Posted on 07/29/2023 3:57:38 AM PDT by zeestephen
U.S. Senator Tim Scott, the highest-profile Black candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential race, has blasted his rival Ron DeSantis, Florida's governor, over the state's newly adopted Black history curriculum, saying "there's no silver lining" in slavery...Scott joined a growing chorus of critics of Florida's new standards that require public school students to be taught that some slaves developed skills that "could be applied for their personal benefit."
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whites would be aghast at a white person promoting white interests, yet every other race is fully on board with unifying by their race and trying to help out their own race at the expense of others. La raza, blacks, etc. I guess time will tell if whites every come together, because despite libtards believing in the diversity fairy, it simply does not exist and other races are never going to fall in line with their communist utopian dreams.
Can Reuters be trusted to publish the truth?
Sure, how would you like to be someone else’s property? Like you were a horse or a dog?
Yet Tim Scott has been suggested on these boards as a preferred candidate for VP. Tim has racial issues that disqualify him as a President for All Americans or a person able to rise above prejudice.
President Trump meet with him and championed Scott’s Opportunity Zones, enacting them as part of through Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These zones empowered the governors of each state to designate economically-distressed communities that were ripe for investment and tie them to a brand new federal tax incentive to driving billions of dollars of private investment into states.
Nevertheless Scott took many opportunities to pie on criticizing Trump and stood aside or joined in when Trump was attacked.
It is unclear whether this behavior was engendered by longstanding Presidential ambitions. There appear to be any number of under qualified but ambitious hyenas waiting in the wings. “Why not me?” “It’s my turn”
What is missing from these folks is any hint that it is the Country first and the service I can do, rather that what I could gain or ambition.
President Trump was a reluctant candidate. He knew what it would cost him but as he watched the Country flounder he knew he could no longer stand aside. Once he committed he committed fully.
Scott’s right.
I already tell all the white men I work with to do the bare minimum and only help other white men.
This is a direct response to ostracizing us.
Purposely not hiring and promoting us…
How’s military recruiting going? Especially pilots and combat MOS duties.
Good luck.
And let’s not forget the African tribes who initially enslaved other Africans for sale to the slavers transporting them as a commodity to North and South America and to the Muslims of the Mideast.
One Tribe in particular comes to mind - the Kenyan tribe of Obama’s ancestors captured other Africans and sold them to the slavers.
Well, heck, go back to the country of your ancestors, then.
After the slaves were emancipated, is it true or false that some had skills that were needed in the labor marketplace?
Is Tim Scott saying that this is FALSE?
Or is Tim Scott just mindlessly attacking one of his rivals, Ron DeSantis?
If the statement that some slaves did have skills, then how would Tim Scott address the historical fact that some slaves developed skills that were applied for personal benefit?
Does Tim Scott want that historical fact removed for the history of slavery in this country?
Couple of typos..pile on not pie on.
as part of through Trump’s Tax cuts...as part of
Once all the races don’t have a white majority to beat up and bully, it’ll be interesting to see how they interact. Hispanics for the most part can’t stand blacks, and asians same with blacks.
1950s America just wasn’t good enough, despite being the absolute peak of American civilization. Ted Kennedy, LBJ, and now pretty much every American has been brainwashed into dishonoring their ancestors by blasting the 1950s as a “horrible” time because it was too white.
Instead of Honoring their Fathers and Mothers as God commanded, the open borders diversity idol worshippers chose to kill off their heritage and their ancestors’ memories as much as possible, and now we all have to suffer because of it. Mike Lee, who worships a satanic false god, in addition to worshipping diversity, demands more genocide / colonization by letting in 500 million Indians “because muh labor shortage” for big corporate donors.
It all started with letting women vote.
Ruins every country.
Ironically, blacks have the most to lose from open borders / diversity.
Tim Scott chooses BLM and Democrat talking points over truth. Tim endorses PC speak.
Tim Scott is my disappearing US Senator. If elected President, he will become my disappearing US President.
“Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.” - Muhammad Ali
His political record prior to his current was always center leaning left. He just can’t escape.
Nobody in their right mind would assert it is better to be a slave than to be free.
But because something is intrinsically bad, that does not mean a person cannot and will not find benefit in it.
Cancer is a terrible thing. But I work in medicine, and I have heard multiple times from people that cancer was the best thing that ever happened to them, and they wouldn't trade the experience.
That doesn't make sense, until one realizes that hardship can often shape a person, depending on their constitution, in positive ways they could have never have developed on their own without that hardship.
You hear this about men who have fought in combat. You hear it from people who have had cancer. You hear it from people who had a child with Down's syndrome or other disability. You hear it from people who lost everything in a natural disaster, that even though the experience was terrible, what they learned from it (for their own part) surpassed the hardship and rendered it a valuable experience.
Why would slavery be any different? Just because someone recognizes that being a slave shaped someone in positive ways due to the terrible hardship of slavery does not mean that person supports slavery.
Or cancer.
Or combat.
Or children with disabilities.
But...there is one more thing that should be said about this.
Even though the worst things that can happen to a person can have positive effects in individuals who grew stronger from fighting that adversity, it is less likely to happen when someone is whispering constantly in their ear: "You are a victim. You have been treated unjustly. You cannot look out for yourself because of this adversity. You aren't as capable because you were treated in this way. You need the help of others at every juncture in life to succeed."
This is what American blacks have been subjected to for going on two centuries. It is just as horrible as slavery, because that treatment endorses a bondage of the spirit, if not a bondage of the person all over again.
And that subjection of blacks to that terrible injustice is the sole province of the same people who made them physical slaves to begin with, and still fight to this day to keep them in slavery, even though it is more a bondage of vote selection and less a bondage of the physical person...although that happens too, even if the chains and bars are not as easily seen.
Those people doing this to them, to this day, are Democrats.
I said that ..to emphasize how ridiculous it is. No one in America is a slave..and hasn’t been for over 150 years. At some point ..like a 20 something living at home...you have to get out of the house and make it on your own...whatever disadvantages you may have or have had.
Were at a time in history where we are excusing some fairly atrocious acts by some .. in the name of some kind of distorted justice?
There are millions of people who have overcome horrific circumstances..and made their own silver lining. black or otherwise. There were black graduating from college ..long before affirmative action. Back in the early 1800s.. but now they are unable too?
“there’s no silver lining” in slavery...Scott joined a growing chorus of critics of Florida’s new standards that require public school students to be taught that some slaves developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
So that means during 400 years (so they claim) of slavery that slaves learned absolutely nothing and developed zero skills?
This does not provide an argument in support of slavery. In fact, the development of useful skills among the slaves contradicted and undermined pro-slavery ideology in the Old South because it demonstrated that a substantial number of slaves were skilled enough to be capable of supporting themselves and their families in freedom. That being so, the moral and practical justifications for slavery were being worn thin by the experience of slavery.
Oddly, the critics of the Florida history standards are actually echoing the arguments of slavery advocates. Their claim was that slavery was necessary because black slaves were an inferior type of human, incapable of learning the skills and attitudes to support themselves and their families in freedom.
Is that what you believe, Senator Scott? If not, then why do you disparage the remarkable skills and energy of some exceptional slaves? I hope that Senator Scott is simply using a cudgel conveniently offered by the Left to bash a rival. I would hate to think that he is engaging in reflexive race-baiting.
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