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 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
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.
Generous of you.
Yes, technically right, but not the smartest thing to say.
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".
It wasn’t desegregation that destroyed the black family. It was the welfare state and it’s programs.
It’s not because we think that way. But you have to understand the majority of Americans are morons.
why are you afraid of libtards and their fake media??
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
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.
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!
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.
they are failed and failing you should treat them as such.
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.
Believe that at your peril.
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
That’s a sound way of putting it.
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.
Know Your Audience!
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.
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