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.”
Politics often requires a bit of cleverly ‘walking on eggs’ - and often much more than a ‘bit’.
You also have to reckon on how things will be perceived by others - if you genuinely want to influence them and their votes.
this country needs MEN that have balls. MTG has bigger balls than most men. For her to come out yesterday and declare the media worships George Floyd is exactly the kind of push back we need. Not some watered down, pussy footing fear that we might offend the left or say something they don’t like...blah blah blah. It’s sickening to watch to be honest.
it hasn’t worked for decades. The R party is filled with petrified losers. Time to wake up dude
Apart from the fact blacks had limited access to voting, were they more conservative under Jim Crow?
Were they more conservative under Jim Crow?
You know they were. And you know that is exactly the point Donalds made. And you know The Hill is lying when they suggested Donalds is putting Jim Crow in a positive light.
If you don't know this, then you're a fool.
He did not say under JCrow laws. He referred to it as a time period. Anytime before LBJ’s big push on laws that incentivized black family breakups.
The black family was destroyed by the Feds. Forever made the Mom dependent upon the State — so as to lock in her vote. Criminalized the Dads so they could go to jail and then not be able to vote.
To top it all, they, the Demos, fund PParenthood — with the stated goal of preferentially murdering black babies.
Sure, dude.
The time frame is what Donalds was referencing, and he is right on the facts. The black communities, and families, were far more cohesive before “civil rights” and welfare policies of the 60’s. Blacks were poor during Jim Crow, but they are still disproportionately poor today— so Hakeem Jeffries can take his hate and his lies, and stuff it.
Were they more conservative under Jim Crow?
You know they were.
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Not only do I not know they were, neither do you.
And yet you have perceived this lying hit piece by The Hill is true as it has influenced you.
I expected better of you. You don't usually knee jerk to biased liberal Fake News.
When medieval Jews were cooped up in ghettos throughout Italy and Germany, they were undoubtedly more cohesive than today.
I doubt that any of them today view that period as the good ol’ days.
Conservative had a different meaning back then. And, as crude as it sounds, Liberals were intellectuals and Jews.
I don’t think he’s “elevating” Jim Crow. I think he’s saying even during Jim Crow, Black families were stronger and the community was better off despite the open discrimination against them.
He’s not wrong.
Under Bidenomics, fast food has become a luxury.
French fries at McDonalds soared from $0.99 to $3.99.
Little Black children are going hungry under Biden.
McDonald’s new Dollar Menu meant massive price cuts for customers
By Kate Taylor, Dec 19, 2017
McDonald’s much-anticipated new 2017 value menu means massive prices cuts for customers, a roughly 15% price reduction across the chain’s full menu.
........some items are already being sold at similar prices, leading up to the launch of the new value menu. Happy Meals for kids — are going to have their prices slashed by up to 25%.
<><>The $1 items include the Sausage Burrito, McChicken, and Cheeseburger.
<><>$2 Items include Buttermilk Crispy Tenders, Bacon McDouble, and McCafé beverages,
<><>Happy Meals and Triple Cheeseburgers will cost $3.
While the McPick 2 has helped drive sales over the past year, a new national Dollar Menu is a major move to win over customers looking for value.
The company is throwing a huge amount of weight behind the effort, increasing its already massive national advertising budget by 20% starting in 2018.
You know they were.
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Not only do I not know they were, neither do you.
How about Thomas Sowell. Is he good enough of an expert witness for you? He lived through Jim Crow and he has plenty to say about how black familes were better off.
Read his works and other historians who can educate and inform you. And FGS - stop listening to the lies of The Hill.
I think that was sarcasm...
It’s not a suggestion
It’s a fact
I’m knee-jerking at what Donalds said himself. There was no reason at all to mention Jim Crow in that way. It was politically dumb.
“ 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.”
Again, I listed to Donald’s’ video.
“ How is he a maroon? How is mentioning an evil Democrat system of injustice a bad reflection on Trump or Donalds?”
You don’t talk to many democrats do you. I hear them. They go by mob sentiment period. Sound bites that publications like the hill use
They have zero sense of history. Zero.
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