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Donalds suggests Black families were stronger during Jim Crow era
The Hill ^ | 6/5/2024 | 06/05/24 12:50 PM ET

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.”


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: byrondonalds; donalds; fakenews; florida; gaslighted; jimcrow; race; trump
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To: Miami Rebel; Pelham

The black nuclear family in slavery era was four times the rate it is now

Wrap your mind around that lol

It’s the mores of the general culture

Both in antebellum and segregation eras folks overall were more Christian rules minded

Btw Jesse Peterson is my source before the sensitive were get girly


81 posted on 06/05/2024 11:06:08 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we're enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: Miami Rebel

The welfare state has definitely destroyed the black family unit. It doesn’t help that black women in the hood are dumb as bricks... Bricks with vaginas.


82 posted on 06/05/2024 11:07:05 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Jamestown1630

Generous of you.


83 posted on 06/05/2024 11:09:06 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Miami Rebel

Yes, technically right, but not the smartest thing to say.


84 posted on 06/05/2024 11:09:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jamestown1630
There was no reason at all to mention Jim Crow in that way. It was politically dumb.

Sorry you think that way. And while you're afraid of the Jim Crow era, are you also fearful of a black man mentioning the horrors of slavery? Of lynchings and killings? How about the evil that LBJ did with his Great Society?

What do all these things have in common? 

The systematic racism of democrats. And calling them out is never "politically dumb".

85 posted on 06/05/2024 11:09:44 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Miami Rebel

It wasn’t desegregation that destroyed the black family. It was the welfare state and it’s programs.


86 posted on 06/05/2024 11:11:00 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s not because we think that way. But you have to understand the majority of Americans are morons.


87 posted on 06/05/2024 11:11:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: stanne

why are you afraid of libtards and their fake media??


88 posted on 06/05/2024 11:12:43 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Miami Rebel

The statistics from 1968 don’t lie.

Welfare

Out of wedlock births

No male in the home.

Black on black crime is through the roof.

I could go on.

There’s a reason for the signs, “Don’t feed the wildlife.”

5.56mm


89 posted on 06/05/2024 11:14:41 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: Jamestown1630

I don’t think he was saying black family’s were better off “because of” Jim Crow, but that in those days most families were intact, kids had two parents, they had traditional values, day care was not a major expense, and the schools were good.


90 posted on 06/05/2024 11:15:32 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: stanne; Jamestown1630; Miami Rebel
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

Now THAT I agree with. But unfortunately it's not just democrats using mob sentiments. You, Miami Rebel, Jamestown and others have been too eager to drink the Fake News Kool Aid and can't see that you've been gaslighted.

FGS - look the the headline The Hill is using. "Suggests". Is that not like "sources say"?

Come On!

91 posted on 06/05/2024 11:15:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: spacejunkie2001

why are you afraid of libtards and their fake media??


Because they still have way too much influence. And you know how they’ll spin it, and the sheep will buy it.


92 posted on 06/05/2024 11:16:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

they are failed and failing you should treat them as such.


93 posted on 06/05/2024 11:16:59 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Responsibility2nd

No one said it was Jim Crow that made black families stronger. Don’t jump to conclusions.


It’s not folks like us who jump to conclusions. Unfortunately, folks like us are outnumbered.


94 posted on 06/05/2024 11:18:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Believe that at your peril.


95 posted on 06/05/2024 11:18:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Miami Rebel; Pelham

The black nuclear family in slavery era was four times the rate it is now

Wrap your mind around that lol

It’s the mores of the general culture

Both in antebellum and segregation eras folks overall were more Christian rules minded


96 posted on 06/05/2024 11:19:09 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we're enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: Seruzawa

That’s a sound way of putting it.


97 posted on 06/05/2024 11:19:09 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: dfwgator

That I agree with. Democrats and Republicans alike will react in horror with what Donalds said. Even though it’s true.

Just like Democrats and Republicans looked at Noem and dismissed her as a puppy killer.

Too many fricking snowflakes.


98 posted on 06/05/2024 11:20:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Know Your Audience!


99 posted on 06/05/2024 11:21:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wardaddy

Upping the ante? If Jim Crow was good, slavery was even better! The Jewish people in Germany had new highways and the trains ran on time in the 30s, so what’s there to complain about. It’s just facts.


100 posted on 06/05/2024 11:22:29 AM PDT by Fuzz
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