics…. The point is things are bad for blacks right now. He is black so he can get away with it.
I'll add this:
You can’t even suggest another kind of movement
I am strongly distrusting of "movements" generally. They're not spontaneous, they're run by dishonest people, and they never stop. And that is why your precious "civil" "rights" "movement" INEVITABLY led to the horrors we face today.
Or since you're "suspecting" things about me ...
Maybe I can "suspect" things about YOU ... If I were inclined to do so, I might "suspect" that you personally benefit from the "Diversity Equity Inclusion" tyranny.
If I were inclined to "suspect" things about people ...
But I'm not, so you're safe.
The American Revolution was a part of a ‘Movement’. It was called The Enlightenment.
Dr Sowell in his book - Discrimination and Disparities kind of disagrees with you. Removing discriminatory laws that blocked access to schools, housing, professions, etc. was the right thing to do. Such laws were fundamentally unconstitutional anyway and needed to be seen as such. However, anything more than that was unnecessary. In that book he talks about the power of people to “sort things out” on their own. Even in the bad Jim Crow days and even to some extent pre-Civil War blacks were sorting their lives out and advancing on their own. They might have developed more of their own institutions like Jews did when the Ivies would let them in or restricted access. Unfortunately, politicians and activists got involved and tried to engineer society - e.g., LBJ’s Great Society. Like all plans to create Utopia it did more damage then the actual problem. We now see “government help” destroying rural Merica.
LOL!!!
First, You’re just digging a deeper hole. I’m no fan of the atheist philosophies that are mistakenly called an “enlightenment”. That “enlightenment” achieved full flower in France between 1789 and 1799.
Second, the “enlightenment” was not a “movement” in the same sense as the carefully orchestrated program of agitation and rioting that we’re talking about.
Actions have consequences. The actions of various “activists”, agitators, and rioters back in the 1950s and 1960s INEVITABLY led to the present-day horrors I have been pointing out to you.
Very astute.
There are certainly good, necessary laws which should remain in place.
As a sort of sweeping generalization, though, I have observed that:
People who are agitating for a new law to be passed are generally causing trouble.
People who are agitating to repeal an old law are generally trying to advance liberty.
Agree!
Typo:
America = America
Never mind. I’m convinced that you would have been a Loyalist during the Revolution.
And you’d apparently be unbothered now, if Civil Rights for Black people had never yet been ‘worked out’.
God forbid that you should ever be part of a ‘movement’ to change anything!
Comparing the holocaust and European hegemony by force with north American slavery and segregation is an affront to Jews and others
Despite the opiate lure virtue signaling has for so many today
LOL!!!
You’ve gone from “suspecting” to being “convinced”.
If I were inclined to being “convinced” of things about other people, based on brief internet conversations, I’d be “convinced” that you absolutely DO benefit, yugely, from “Diversity Equity Inclusion”. See how that works?
But I’m not so inclined.
I read your tagline ... then I looked up Alina Habba.
I ... ummm ... admire her mind.
Excellent analogy. Democrats are twisting what he said.
Couple things.
One. I wasn’t referring to the Holocaust, but the laws passed in the 30s , like the Nuremberg laws, that targeted an ethnic group by law, taking away basic human rights.
Second, how is it an affront to Jews, or anyone else, to make such a comparison? American Jews were very notable supporters of the American civil rights movement.
Third, how is being against all laws of this kind which dehumanize people considered virtue signaling? What virtue is there in not opposing them?
Because of the lack of steady, well-paid jobs, relatively undistinguished positions, such as those with the Pullman Porter or as hotel doorman, became prestigious positions in black communities in the North. The expansion of railroads meant that they recruited in the South for laborers, and tens of thousands of blacks moved North to work with the Pennsylvania Railroad, for example, during the period of the Great Migration.
-PJ
No one said it was Jim Crow that made black families stronger. Don't jump to conclusions.
That is exactly what the media will do, over and over. It will be a new anti-Trump talking point.
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs probably did more damage to black family formation than anything that preceded it.
The Feel Good logic of liberal politics never worries about unintended consequences. The Great Society funded programs that removed the hardships of single motherhood. Teen girls who got pregnant also got a paycheck from various government agencies.
So why get married? This has become so ingrained in American culture that both parties just take it for granted, as if things were always this way.
From Politico: (watch what happens next. This guy was on a VP wish list)
The remarks prompted a blitz of attacks from Biden allies, including the top House Democrat on Wednesday.
“It has come to my attention that a so-called leader has made the factually inaccurate statement that Black folks were better off during Jim Crow,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in remarks on the House floor, listing other aspects of that era — from lynching to the suppression of the Black vote. “How dare you make such an ignorant observation? You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
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